Stock Market Visualizations in South Park
Visualizations of stock market data at the NYSE in South Park (season 13, episode 3, 12:34″)
Forms by Memo Akten and Quayola
Google’s Ngram Viewer
Today I found Google’s Ngram viewer and raw data sets. Above is the frequency of the words “Jeffrey” and “Jeff” in all of Google’s scanned books from 1800-2000.
The query is insanely fast, considering the data that the viewer must have to read through. Also of note, the frequency is normalized to the number of books published that year.
Cropped Visualization
A tiny section from a visualization of Metallica’s “Ride the Lightning” – particularly taken by the speckles that are throughout.
ISOTYPE Visualization
A very nice vintage data visualization in the ISOTYPE style via the Information is Beautiful blog. ISOTYPE stands for “International System Of TYpographic Picture Education. It was an early infographical form, originated in the 1930s by Austrian philosopher and curator Otto Neurath ‘as a symbolic way of representing quantitative information via easily interpretable icons.'”
Extraordinary Design
“There is no way to think up an original and extraordinary design—it can only come as a result of pursuing a given task. In the same way running down a list of words is different from making a narrative.”
Artemy Lebedev (via FlowingData)
Playfair’s Early Data Visualizations
A data visualization by William Playfair from his book The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary, from the early 1800s. Playfair pioneered many of the chart forms we know today, though the one above I find fascinatingly new, a sort of combination of the pie and bar graph.
Image via (and much higher-resolution version): USU
Originally found via a very nice reprint by Cambridge University Press
Cinemetrics
“Cinemetrics” by Frederic Brodbeck
Via: Music of Sound
Current disc usage
My current disc usage as visualized by Disc Inventory X.