Design - Data visualization - Lukas Bergstrom's weblog

This is Lukas Bergstrom's personal weblog. You might want to visit my professional site. You can also find me on Twitter, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.

12/07/16

Visualize higher-dimensional data

Embedding Projector

11/05/15

omg the web is alive

jennifer daniel

11/24/14

Charted

Automatically create attractive charts based on a CSV / Google doc

08/14/14

Visual CSV Fingerprint

see patterns in the noise

04/19/12

Slick dataviz at Strava

Strava is a tool I use to track my bike rides: mileage, route, speed. I record rides with GPS, upload them to Strava, comment on friends' rides - cycling is already addictive, Strava makes it more so. And I love the way they visualize your rides for the year to date.

A calendar view of bike rides

Each black bar is a ride, the height corresponds to the mileage for the ride.

03/29/12

I will figure out the need later

I want to create a timeline with Timeline by Verite.

10/25/09

Gapminder - Agriculture Data

Agriculture: not sexy, but important. Gapminder is a sweet data-visualization tool with some fascinating pre-loaded datasets, makes it easy to compare variables over time and between countries. But, dude, there is no way that Jordan harvests 23,333 kg of maize per hectare..

Yeah. No way.

05/12/09

Enhancing our Grasp of Complex Arguments

The most common tool used by (corporate and government) decision-makers to show structured arguments is, of course, PowerPoint. And because no single "argument template" is appropriate, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better one.

see also Ninja Tools for Meetings

02/12/09

Interaction design reading list

From New York's School of Visual Arts. Don't have any of these books, but want them all. (That's right: I don't own a single Tufte book.)

01/12/08

A periodic table of data visualization methods

08/07/07

Monster catalog of data visualization and interaction approaches, plus some resources and tools

Yet Another List of Stuff. Lots of pretty pictures though, which are obviously useful here. (via MeFi)

06/10/07

Oh man I want Mathematica

04/02/07

Swivel - slick Web-based data visualization tool

Enter data, generate charts, use wherever. Neat model: mark the data you enter as freely available, the service is free. Keep it private, you pay.

01/24/07

Welcome to the Feltron 2006 Annual Report

Gorgeous design. Dude goes to a lot of bars. I've been down on these annual summaries recently, they often come across as narcissistic, or as bragging. But reflecting is good, and this report is just too damn pretty to be mad at.

01/17/07

Only normally, putting things in perspective doesn't make you shake with rage

comparison of cost of Iraq war and universal health care

(in case the above links break)

10/25/06

CLOCK

Don't stare at it too long, you'll get time-vertigo.

09/29/06

Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

Spectacular overview, history, and resources/tools list for treemaps (a method of visualizing tree structures that can convey information beyond just hierarchy, such as size, proximity etc.)

08/21/06

List of nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and flow-charts

07/19/06

visualcomplexity.com

Visualizations of complex networks.

06/30/06

Timeline - DHTML widget for visualizing time-based information

06/07/06

Dynagraph

Embryonic version of automatic graph generator for Windows based on the kickass Graphviz from AT&T Research.

05/16/06

articles and papers on data visualization for business

grr, registration required

05/16/06
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information aesthetics

Blog on data visualization and data visualization art.

05/16/06

The Shape of Song - visualize structure of songs in MIDI format

When you click past the intro page, prepare for a giant Java app to load.

01/19/06

Karl Hartig: Data Visualization
Some really tremendous charts from a WSJ designer. I hestitate to use the word inspirational for anything that ends up in a Powerpoint deck, but yeah, it is.

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