3 month ago
Andy Baio : FlowingData announces winners of the Personal Visualization Project - see also: Daytum and Mycrocosm
philgyford : Winner of the Personal Visualization Project is... | FlowingData - Oodles of pretty and obsessive charting of personal data. (via Boing Boing)
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6 month ago
Simon Willison : Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts - Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts. Brian Suda’s Google Charts tutorial on 24 ways has proved invaluable for figuring out how to handle grid lines and axis labels, both of which are pretty unintuitive (and not hugely helped by the official do
philgyford : 24 ways: Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts - A good guide on how to use Google Charts. (via Simon Willison)
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : The Whitburn Project: 120 Years of Music Chart History - For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they've cre
nelson : The Whitburn Project - Andy documents another awesome underground resource; a database of all the top songs since the 1890s
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8 month ago
Cameron Moll : Accessible Data Visualization - ALA: Accessible Data Visualization. Great tutorial by Wilson Miner on creating charts and sparklines that are not only aesthetic but accessible too.
philgyford : A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards - Lovely CSS bar charts and sparklines created in HTML and CSS.
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Mail Trends, IMAP-based email analysis and visualization - works great with Gmail; for a sample dataset, Mihai used the Enron email archive [via]
joshua : mail-trends - analyze and visualize your email as extracted from an IMAP server
Rod Begbie : mail-trends - Analyzes your email corpus and displays nice graphs. Currently only works with GMail, but support for all IMAP servers is planned. [via] #
philgyford : Mail-trends - Google Code - "Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server)" Haven't tried it, but it looks purty. (via Haddock)
Jeremy Zawodny : mail-trends - mail-trends: "Mail Trends lets you analyze and visualize your email (as extracted from an IMAP server)."
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12 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet - Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet: simple and well done. nice job, google
nelson : Google Chart API - Yay, I can cancel my little project
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14 month ago
joshua : Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions - nice rundown of web charting tools
Richard Rutter : Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions - Lots of examples; some better than others.
nelson : Charts and graphs - nice rundown of software options
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17 month ago
plasticbag : The Media Guardian has released its Top 100 people in the media industry... - Nice to see Loosemore wandering into the list. Generally I'm not overly impressed by it. Not a lot of real insight gained.
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Modern Life is Rubbish posts on the top UK weblogs by Bloglines subscribers... - It's an interesting list. I'm not sure I buy the figures though. RSS feeds are messy things. Many sites support multiple URLs for the same content. Still interesting.
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23 month ago
Rod Begbie : Singles chart set to go retro | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited - This weekend, the UK charts will switch to including sales of all digital tracks, not just those marked as "singles". As a result, album tracks and one-hit wonders are likely to hit the Top 100. Anything that gets The Proclaimers into the charts *has* t #
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deusx : Arizona Coffee » Caffeine Curve - I tend to bounce somewhere between the 4 and 5 cup area of the chart
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Google - Search History Trends - Today we launched a Trends feature that gives you a look at a list of your top searches and clicks and other info about your search activity.
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Official Google Blog: Setting trends - As part of the personalization team, I'm pretty addicted to looking at my search history for interesting patterns. So I decided to go a step further and write a script to pull together some stats about how I was searching. We thought other people might li
Rod Begbie : Official Google Blog: Setting trends - Google now give you some stats on your searches if you turn on Personalized Search, but the results for me were pretty dull -- Turns out I rarely repeat a search. #
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Latent Power of Excel - Similar to how AJAX is exposing the latent power of todays browsers, there's a lot of latent power in Excel to produce a much richer analytical experience. It takes a change in mindset for us all to benefit
Philippe Janvier : Latent Power of Excel - "How to use Excel to visualize Tiger Woods' (and his competitors') distance and accuracy over time". [via] #
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41 month ago
Isofarro : URL Encode chart - Useful.
kayodeok : URL Encode Chart - The following is a chart of ascii values for 256 characters in URL-encoding form. These values can be used for URL-encoding non-standard letters and characters for display in browsers and plug-ins which support them.
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42 month ago
jkottke : Spin names Radiohead's OK Computer the best album from the last 20 years
plasticbag : Spin magazine recognise the most important albums of the last twenty years - Radiohead's at number one, depressingly. But the Pixies' place at number six with their best album has cheered me up enormously...
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44 month ago
Simon Willison : Web Browser Standards Support - David Hammond is taking on the thankless task of compiling browser support charts.
kayodeok : Web Browser Standards Support - "This document will summarize the level of support for standard web technologies by popular web browsers. It deals primarily with the Internet Explorer, Firefox/Netscape/Mozilla, and Opera web browsers, with focus on the HTML, CSS and DOM technologies"
Anne van Kesteren : Web browser standards support - Nice! And what an awful lot of work. #
Paul Hammond : Web Browser Standards Support - This document will summarize the level of support for standard web technologies by popular web browsers
Eric Meyer : Web Browser Standards Support - Quite a few charts containing quite a bit of information. [via Dave] [via]
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Independent music labels are protesting the launch of a downloads chart when they're as yet unable to get their music on iTunes - iTunes apparently has 80% of the downloads market in the UK and that means that songs that aren't on it pretty much can't make it into the charts...
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plasticbag : Top of the Pops leaves BBC One - The Radio 2-isation of Top of the Pops continues apace - and I quote: The new programme will combine with archive show TOTP2, mixing new music with footage of classic bands. The corporation said the new show "aims to appeal to a diverse audience of mus
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plasticbag : Coolfer on UK artists that don't sell in the States - Robbie Williams and the Manic Street Preachers - both artists I might add that I cannot stand the sight of any more - are releasing albums that will go #1 in the UK and will be completely invisible to Americans...
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52 month ago
Phil Gyford : Centricle : css filters (css hacks) - A big colourful pit of nasty CSS hacks.
kayodeok : centricle : css filters (css hacks) - Will the browser apply the rule(s)?
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53 month ago
Nelson Minar : Unicode chart - All code points in a single poster. I want this, but this is too big!
kayodeok : Wall-size Unicode Chart - Ian Albert has a poster containing every Unicode character. Unicode is a method for encoding characters, like Ascii, but it can represent virtually every writing system in the world, not just English. The image size is 22,017 × 42,807 pixels and the f
Wayne Burkett : Unicode Poster - IanAlbert.com - " I estimated I could print the whole thing on about a 36"×36" poster. Well, my estimates were off. It turned out to be about 6 feet by 12 feet." #
Milo Vermeulen : Unicode Chart - IanAlbert.com - Unicode Chart - IanAlbert.com [via] [via]
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