Sliders in web design are becoming as ubiquitous as the fading yellow highlight. They certainly offer a more interesting and sophisticated way of interacting with a lengthy data set (remember the old days: choose from a drop-down, click Submit, wait, look at new page, click Back button, get lost …).
Some sliders allow changes to the [...]
I’m intrigued by the complexity of presenting statistics on a map, and in my research I’ve come across two compelling but different approaches to mapping crime data: Oakland Crimespotting and the LA Times Homicide Map.
Oakland Crimespotting
Created by Stamen Design, Oakland Crimespotting uses data from CrimeWatch, Oakland’s community mapping website. Crime reports are grouped by violent [...]
Read moreVia Ajaxian, I learned about a new data visualization project called JsVis, released in January 2007.
JsVis, by Kyle Sholtz, is a JavaScript framework for creating “Snowflake graphs” like this one:
There is a lot of potential for visualizing complex relationships with this sort of tool. The basic layout is best for tree structures, but a thread [...]
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