Archive for the Data Visualization Weekly

Visualizing Data: New Peculiar Examples | Data Visualization Weekly

May 12th, 2017 by AnyChart Team

Visualizing Data: New Peculiar ExamplesVisualizing data is a great way to facilitate its exploration and explanation. The new Data Visualization Weekly issue brings you, as always, some peculiar charts, maps, and other nice examples of how that can look. Today let’s see another cool set of carefully selected visualizations, four of those that we noticed and shared on social media over the past few days:

  • ResistoMap: drug resistance in human gut microbiota in different countries;
  • Diagram of tools that Cisco uses for enhancing digital engagement;
  • Chart of Apple Services’ revenue growth;
  • Video visualization of carbon dioxide’s behavior in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Data Visualization Techniques in Action: DataViz Weekly

May 5th, 2017 by AnyChart Team

Data Visualization Techniques in Action: DataViz WeeklyData visualization techniques are an amazing means of communicating information. Their proper implementation enhances understanding of data and can be very helpful in clarifying (and even revealing) differences, trends, relationships, and other patterns and related aspects within data sets.

We keep on showing you interesting data visualization examples on a regular basis, within the framework of Data Visualization Weekly (and in earlier recaps of the week). And we hope you’ll find the current issue of the series worth checking out, great as another portion of inspiration and examples of how data visualization techniques work, or – at least – just interesting in terms of facts and trends communicated.

So, here’s a small selection from what we noticed on the Web and shared on social networks within the last seven days.

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New Data Visualization Examples in DataViz Weekly: Charts of Government Spending, Beer Cities, Fortune 500 Leaders, Cherry Blossom Bloom Date

April 29th, 2017 by AnyChart Team

New Data Visualization Examples in DataViz WeeklyWe are glad to present you new data visualization examples within the framework of the weekly recap. These charts – mostly interactive – will definitely catch your eye, if you haven’t seen them before.

The graphics shared today in Data Visualization Weekly are about:

  • finding the craft beer brew capital of the U.S.,
  • revealing how the date of Japan’s cherry blossom peak-bloom has shifted,
  • exploring the evolution of industries atop the Fortune 500 list, and
  • making sense of U.S. government spending data.

Now, let’s see all of those cool new data visualization examples.

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Chart Visualizations of the Week: Data Visualization Weekly

April 21st, 2017 by AnyChart Team

Chart Visualizations of the Week: Data Visualization WeeklyWelcome to the new Data Visualization Weekly collection of interesting chart visualizations of the latest 7 days! In this series, it’s always Friday. Not that we are now part of the T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant chain – not at all! But we usually publish DataViz Weekly posts on Friday, in the Friday mood. And our goal here is to let you heave a sigh of relief after another workweek and simply enjoy some cool chart visualization examples before going to a pub (or exactly from there!), home, or wherever else for a Friday night.

See below for four engaging data visualizations. In particular, there you’ll find the animated chart that became one of the most widely liked and shared tweets with third-party charts in our Twitter account‘s history. And it goes first.

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Interactive Data Visualization Examples (Mid-April): New Peculiar Charts and Maps in DataViz Weekly

April 14th, 2017 by AnyChart Team

Tired after another workweek? Then now is a great time to lean back and relax and take a quick look at yet another set of interactive data visualization examples! We have shared these visualizations on social networks just recently. They got pretty much attention of our followers (and beyond). So their way to Data Visualization Weekly on the AnyChart blog was quite quick and simple.

Today we are presenting you with interactive visualizations of meteor streams, lynchings in America, JS quadrant chart of top 30 countries by quality of life plotted also according to their pollution indexes, and educational attainment in the United States.

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“Interactive Maps” Edition | Data Visualization Weekly

April 7th, 2017 by AnyChart Team

Interactive Maps Edition - Data Visualization WeeklyToday’s Data Visualization Weekly issue is fully devoted to interactive maps. To put it precisely, we’ll highlight four of them this time. These maps have been popular on the Web and also most followed on our Facebook and Twitter accounts within the last days. So they’ve completely deserved to be mentioned here.

Here’s what interactive maps we are sharing with you today:

  • Lead-Tainted Water Fountains in NYC Schools,
  • Surging Seas,
  • Asylum Seekers’ Paths, and
  • China’s Regions and Counties.

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Stacked Bar Charts Explained, Vizzies 2017 Winners, Global Temperature Graph, Map of Sea Level Rise | DataViz Weekly

March 31st, 2017 by AnyChart Team

Stacked Bar Charts Explained, Vizzies 2017 Winners, Global Temperature Graph, Map of Sea Level Rise: Data Visualization Weekly March 24, 2017 - March 31, 2017
Today is the 13th Friday of the 2017 year, and another weekend is coming! In the meantime, we invite you to enjoy another portion of last week’s notable works in the data visualization field. The first highlight here is the article about stacked bar charts and how to use them, written by our Data Visualization Expert Vitaly Radionov specifically for Smashing Magazine. After briefing you on that, we’ll also take a look at this year’s winners of the Vizzies Challenge, a graph of global temperature change from 2500 BC to 2040 AD, and a (scary) map visualization of the sea level rise expected in the (near?) future.

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US Military Expenditure Charts, Resource Management Chart, Color in DataViz | Data Visualization Weekly

March 24th, 2017 by AnyChart Team

US Military Expenditure Charts, Resource Management Chart, Color in DataVizIn today’s Data Visualization Weekly issue, you’ll find another set of eye-catching dataviz examples shared and discussed on media within the last seven days. The current issue highlights several visualizations of America’s military expenditure, bus schedule as a chart for resource management, and explanation on how to use color in data visualization to the best effect.

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25 Data Visualization Examples for One Dataset, Animated Map of Twitter Reactions During Oscars, and More | DataViz Weekly

March 17th, 2017 by AnyChart Team

25 Data Visualization Examples for One Dataset, Animated Map of Twitter Reactions During Oscars, and More | DataViz Weekly25 data visualization examples of how you can present the same dataset, an animated map of Twitter users’ reaction during this year’s Oscars, JavaScript-based self-driving cars, and an interactive Gantt chart sample with customized connectors in the Live Edit mode. These are the masterpieces that we are highlighting in today’s Data Visualization Weekly post.

Without more ado, let’s get to our latest collection of popular and most shared new charts from around the Web.

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Data Visualizations of the Week: JS Frog Column Chart, Seeing Theory, and More

March 10th, 2017 by AnyChart Team

Data Visualizations of the Week: JS Frog Column Chart, Seeing Theory, and MoreNow it’s time to say hello to last week’s most eye-catching data visualizations. As always, choosing just some of the best new and most popular pieces is a difficult task. But we are more than glad to do that for Data Visualization Weekly! And please don’t stop making more and more charts, people! That’s pleasant and greatly inspiring to see so many cool data visualizations emerge every week. Examining them also allows all of us to keep learning from the best practices, expand the vision, and further improve skills and understanding.

Today’s Data Visualization Weekly issue highlights the following four great presentations:

  • animated map of shipping in the San Francisco Bay;
  • interactive visualization of statistics and probability;
  • Voronoi diagram of the global economy;
  • “frog” column chart of whatever you need.

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