/Polygraph
Instead of attempting to launch a client-services business or a Paul-Graham'ian startup, I'm playing the long-con and shipping a web journal/magazine for data viz. I'm aggressively close to publishing a few projects by the end of the month, all focused on music and data, which will essentially serve as the first issue.
/Links
I’ve been thinking a lot about data viz content that could evolve into a (capital P) Product. This example from the NY Times is a perfect example...A 3-D View of a Chart That Predicts The Economic Future: The Yield Curve. I could totally see a financial software company buying this software, or potentially spinning out a team to focus on building features to complement it, eventually packaging the viz as a paid service/product.
Quartz launched a new channel for their charts and data viz: Atlas. Sadly, it’s still images (wtf!). Yet it’s not all too different from the several sites trying to build a home for data viz, notably dadaviz and Plotly.
Turns out that another awesome home for data viz, Many Eyes by IBM, is shutting down :(
There’s a parameterized, explorable visualization of K-12 Department of Education statistics. Too bad it’s made with Tableau and semi-unusable from a UI, UX, and speed perspective. When is someone going to make a proper Tableau for web content?
There’s a great podcast on Data Viz called Data Stories. Check out the latest one from Amanda Cox (NY Times Graphics Editor).
Via Kottke.org, “From designer Karl Sluis, a list of nine great book about information visualization not written by Edward Tufte.” They’re still print books though – so nothing interactive here... Link.
Many media sites have tried to pull this off: fixed graph and scroll-triggered prose/charting storytelling. This may be the best example that I’ve seen, using global warming data. The line chart’s path also cleverly animates in while the x-axis’s position is highlighted. Link.
Instead of making a really long horizontal bar-chart, Bloomberg uses a clever mouse-over zoom to create a sort-of accordion effect. The data, civil rights investigations, is also pretty compelling. Link.
The WSJ transposes a stock-chart’s x-axis to the window’s scroll-position. Kinda genius: “Flash Crash' a Perfect Storm for Markets.” Link.
This isn’t data viz, but Bloomberg’s design department can’t stop won’t stop. Link.
This might be the most impressive example of a node-link diagram on the Internet via none other than the NY Times. I suspect that Palantir’s software does something similar to help the CIA catch terrorists. Link.
