Some pretty startling data here and excellent fodder for an student-produced infographic. While China’s social networking sites of choice may be Youku, Tudou, and Sina Micro-blog — but not Facebook –social media has a far greater penetration rate among an obviously larger population. So says N[...]
Archive for May, 2011
May 5th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Data Sources
They May Not Be on Facebook, But the Chinese Are Online in a Big Way
May 4th, 2011 - 1:01 am § in featured, Humanities
Dundas – 2011 Canadian Federal
For my Canadian friends, here is a visualization dashboard that can be used to examine various data driven aspects of the upcoming elections. I’ve only recently come to understand the term, dashboard. It appears to be a visualization that you can control and personalize by adjusting various pa[...]
May 3rd, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Humanities
The Tweet Topic Explorer
From the Cool Infographic blog entry I learned about this from.. Similar to a word cloud, the area of the circles is sized based on the frequency of that word in the Twitter stream. Words are clustered together and color-coded if they are often found together in the same Tweets. The actual text [...]
May 2nd, 2011 - 1:01 am § in Humanities
How Good Is The U.S. At Innovating?
This is an intriguing interactive infographic that compares innovation factors on top countries from four perspectives: Countries ranked on innovation drivers Business executives rank their countries on innovation drivers Countries ranked on innovation outcomes Business executives rank their own cou[...]