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Thursday, November 13, 2008

FlowingData

A colleague points out the site FlowingData to me.

" ... FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better - mainly through data visualization. Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and personal information you enter online are all forms of data. How can we understand these data flows? Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all ... "

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
John W. Tukey. Exploratory Data Analysis. 1977.

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