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Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Dec 5, 2007

  Dashboards and Community Indicators
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]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Nov 7, 2007

  Obesity Statistics
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]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Sep 28, 2007

  Blogging Graphs
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]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Sep 25, 2007

  More Data Clocks
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]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Sep 18, 2007

  Best and Worst Graphing Techniques
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]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Sep 13, 2007

  Data Visualizations II
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]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Aug 24, 2007

  Graphs and Charts USA TODAY style
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]
Posted By:  BenWarner
Posted On:  Aug 15, 2007

  Mapping Made Easy
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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