Exploring ways to display data 413 Data Visualization 2012-02-09T04:03:42 Neal Pointer barry.david.adams@googlemail.com FlowingData 2012-02-07T10:39:30

Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, or Weave for short, is open source software intended for flexible visualization. Weave (BETA 1.0) …

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Filled contour plots are useful for looking at density across two dimensions and are often used to visualize geographic data. It's straightforward to make them in R — once you get your data in the right format, that is.

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Data science has been covered at length during the past couple of years, and we tend to think of it …

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Background Trafford Council has been an advocate of open data since May 2010 when the council took the decision to create an open data page on its website to allow access to numerous data it collects. This includes: council tax, business rates, location data, such as for schools and leisure centres and election results. However, [...]

7da0b9848aa7deace4820d60449c2f21 Datavisualization.ch 2012-01-30T08:38:08

Open Knowledge Foundation is an important promoter of open knowledge, data and content. I think it's time to show some appreciation by highlighting some of their initiatives.

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Background The World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on a project to improve the availability of and access to evidence on inequalities in health system performance, including quality of care and the structural determinants of these inequalities. The project’s initial focus was on countries in the European Union. The aim was to take into account the geographical nature [...]

dc57d5e457ebb41a7be12a452529a6bd Datavisualization.ch 2012-01-17T15:09:15

Berlin based designer and programmer Christopher Warnow had a closer look at the interest graph between people reading the same books.

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Background The East Riding Observatory is an online resource that provides easy access to population, economic, community safety, health and education data for local authorities, partner agencies and communities across the East Riding of Yorkshire. The East Riding Data Observatory is a member of the Humber Data Observatory Group. Other Observatories in this group are: [...]

7d874c086b6a38f7e1918d17c34d1595 Data presentation, visualization & analysis software for Data Professionals 2012-01-16T14:46:37

Background The National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) is a UK-wide initiative, working to drive improvements in standards of care and clinical outcomes by improving data and information collected about cancer patients, producing analyses and enabling and promoting research. We spoke to Trish Watts at the NCIN who, along with colleague Steve Davies, has been involved [...]

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