Saturday, December 18, 2010

10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year

Here are a couple of the Top 10, from Flowing Data:

9. Driving Shifts Into Reverse



Hannah Fairfield, former editor for The New York Times, and now graphics director for The Washington Post, had a look at gas prices versus miles driven per capita. The chart could've easily been an x-y scatterplot, but the extra step was taken to connect the dots so to speak. Points were ordered by time, and turns were clearly explained graphically.

7. What Online Marketers Know About You



Along the same privacy lines, this project from Andrew Garcia Philips and Sarah Slobin (plus five data gatherers) of The Wall Street Journal explored what online marketers know about you. I wouldn't say the visualization itself was super advanced, but thoughtful reporting and company breakdowns really made the whole piece work.

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HT: Marginal Revolution