Ryan Swanstrom

Tag: visualization

  • Learn R for Free at Code School

    Code School is offering a course title Try R. The course is completely free and can be completed online with the interactive tutorial. You will learn by doing. If you have been looking to learn R or need a quick refresher, this is probably a very good option.

  • Interactive Data Visualization for the Web – Free Online Textbook

    Interactive Data Visualization for the Web – OFPS – O'Reilly Media is an open textbook for using D3, a javascript library, to merge the following practices. Data Visualization Interactive Design Web Development The book is in early release and all the sections are available. You are also welcome to comment on any part of the…

  • Map of Kaggle Submissions

    See this interactive map of Kaggle Submissions. The map is a nice example of data visualization. The data is much easier to see on a map than in a data table. Nice work by Ramzi Ramey of Kaggle.

  • Visually becomes a Social Network

    Visual.ly recently announced the transition to a social network for data visualizations. Visual.ly aims to be the site for infographic designers. The site now has better profiles, an activity timeline, and more metrics about each infographic plus the ability to follow users. The new features are in preparation for a marketplace to be launched later…

  • The Beauty of Data Visualization – Ted Talk

    In this 2010 Ted Talk, David McCandless provides a great example of transforming data into a story. Here are some of the data topics covered. Billion dollar-o-gram What is money spent on? Global media panic (SARS, Swine flu, asteroids, killer wasps, …), pay attention to the gap What country has the most soldiers (per population)?…

  • New Data Science eBook – Free and Open-Source

    Jeffrey M. Stanton, member of Syracuse University’s iSchool, just released an open-source ebook about data science. Obviously this book is intended to be used in the curriculum for the new Data Science Certificate Program. In particular, it will be used for two courses on analytics and visualization. The book is available in the iTunes store…

  • Visualization Of Data Science Twitter Users

    This is a fun and interactive visualization of 659 twitter accounts linked to data science. http://www.greenplum.com/datasciencesummit/community/

  • Data Visualization Links

    I recently ran across the following articles about data visualization. iPad for Visualizations – Microstrategy has created an iPad app thats can be used for the analysis of bigdata. Big Picture of BigData – How visualization can be applied to the 3 Vs of bigdata (Volume, Velocity, Variety) The Explanatory Power of Data Points –…

  • Github Is Cool: They Like Data

    Today, GitHub announced the release of archived public activity data called the GitHub public timeline. The dataset can be queried via the Google BigQuery tool. To make things even more awesome, GitHub is also hosting a Data Challenge. The challenge is to play around with data and create the best visualization possible. You better start…

  • Hans Rosling and GapMinder

    Hans Rosling, co-founder of GapMinder Foundation, provides a good Ted Talk about HIV in the world. He does an excellent job of using data to highlight countries(not continents) that have the most serious problems. He also states some reasons why HIV/AIDS is not dropping off as quickly in some rich countries. Here is a second…

  • Making Data Tell A Story

    Jer Thorp gives a nice Ted Talk about making data more useful to humans. Jer is really good at making data tell a story. Watch the video to learn some more about what he does with data. He also mentions an app he helped build. It is called OpenPaths, and it allows iPhone users to…