20 Visualizations to Understand Crime

20 Visualizations to Understand Crime
POSTED BY NATHAN / JUN 23, 2009
There’s a lot of crime data. For almost every reported crime, there’s a paper or digital record of it somewhere, which means hundreds of thousands of data points – number of thefts, break-ins, assaults, and homicides as well as where and when the incidents occurred.
With all this [...]

How Twitter can make history by Clay Shirky

About this talk
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
About Clay Shirky
Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues [...]

“Hooray! The Second Derivative of the Unemployment Rate Improved!”

Nate Silver,  statistician,  is ranked to be among the 100 most influential persons in the world by Times.
He has a blog at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ which is based very much on information search and statistics not only in U.S. but also in other countries. This is an example from U.S. with focus on the economic recession:
5.08.2009

Hooray! The Second Derivative [...]

Helping free up government data

Some weeks ago Tim Berners Lee’s message at TED was:  Raw Data Now! .
Now Gordon Brown charged him with helping free up government data for all to use.
In a telephone interview with Rory Cellan-Jones,BBC technology correspondent ‘he was adamant that this was not some party political job, but part of a grand global missio’. [...]

“Watch Out, Oracle: Google Tests Cloud-based Database”

This is quite an interesting article from Troogle, relating to Google Fusion Tables in my previous input and also trying to sort out the truth about Google´s intentions in the database field.
Troogle: Watch Out, Oracle: Google Tests Cloud-based Database
Posted in News, Publications, Web by henrydewaag on June 12, 2009

Google has released an early version of a new type of database [...]

Google Fusion Tables

Examples of Data Visualization

On webdesignerdepot 50 examples of data visualisation are shown. The focus lies on visualising the activities found while exploring the Web. Webdesignerdepot lists 50 of the best data visualizations, ‘covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter’ .
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot
Some beautiful apps:
Stack shows [...]

Statistics Sweden (SCB) on Twitter

Since a couple of weeks Statistics Sweden is using Twitter for communicating statistics.  This is how it looks.  Sofar only the Swedish press releases are included.

3 years

Blog about Stats started three years ago.
Total views: 42,059, 166 posts, one per week.

Thanks for having contributed to the development of this blog!
Stats after two years

Gapminder on the Diversity of Africa

Another TED video of Hans Rosling presenting data with Gapminder. This time on The Truth About HIV, in which we learn a lot about the diversity of Africa. This is where the trendalyzer shines.
And albeit the severe topic I also wanted to bring your attention to a detail of his presentation technique. Hans Rosling uses [...]