Tag Archives: Data Visualization

Data Vis … The Movie

Posted on October 3, 2012 by cconley

A few years ago I learned 2 important tricks to navigating a movie theatre: 1)      Ask how full the theatre is when you purchase your ticket.  Finding a single seat is easy, two seats is usually no problem, but when … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the Healthcare Slopegraph – A Python implementation

Posted on June 6, 2012 by cconley

Last summer I shared an adaptation of Tufte’s slopegraph using data from the  Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences‘ (ICES) 2011 Quality Monitor report in the post Education and Health Care – Using Slopegraphs to Understand Complex Systems.  While this initial … Continue reading →

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Census 2011: Ontario Population Pyramid

Posted on June 1, 2012 by cconley

Statistics Canada has released the Age and Sex data set for 2011.  A traditional visualization for this kind of data is the population pyramid.   The population pyramid is a modified version of a stacked bar chart with the division between … Continue reading →

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Reshaping the Country

Posted on May 6, 2012 by cconley

Maps are one of my favorite approaches to presenting information.  However, they are just as vulnerable to abuse, misuse and overuse as every other form of data visualization.  Traditionally, maps employ color ranges, textures, symbols and boundary widths to describe … Continue reading →

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It Is All Up-Hill For This Data Vis

Posted on March 25, 2012 by cconley

Although snow conditions are usually the first thing skiers ask about, by the time you get to the base of a mountain (and even before you put your gear on) it is important to know which chair lifts are running … Continue reading →

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