A beautiful collection of data visualisations, with descriptions, strengths and weaknesses, and a taxonomy that allows you to explore other visualisations that do a similar job. #
three posts about data
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Understanding variation – Orso
From my blog over at Orso, a post on understanding the natural variation inherent in data. How do you know if a change in a metric is a cause for alarm, or just business as usual? #
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Five graphs that changed the world
Adam Rutherford showcases five data visualisations that changed the world, for both good and ill:
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John Snow’s dot map of Soho, that led to an understanding of the transmission of cholera
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Florence Nightingale’s Coxcomb of military deaths in the Crimean War
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s graphs of African-American advancement in the years following slavery
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Henry Goddard’s Kallikak family tree, used to justify eugenics
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Ed Hawkins’s global warming colour stripes
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