The Graphient Blog » Impressed http://blog.graphient.com Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:50:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Mapping Crime http://blog.graphient.com/2009/07/17/mapping-crime/ http://blog.graphient.com/2009/07/17/mapping-crime/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:23:08 +0000 asjs http://blog.graphient.com/?p=132 FlowingData, if you don't already read them: start now

FlowingData, if you don't already read them: start now

FlowingData has a nice post today rounding up 20 data visualizations related to crime and criminals. Most revolve around maps with temporal components shoehorned into a few. We love maps here at Graphient. We love them for how they visually describe space, and we really love them for the way they provide a fixed contextual grid for organizing other kinds of data. The map visualizations presented at FlowingData stop short of adding in other data and stick to simply reporting the facts of crime, but those maps could have been used to introduce and connect all sorts of other (possibly sensitive) socioeconomic data and maybe tell a deeper story about crime.

]]> http://blog.graphient.com/2009/07/17/mapping-crime/feed/ 1 Visualizing Randomness http://blog.graphient.com/2009/05/22/visualizing-randomness/ http://blog.graphient.com/2009/05/22/visualizing-randomness/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 16:09:37 +0000 asjs http://blog.graphient.com/?p=62 Apparently, it’s free-for-all Friday here at Graphient. I just started using live search in TweetDeck for the word “visualization” and I feel like I jacked my head straight into the internerd. Also I drank a lot of green tea just now.

Ok, randomness is a really hard thing. Deriving actual randomness is hard work. A lot of mathematical models have been created over the years to describe randomness. Conveniently for you dear reader, this guy Daniel A. Becker has visualized a bunch of them for you. Enjoy this tasty and nutritious treat here.

Poisson Distribution. Look out Roger Mexico.

Poisson Distribution. Look out Roger Mexico.

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Read the NY Times article here and feel the burn.

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]]> http://blog.graphient.com/2009/05/20/hot-startup/feed/ 0 Meet Jer Thorp http://blog.graphient.com/2009/05/12/meet-jer-thorp/ http://blog.graphient.com/2009/05/12/meet-jer-thorp/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 14:54:20 +0000 asjs http://blog.graphient.com/?p=20 Jer’s blog blprnt landed in my inbox this morning via google alert. He’s put together a pretty cool visualization in Processing by mining Twitter for the phrase “Just Landed” and then parsing out the location the tweeter had just landed in, along with the home location listed in their twitter profile. There are some problems with the assumptions made in the data collection process but, whatever. If Jer wants the science to be perfect than he’ll figure that out on his own.

The results of all that mining and processing look like this:

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Awesome. Find out more about his methodology and check out some animation here.

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