Speedometer Design: Why It Works | DATA + DESIGN by Paul Van Slembrouck

Gauge controls may have some comfortable familiarity with certain business users (think oil & gas or automotive/transportation). 

However, do they convey business information in a quick, actionable way?
Speedometer Design: Why It Works | DATA + DESIGN by Paul Van Slembrouck

HTML5 visualizations

Some HTML 5 visualizations

A spinnable flare graph
http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111116/bundle.html

A tree map
http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111018/treemap.html

A map of US
http://mbostock.github.com/d3/talk/20111116/airports.html

LobsterPot provides an open-source version of MS Pivot Viewer
http://netflixpivot.cloudapp.net/

2011年の日本の地震 分布図 Japan earthquakes 2011 Visualization map (2012-01-01) - YouTube

It isn’t so much the visualization as it is the sound that will blow you away. From the constant frame of reference in the top left clock / calendar, to the scrolling detail data, this has all the elements of a perfect visualization.  It would be really cool to see twitter feeds and news headings on this too.

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The Data Puzzle : A PerformancePoint Server 2007 Wordle word cloud

Tag Cloud in Java.

Wordle is a lot of fun to use if you’re a data visualization geek like I am. I took Gartner’s October 2007 report on PerformancePoint Server 2007, selected the Key Points, and copied and pasted it into the Wordle Web page.

The Data Puzzle : A PerformancePoint Server 2007 Wordle word cloud

Global distribution of the world's water

This is one striking example of why the polar caps are the most important feature of earth.

This shows us why Norway ends up with all of the garbage that falls off container ships.

The black areas really cut a swath through key parts of the world.

But why Saskatchewan?

 

The whole report is here.

http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4/media/