Comments on: Your favorite stats & graph tools

Question: Your favorite stats & graph tools

arrhn — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:46:00 -0800

Looking for examples of great statistics display interfaces. This is preferably on the web, but I'd also like to know anything you found particularly compelling.

I'm working on a project right now that will, amongst other things, track sports statistics. Graphs are great, but so are interesting looking tables. I'm not interested in the content of the data, as much as the how it's presented. Thanks!

By: selfmedicating

selfmedicating — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:01:03 -0800

I'm sure many people will point out the baby name voyager.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:02:44 -0800

I assume you've read Tufte

By: Jakey

Jakey — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:41:32 -0800

Not directly answering your request, but hopefully helpful: Gapminder.org are working at improving the utilisation and presentation of statistics. I'm not sure if there is an actual tool available for download, but the TED talk (video), amongst other items on the site, really illustrates how statistics can be presented in an interesting manner.

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:45:23 -0800

Many Eyes

By: metaculpa

metaculpa — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:03:57 -0800

Browse through infosthetics, as it is a wonderful thing. For instance, this is pretty.

By: zpousman

zpousman — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:13:00 -0800

My boy, you need yourself some information visualization.

By: blue_wardrobe

blue_wardrobe — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:48:35 -0800

www.epispider.org - a (good?) example of the use of Tufte's sparklines (bottom right - you may need to scroll), as well as implementation of an AI scan of literature to determine time, location and type of disease reports and plot on three different map technologies with interactive data mining.

Kinda cool.