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• There’s More Than One Way to Skin a… Dataset

  Jul 25, 2008 to Statistical Visualization
  Last week I asked if you could improve a mediocre bar chart showing party majorities by county. There was a resounding yes as many of you deconstructed and then reconstructed …

• Mapping Walkability in San Francisco

  Jul 24, 2008 to Mapping
  Lee Byron, recent Carnegie Mellon grad and newly inducted New York Times graphics intern, maps walkability in San Francisco. He scraped Walk Score for uh, walk scores, which are scores …

• What Simple Rules Should You Always Follow When Designing Infographics?

  Jul 23, 2008 to Forums
  In the FlowingData forums, Ryan asks a really good question about data design: What simple rules should we all follow when we present data? I came up with three rules …

• Say Hello to the Brand New FlowingData Forums

  Jul 23, 2008 to Announcements
  Notice anything new at the top of this page? FlowingData readers, say hello to FlowingData forums. FlowingData forums, say hello to FlowingData readers. Tada, you're not strangers anymore. Now you …

• Shouldn’t You Be Using Firefox By Now?

  Jul 22, 2008 to Infographics
  I've been using Mozilla Firefox for years and have nothing but good things to say about the most recently released Firefox 3. Whenever I borrow someone else's computer, and all …

• Martin Wattenberg On Visualizing Large Textual Data

  Jul 21, 2008 to Artistic Visualization, Quotes
  Martin Wattenberg, one of the creators of Many Eyes, in reply to "Why is a numbers guy like you so interested in large textual data sets?" The entire literary canon …

• Thank You, Everyone for Reading FlowingData

  Jul 19, 2008 to Announcements
  A few days ago, FlowingData's subscriber count shot up to 3,100+ subscribers, moving past the three thousand mark for the first time. I just wanted to take this chance to …

• Weekend Minis for Your Lazy Weekend - 7/19/08

  Jul 19, 2008 to Self-surveillance, Visualization
  BedPost - I put this up earlier for the FlowingData personal visualization project, but for those who missed out, Kevin recently put up a sign up form so that you …

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Recent Comments

• Jon Peltier said: “I think the county registration by party was a deceptive measure. Obviously there's a significant mismatch in county population. Overall ...”
• Damien van Holten said: “I think Tyler made a very clear and - also important - well designed bar chart. Not using the fluctuation ...”
• Charlie Park said: “Seriously, I like yours the best. Seeing how "it was trying to show party registration in California over the past ...”
• grossu said: “It's obvious for me Tyler won. Amazing simple chart with the 50th percentile line. Although I haven't never used to ...”
• Tom Whitmore said: “I second the comment on context. And that means specifying a lot of things: what's being measured, when, where, and ...”
• nousha.com said: “Great study. That definitely comfort me in my choice of living in SF!”