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I have been working on a blog series on census data visualizations for another site (which will be reproduced here when it’s all up). First of all, I am using that as an excuse to justify how little I have been posting in the last couple of weeks. However, there is also something I could […]
March 25, 2011 by danplechaty
Have you ever been waiting for a bus for half an hour, only for two half-filled buses of the same route to roll up to your stop? Known as bus bunching, this can be an incredibly annoying experience, especially if you see many buses pass by in the opposite direction while you’re waiting. Luckily for […]
February 10, 2011 by jacobalonso
Crime mapping has been a tool employed by police for more than a century, but only recently has the data collection been organized and consistent enough to accurately aggregate spatial crime statistics. I was taking a look at a 1997 paper on predictive crime mapping using artificial neural networks—a topic I recently became very interested […]
February 4, 2011 by jacobalonso
The Sankey Graph is one of the most famous data visualizations in history (in no small part because of Edward Tufte‘s proclamation of its greatness). Created in the 1890’s by Irish Captain Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey to demonstrate the efficiency of steam engines, it was popularized during Napoleon’s Russian campaign as an efficient way […]
Seeing Complexity 
April 20, 2011 by jacobalonso
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