http://simonwillison.net/2017-10-08T00:21:58+00:00Simon Willison2017-10-08T00:21:58+00:002017-10-08T00:21:58+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/8/facets/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://pair-code.github.io/facets/">Facets</a></strong></p> New open source visualization and data exploration tool from Google (“Disclaimer: This is not an official Google product”, whatever that means). It’s intended for visualizing machine learning datasets but it’s obviously useful outside of ML as well—any time you need to understand a large dataset this looks like it could be extremely useful. Ships with example jupyter notebooks and an easy mechanism for embedding the Facets interactive UI directly inside a notebook cell. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/facetedsearch">facetedsearch</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jupyter">jupyter</a></p>

2010-01-25T13:11:50+00:002010-01-25T13:11:50+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/25/nyt/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.snd.org/2010/01/nyt-netflix-graphic/">The making of the NYT&#x27;s Netflix graphic</a></strong></p> A database dump from Netflix, some clever hackery in ArcView GIS, hpricot to scrape Metacritic and a lot of careful thought about the UI for navigating the data. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/arcview">arcview</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/design">design</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geospatial">geospatial</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hpricot">hpricot</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/infographics">infographics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/metacritic">metacritic</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/netflix">netflix</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/new-york-times">new-york-times</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ui">ui</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/usability">usability</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2010-01-07T21:58:20+00:002010-01-07T21:58:20+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/7/datadecs/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2010/01/data-decs.html">russell davies: datadecs</a></strong></p> Personalised christmas decorations made from data from Twitter, Doppler, last.fm and Flickr. The Twitter snowman came from a 3D printer—the size of the head varies depending on your number of followers. Best of all though is the Flickr decoration which represents the apertures you’ve used over the past year. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/3dprinters">3dprinters</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datadecs">datadecs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dopplr">dopplr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flickr">flickr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm">lastfm</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/russell-davies">russell-davies</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter">twitter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2010-01-07T19:28:40+00:002010-01-07T19:28:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/7/tv/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=1176">last.fm for television</a></strong></p> Dale Lane’s neat hack to visualise his television watching habits. An Ubuntu / vdx home theatre stores TV events in SQLite, and graphs are generated using Python and Open Flash Chart 2. The really clever bit: the back-end captures nearby bluetooth IDs’ allowing events to be filtered by the people watching based on the presence of their mobile phones. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dalelane">dalelane</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lifetracking">lifetracking</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlite">sqlite</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tv">tv</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ubuntu">ubuntu</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vdx">vdx</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-11-01T13:20:05+00:002009-11-01T13:20:05+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/1/cartographerjs/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://cartographer.visualmotive.com/">Cartographer.js</a></strong></p> “Thematic mapping for Google Maps”—which means an easy way of adding heat maps (aka chloropleths), pie charts and point clusters as a layer over a Google map. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/catography">catography</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chloropleths">chloropleths</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-maps">google-maps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/heatmaps">heatmaps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/infographics">infographics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapping">mapping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/maps">maps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/piecharts">piecharts</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-08-10T15:37:53+00:002009-08-10T15:37:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Aug/10/interactive/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html">How Different Groups Spend Their Day</a></strong></p> Classy interactive infographic from the New York Times. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/infographics">infographics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/interactives">interactives</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/new-york-times">new-york-times</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-06-12T18:07:37+00:002009-06-12T18:07:37+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/12/mrpenumbra/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://robinsloan.com/2009/41/">Mr. Penumbra&#x27;s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store</a></strong></p> Enormously entertaining short story about data visualisation and creepy San Francisco bookshops by Robin Sloan. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bookshops">bookshops</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/robin-sloan">robin-sloan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/san-francisco">san-francisco</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/shortstory">shortstory</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-04-14T08:55:17+00:002009-04-14T08:55:17+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/14/sort/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.hatfulofhollow.com/posts/code/visualisingsorting/index.html">Visualising Sorting Algorithms</a></strong></p> Aldo Cortesi dislikes animations of sorting algorithms, so he designed a beautiful technique for statically visualising them instead (using Python and Cairo to generate the images). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aldo-cortesi">aldo-cortesi</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/algorithms">algorithms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cairo">cairo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sorting">sorting</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-04-10T08:43:56+00:002009-04-10T08:43:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/10/protovis/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/">Protovis</a></strong></p> JavaScript graphing library based on canvas, with an elegant chaining style API. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/canvas">canvas</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/protovis">protovis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-04-03T15:13:23+00:002009-04-03T15:13:23+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/3/automating/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.s-anand.net/blog/automating-powerpoint-with-python/">Automating PowerPoint with Python</a></strong></p> Useful tutorial on using ActivePython’s win32com module to automate PowerPoint. The example code pulls in the top 50 banks by assets from the Guardian Data Store and generates a treemap using PowerPoint’s shape drawing primitives. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/activepython">activepython</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datastore">datastore</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/guardian">guardian</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/powerpoint">powerpoint</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/treemap">treemap</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-04-03T14:44:06+00:002009-04-03T14:44:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/3/datalibreca/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://datalibre.ca/2009/03/28/uk-guardian-data-manyeyes-isaf-troops-contribution-story/">UK Guardian Data + ManyEyes = ISAF Troops Contribution Story</a></strong></p> Including a heat map showing countries that are contributing the most troops to Afghanistan. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/afghanistan">afghanistan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datastore">datastore</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/guardian">guardian</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/heatmap">heatmap</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/manyeyes">manyeyes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/military">military</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-01-05T13:24:51+00:002009-01-05T13:24:51+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/5/travel/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://gem.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gam/index.htm">Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility</a></strong></p> Visualisation developed by the European Commission and the World Bank. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://mike.teczno.com/snippets.html">Michal Migurski</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/accessibility">accessibility</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/europeancommission">europeancommission</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/maps">maps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/worldbank">worldbank</a></p>

2009-01-02T10:34:52+00:002009-01-02T10:34:52+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/2/osm/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://vimeo.com/2598878">OSM 2008: A Year of Edits</a></strong></p> Stunningly beautiful visualisation of the year in OpenStreetMap. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=338">OpenGeoData</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapping">mapping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openstreetmap">openstreetmap</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2008-12-08T18:03:08+00:002008-12-08T18:03:08+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Dec/8/indiemapscomblog/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://indiemaps.com/blog/2008/12/noncontiguous-area-cartograms/">Noncontiguous area cartograms</a></strong></p> a.k.a. really funky data visualisation maps. Includes lots of examples, plus ActionScript 3 source code. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/as3">as3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cartograms">cartograms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flash">flash</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/maps">maps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2008-11-03T20:40:26+00:002008-11-03T20:40:26+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Nov/3/graph/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.lshift.net/election/potus/margin-bargraph/">Obama v McCain - battleground graph</a></strong></p> Paul Crowley provides the smartest election visualisation I’ve seen this cycle, using the current projections from fivethirtyeight.com and with a promise of a frequently updated version as the actual results roll in. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/11/03/whos-winning-on-election-night">LShift Ltd.</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/elections">elections</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graph">graph</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/paul-crowley">paul-crowley</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>