… and points beyond

Tableau is a drag-and-drop pivot chart and graph builder. It connects to a live datasource and performs a series of extract statements to build graphs. Tableau builds a cache history to reduce load on the datasource. No ETL functions are available.
In practice, Tableau needs to be connected to a screaming fast data warehouse. Large datasets [...]

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Gallery of Data Visualization

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B-Eye Network held a competition for BI data visualization. This article looks at the entries in Scenario 1.

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NY Times “info-graphic” of where the attacks have been, from all sides, on all sides.

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I’m just getting around to posting about these two. They’ve been making good impressions for a while.
Swarm shows story popularity and digging activity. Let Swarm run for a couple hours and see what you get. Fun to watch the visualization assemble. Cool “organic” movement and responsiveness.http://labs.digg.com/swarm/

Stack shows user moderation activity by story over time. Simpler [...]

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Overview of the applications/services available for stats on RSS feeds, blogs, websites. Link Here
Update: Stamen Design made it. Here are other projects.
Image below is from “Graffiti Archaeology“. See change over time. Zoomable for detail. Beautiful art too.

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What is going on at Google? I wonder if the 10-20% that their employees spend on pet projects is basically subsidizing R&D for their competition. Yahoo and Microsoft are stealing their ideas–of course–and giving them polish, shine and a great user interface.
These images try to show the ease of working with the Yahoo interface. Click [...]

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Nice tricks. Click here. And here.
Example:

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