Review: The human face of big data app
“A globally crowdsourced media project focusing on humanity’s new ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time.”
Visualize This chapter 2: scrape weather data using Python
This weekend I started working through the book Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics by Nathan Yau, the writer and data visualisation expert behind flowingdata.com. I’ve been interested in this field for some time but haven’t invested the time in learning new technical skills required to really push …
You are what you tweet
A bit of fun to kick off the new year. Here’s an infographic representing yours truly based on my Twitter data. It was made using visual.ly’s Twitterize Yourself wizard. Apparently, I have a geeky grin, post more positive than negative tweets, wear techie t-shirts and am possibly obsessed with football. …
Your Twitter psychological profile
TweetPysch is a tool that “creates a psychological profile of any public Twitter account and compares it to the thousands already in …
Visualisation of listening habits using last.fm API
I made a data visualisation today showing the top 50 artists I listened to in 2010. The size of the artist photo …
Why I want to track Google Spreadsheets views with Google Analytics
I’d love to use Google Spreadsheets as a repository for datasets but will need evidence that it can actually work. Adding support for tracking published spreadsheets in Google Analytics will help make the case.