Archive for the ‘Visual Analytics’ Category
Dancing with data
The Economist has an interesting article about data visualization guru Hans Rosling. I will recommend everyone to read the whole story. In this article Dr Rosling points out that reluctance of big institutions to share the data, Most public data [...]
Put some breathe life in your papers with clever visualization
I often screen papers for my reading list based on their illustration appeal. I know this may be bit strange for the people who judge the papers simply based on their abstracts or conclusion section. But trust me it works [...]
Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations with Isocontours over Existing Visualizations
Christopher Collins has developed this new visualization technique which can reveal interesting set relations in data using isocontours over existing visualizations. Following is the abstract of the Bubble Sets paper accepted in InfoVis ’09 While many data sets contain multiple [...]
Is Business Intelligence too sexy?
Business Intelligence (BI) is facing a significant challenge according to one of the industry’s leading thinkers and its ‘sexiness’ is causing the problem. Lecturer in Information Technology at Monash University, Mr. Peter O’Donnell suggests that major BI software vendors’ marketing [...]
Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics
Featuring DynaVis, a visualization system featuring animated data graphics. Animating from a scatter plot to a bar chart (replacing a numerical dimension with a categorical dimension). The top path directly interpolates between the starting and ending states. The bottom path [...]
Benefits of data visualization are self-evident
Stephen Few of Visual Business Intelligence recently asked about true Stories related to the benefits of data visualization where data visualization has helped to gain important insights from scratch, I need real stories from you who use data visualization to [...]
Haskell for Bioinformatics
Ketil Malde has developed a functional-flavored bioinformatics library in Haskell for building bioinformatics related tools and utilities. As of now library includes a collection of data structures and algorithms, and most of the features are stable, robust, and well-documented. A [...]
Why do you believe what you believe
An interesting post by Benjamin Wiederkehr at datavisualization blog about flash based application My Evidence. My Evidence is hosted by Exploratorium, Museum of science art and human perception examines the source of our knowledge and understanding about different ideas. For [...]
Importance of Color Palettes in Data Visualization
Here is an interesting post by Michael E. Driscoll at Data Evolution blog about importance of color in data visualization and how it has been ignored most of the time. Michael writes Color is one of the most abused and [...]
Why Can’t We See What Is There To Be Seen?
This post basically highlights the book Psychology of Intelligence Analysis written by Richards J. Heuer (book is freely available for download from here). If your job demands data analysis and decision making, or you work with visual analytics then this [...]
