http://simonwillison.net/2010-02-17T22:20:03+00:00Simon Willison2010-02-17T22:20:03+00:002010-02-17T22:20:03+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/17/case/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/02/16/the-case-for-an-older-woman/">The Case For An Older Woman</a></strong></p> OK Cupid’s fascinating statistics blog uses cleverly plotted aggregate data from the dating site to illustrate the difference in age tastes between the genders (men try to date younger women) and show why that might not be the best strategy. An infographics tour-de-force. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data">data</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dating">dating</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/infographics">infographics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/okcupid">okcupid</a></p>

2010-01-07T19:28:40+00:002010-01-07T19:28:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/7/tv/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=1176">last.fm for television</a></strong></p> Dale Lane’s neat hack to visualise his television watching habits. An Ubuntu / vdx home theatre stores TV events in SQLite, and graphs are generated using Python and Open Flash Chart 2. The really clever bit: the back-end captures nearby bluetooth IDs’ allowing events to be filtered by the people watching based on the presence of their mobile phones. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dalelane">dalelane</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lifetracking">lifetracking</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlite">sqlite</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tv">tv</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ubuntu">ubuntu</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vdx">vdx</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-11-01T13:20:05+00:002009-11-01T13:20:05+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/1/cartographerjs/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://cartographer.visualmotive.com/">Cartographer.js</a></strong></p> “Thematic mapping for Google Maps”—which means an easy way of adding heat maps (aka chloropleths), pie charts and point clusters as a layer over a Google map. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/catography">catography</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chloropleths">chloropleths</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-maps">google-maps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/heatmaps">heatmaps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/infographics">infographics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapping">mapping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/maps">maps</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/piecharts">piecharts</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-04-10T08:43:56+00:002009-04-10T08:43:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/10/protovis/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/">Protovis</a></strong></p> JavaScript graphing library based on canvas, with an elegant chaining style API. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/canvas">canvas</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/protovis">protovis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualisation">visualisation</a></p>

2009-02-27T20:43:04+00:002009-02-27T20:43:04+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/27/sparklines/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/">jQuery Sparklines</a></strong></p> Delightful Sparklines implementation, using canvas or VML in IE. A neat nod towards unobtrusiveness as well: you can specify your data as comma separated values inside a span, then use a single jQuery method call to convert the span in to a sparkline image. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/canvas">canvas</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gareth-watts">gareth-watts</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jquery">jquery</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sparklines">sparklines</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vml">vml</a></p>

2008-05-26T21:43:36+00:002008-05-26T21:43:36+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/26/ways/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://24ways.org/2007/tracking-christmas-cheer-with-google-charts">Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts</a></strong></p> Brian Suda’s Google Charts tutorial on 24 ways has proved invaluable for figuring out how to handle grid lines and axis labels, both of which are pretty unintuitive (and not hugely helped by the official documentation). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/24-ways">24-ways</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/brian-suda">brian-suda</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-charts">google-charts</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a></p>

2007-10-17T16:02:38+00:002007-10-17T16:02:38+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/17/survey/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://alistapart.com/articles/2007surveyresults">Findings From the Web Design Survey</a></strong></p> 32,831 people responded to A List Apart’s survey, and the conclusions have been packaged up in an elegant PDF. You can also download the (anonymized) raw data and run your own analysis. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/16/analytical-breakdowns/">Eric Meyer</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/a-list-apart">a-list-apart</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eric-meyer">eric-meyer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a></p>