Moral => you probably use Pie Charts too much!
11 months ago
I’ve been playing with wordclouds a bit lately (see here and here), so thought I’d throw together a quick visualization of my delicious tags.
Seems pretty consistent with my (professional) interests although I’m using delicious a lot less than I used to thanks to Twitter’s iPad application.
May have to create another visualization of my tweets to see how it compares.
@neilkod has been tracking tweets from PubCon, a social media conference currently taking place in Las Vegas and sharing some of his insights and analysis on the PubConTweets site.
One of the cool visualizations Neil has put together (shown in part above) shows the interconnectedness of the top 150 users of the #pubcon hashtag. It seems that @unmarketing is the most connected amongst the top #pubcon tweeters given his high inward-connectedness (number of pubcon-tweeters that that follow him, represented by size of circle) and high outward-connectedness (number of pubcon-tweeters he follows, represented by darkness of circle).
The full post and SVG visualization are on Neil’s blog.
How much digital information will be produced in 2010? 1.2 Zettabytes
How many 16GB iPads would it take to hold 1.2 Zettabytes? 75 billion (or an iStack the size of Wembley Stadium’s field and 339 miles high)
That is pretty hard to visualize, so thank goodness for the folks at Wikibon (full visualization)
I’ve seen Clay Shirky make his cognitive surplus point a couple of times but this visualization really puts it into perspective.
Cool World Cup / Twitter visualization app from The Guardian.
The app is dynamic and you can ‘relive’ each game through the lens of the tweets sent during the game.
Note: The image above is from New Zealand’s game against Italy (paused just after New Zealand took their first ever lead in a World Cup game).
Personal DNA results: Considerate Creator
I completed a personalDNA report earlier today after being inspired by Fred Wilson (who shared his personalDNA report in the comments of this blog post).
Turns out I am a “Considerate Creator” (see results here and summarized in the table below). The results are broadly similar to similar tests (like Belbin and Myers-Briggs) I’ve completed at various team-building exercises over the years, although I am definitely seeing a greater focus on innovation (with “creativity”, “novel solutions”, “imagination”, “willingness to explore” all showing up in my profile), presumably as a result of working at a start-up for almost two years.
Excel charting guru Jon Peltier has a great post looking at alternative ways to present a stacked bar chart comparing use of different business intelligence products.
Jon presents about 10 alternative ways of displaying the data starting with a recreation of the (pretty incomprehensible) original stacked bar chart and ending with some elegant individual vendor bar charts. For me the panel column chart with series labels (shown on right above) is the most visually appealing and easiest to understand.
As always, a great post by Jon whose blog is a must read for avoiding the pitfalls of data presentation and visualization.
Tumblr’s Public Dashboard
If you’re going to do a public KPI dashboard, this is the way to do it!
