eXplorer and Booklets for tell-a-story over the Internet

NCVA (National Center for Visual Analysis) at Linköping University develops dynamic visualization publishing – a  “statistical-story-telling” approach based on dynamic visualization “booklets” that are embedded into Web pages as HTML code. NCVA collaborates with its partners OECD, Eurostat, Statistics Denmark, Statistics Sweden and the city of Göteborg.
The software used is [...]

Interactive Viewing of Cubes: OECD.Stat and others like PC-AXIS, Superweb …

Statistical data about population, economy, transports, criminality etc. use lots of variables to describe their object. And there is no single table that answers all the multiple dimensions of questions users are asking.
To do this there exist multidimensional tables (cubes, universes) and specialized software which allow to filter the statistical variables and to get [...]

PC-Axis and Gapminder?

See http://www.pc-axis.scb.se
PC-Axis and PX-Web are software used in several countries for dissemination of official statistics. PC-Axis is a windows browser and PX-Web is for the Web and both are based on the PC-Axis file format. The PC-Axis file format is very meta data rich and should be a nice way to forward statistics into the Gapminder/Google/Trendalyzer. [...]

Eye Tracking (1): Testing a Statistic’s Website

Statistics Denmark has a good tradition in usability tests of its website. In 2006 they pioneered eye tracking. Annegrete Wulff of Statistics Denmark explained this method in the 2006 International Marketing and Output Database Conference (imaodbc) in Avila and got the Bo Sundgren Award for her presentation.
Just some days ago the paper describing this [...]