Amigos: In fact, I might know tomorrow or Tuesday about a concerted effort to liberate some potentially interesting voter registration data from the NM Sec. of State. If we can get that, and it won't happen quickly, it might offer an interesting challenge to display -- in a user-selectable manner -- both statistical data and geo data and a combination of the two.
And, should anyone be interested, I would be glad to lead a presentation/discussion (WedTech?) of the recent -- and quite impressive -- emergence of web-based dataviz tools. -tom On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, we talk a great deal about this sort of thing. But doing it is HARD! > > So, proposal: we build a nifty working group, composed of artists, > designers, journalists, mathematicians, and techies. We gotta lot of > all of these now. The group would investigate "best practices" of > data viz, along with fairly easy means of doing so .. web based > naturally. > > Lots of questions arise. Tufte's ideas of being as simple and > uncluttered as possible but with tons of information. What statistics > are meaningful. Is 3D useful and if so when? How to balance eye > candy vs compelling. And so on. > > Heck, we could even integrate it with a Nickensian Seminar. > > -- Owen > > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Victoria Hughes > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and > > Statistics > > A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData, Visualize This is a > > practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data. > > The book is published by Wiley and is available for pre-order on > Amazon and > > other major online booksellers. > > Available July 2011. > > > > -- > ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] ==========================================
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