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Posteado por: BenWarner
Publicado el: Dec 5, 2007
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I've had a couple of requests recently for a discussion of community dashboards. We tend to use the term in two different ways. The first is to talk about community indicators projects in general, where the indicators themselves serve as gauges of progress in the community, and the set of...... [view]
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Posteado por: BenWarner
Publicado el: Nov 7, 2007
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I saw this chart, found at WellingtonGrey.net , to be a powerful way to display data in ways guaranteed to spark conversation. (Click on the picture to enlarge.) The execution is brilliant in its simplicity. Once again, the challenge for our community indicators projects is to display...... [view]
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Posteado por: BenWarner
Publicado el: Sep 28, 2007
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The good folks at Swivel have made it easire than ever to add graphs to a blog entry . You begin by either creating or selecting a graph at Swivel. I've been talking with folks about global demographic trends and their potential impacts in local communities, so I chose fertility rates in...... [view]
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Posteado por: BenWarner
Publicado el: Sep 25, 2007
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We had talked earlier about Worldometers , a site which provided continuously-updated estimates of a number of indicators across a variety of fields. A similar kind of data clock can be found at World Clock , part of the Poodwaddle group of clocks (hey, I didn't name it.) Here's what...... [view]
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Posteado por: BenWarner
Publicado el: Sep 18, 2007
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We've talked before about Edward Tufte's work to improve the visual display of quantitative information. Now here's another site, the Gallery of Data Visualization , with a Best and Worst gallery for graphs. With all the wonderful bells and whistles of new technology and tools to make...... [view]
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Posteado por: BenWarner
Publicado el: Sep 13, 2007
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We've talked about data visualization several times before in this blog, and I've pointed out a number of interesting sites that display data in amazing ways . But this site left my jaw on the floor. Smashing Magazine ran an article on Data Visualization: Modern Approaches with...... [view]
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Posteado por: BenWarner
Publicado el: Aug 24, 2007
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Sometimes we who work with data feel that there's an unbridgable gulf between Joe Sixpack and the wonderful world of data we live in. Anytime I begin to get frustrated at the lack of statistical literacy among the world at large or the difficulty in conveying important indicator trends to the...... [view]
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Posteado por: BenWarner
Publicado el: Aug 15, 2007
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Community indicators are often more powerful when mapped. And interesting data, when mapped, can often tell us something more than any table or graph might. Now it's getting easier and easier to make maps happen. Lyle at his new PublicValue blog pointed me to a news article about how...... [view]
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