Visualization of information and statistics
It so happened that from time to time I have to work with statistics, and therefore ask the question "In what form is it better to present it to other people?" Therefore, today I will tell you about some very original ways of visualizing various kinds of statistical data.
To begin with, I will give an example of one visualization done with Processing .
It is based on the annual statistics of the people and organizations most covered by the New York Times, and the links between them are shown by lines.
Under the link you can see the visualization for each year since 1984.
The second way, perhaps the most non-original, however, he also deserves attention. For example, take the service Lovely Charts , which, like its competitors, allows you to build diagrams, site maps and diagrams online. There are an infinite number of such services, but I stopped at this because I recently mentioned the mention of it on one resource , and I liked it. Building schemes is not particularly difficult, as you can see for yourself by registering on the site. Here is an example of what happened in a couple of minutes:
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The UUrold program visualizes statistics and binds it to different politically units. This is realized by the "add-on" of a three-dimensional diagram above the political map of the world. A special player is built into the program, and if, say, the statistics have been collected for several years in a row, by changing the height of the chart, you can observe in real time how it has varied from year to year. It is difficult to describe it in words, therefore I post the author's video.
The non-commercial delivery of the program includes a huge statistical base (more than 10,000) from various fields, from medicine to economics. Of course there is the possibility of adding your own.
Tripping. Trimaping appeared as early as the beginning of the 90s, but has not received wide distribution even today. Initially, trimaping was used to visualize data on disk space, but subsequently for other purposes. The essence of this method of visualization is to represent a hierarchical (tree) system in the form of nest-rectangles. Each rectangle, with a similar visualization, has an area proportional to the statistical data. Often it helps to take a fresh look at the data structure. The most famous utility for making trimaps is the treemap 4.0 of the same name .
Here is an example of a successful trimaging based on Google News:
An interactive option here .
That's probably all. If the article will be interesting to readers and they will have some questions on the creation of such visualizations, this may be the topic for the next article. Thank you, waiting for your comments.
To begin with, I will give an example of one visualization done with Processing .
It is based on the annual statistics of the people and organizations most covered by the New York Times, and the links between them are shown by lines.
Under the link you can see the visualization for each year since 1984.
The second way, perhaps the most non-original, however, he also deserves attention. For example, take the service Lovely Charts , which, like its competitors, allows you to build diagrams, site maps and diagrams online. There are an infinite number of such services, but I stopped at this because I recently mentioned the mention of it on one resource , and I liked it. Building schemes is not particularly difficult, as you can see for yourself by registering on the site. Here is an example of what happened in a couple of minutes:
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The UUrold program visualizes statistics and binds it to different politically units. This is realized by the "add-on" of a three-dimensional diagram above the political map of the world. A special player is built into the program, and if, say, the statistics have been collected for several years in a row, by changing the height of the chart, you can observe in real time how it has varied from year to year. It is difficult to describe it in words, therefore I post the author's video.
The non-commercial delivery of the program includes a huge statistical base (more than 10,000) from various fields, from medicine to economics. Of course there is the possibility of adding your own.
Tripping. Trimaping appeared as early as the beginning of the 90s, but has not received wide distribution even today. Initially, trimaping was used to visualize data on disk space, but subsequently for other purposes. The essence of this method of visualization is to represent a hierarchical (tree) system in the form of nest-rectangles. Each rectangle, with a similar visualization, has an area proportional to the statistical data. Often it helps to take a fresh look at the data structure. The most famous utility for making trimaps is the treemap 4.0 of the same name .
Here is an example of a successful trimaging based on Google News:
An interactive option here .
That's probably all. If the article will be interesting to readers and they will have some questions on the creation of such visualizations, this may be the topic for the next article. Thank you, waiting for your comments.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/53483/
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