Following their great Data Looks Better Naked post, the clever guys at Dark Horse Analytics have created a guide on how to remove Chartjunk and create really clean and expressive tables. The gif above pretty much sums it up, but go and read the full post.
Creating interactive visualizations of large datasets using JavaScript
Crossfilter is a JavaScript library initially designed by Square to explore large multivariate datasets in a web browser. It basically allows you to create sorted indexes and feed them to a charting library like D3, and enable the user to filter by clicking and dragging, even when sifting through 200.000 rows in a 5MB file:… Continue reading Creating interactive visualizations of large datasets using JavaScript
A reliable list of country codes
Who knows how much time I’ve wasted over the years trying to find a reliable data source for country names, ISO codes, phone prefixes and currencies. I have my own personal dysfunctional set of tables built manually from bits and pieces found online. But the other day I ran into this beauty: and updated ISO 3166… Continue reading A reliable list of country codes
Data + Design
A team of over 50 people have collaborated in Data+Design, a book about preparing and visualizing information. It’s a thorough but simple introduction to data collection and visualization, very thoroughly written and chock full of great advice. It’s open-source too, published in its present form using O’Reilly’s Atlas e-publishing platform, which produces very clean,… Continue reading Data + Design
How to travel with your phone without paying for roaming charges
The majority of globalized phone companies don’t pay a dime for cellphone roaming connections. They shouldn’t charge for it, but continue to do. Roaming charges are an insolent vestige of the past. It’s a way for phone companies to steal our money. So the only way we have to avoid these charges –save from leaving… Continue reading How to travel with your phone without paying for roaming charges