Projects posts tagged with data

Sixty Seconds of Salary

edlundart — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:37:27 -0800

An animated data visualization I designed in association with CNNMoney went live this morning. It shows and compares salaries for different people (Kobe Bryant, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, a minimum wage worker, a physician, etc), accumulating in real-time for 1 minute. Watch the disparity grow second by second!

Want to find out how MeFites are pronouncing MeFi?

iamkimiam — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:23:23 -0800

After years of studying these shibboleths, and tracking my research progress here, I'm happy to share some data results from the 2010 survey. My first published article, Sociophonetic Variation in an Internet Place Name is available in Names: A Journal of Onomastics special issue on Names, Naming and the Internet (Maney Publishing). Enjoy! Institutional access will be required for many of the links above. For those without Institutional access, please visit either of the first three links (to my personal research website), where you can view a post-print (unrefereed version) of the published paper.

BEDOPS

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:26:06 -0800

BEDOPS is a suite of tools to address common questions raised in genomic studies, mostly with regard to overlap and proximity relationships between data sets. BEDOPS aims to be scalable, flexible and performant, facilitating the efficient and accurate analysis and management of large-scale genomic data.

Minute, a friendly keylogger and visualization thereof

tmcw — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:18:08 -0800

With the accompanying infographic-heavy blog post, it does what it says on the tin and more. Tracks your keystrokes, makes beautiful pictures and surprising observations from the data. Open source, and you can download 50 days of my data. For the tech people: main ingredients are a Cocoa app, d3 for the main visualizations, canvas & custom code for the rest, and persistence. I can't say that all the code is ready for mass consumption, but for tinkering and for that big observation that something regarded as evil - surveillance - can be used for something good and personal, and the odd meta-side that this project reflects, and shows, the project being made.

#OWS Charts

gwint — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:40:02 -0800

I'm collecting charts and data that might help to explain why those Occupy Wall St. folks are so upset.

flat filer

jim in austin — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:47:58 -0800

I have been working on this for a while but somehow it had never occurred to me to post it here. It's not really a blog, per se. Rather, it is more of a reference or index. I describe it as "tools and techniques for textual data" (the alliteration was accidental). It's not an exhaustive collection but it is fairly comprehensive. Most of the low hanging fruit has been picked so posts now are few and far between. I would welcome any suggestions you might have. You can email me through MeFi...

Oregon Ballot Drop Box Locator

OverlappingElvis — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:47:39 -0800

Since the official locator for ballot drop sites in Oregon is pretty hard to find, not super user-friendly, and doesn't work in mobile browsers, I worked with Scott Duncombe at the Bus Project to develop a friendlier site that Oregon voters can use to find the nearest place to drop off their ballots. Locations are provided by Data.Oregon.gov. We're still looking at features to add over the next days/weeks, but the site is live.

Where Our Tax Money Goes

-jf- — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:23:16 -0800

I made a visualization of the US federal budget for the Data Viz Challenge. It didn't make the cut for finalists, and it looks like there isn't going to be any feedback for non-finalists. I'm curious what MeFites think. I am completely open to negative, but well-intended, criticism. Some criticisms I expect, and my responses (feel free to repeat them or elaborate on them, this is just here to show that I am aware of some drawbacks):

It isn't pretty.
No, it's not. My first concern was to make it as useful as I could. I agree that it would be better if it were prettier.
It only displays the numbers, without telling me what I should be seeing.
This is also true. I was thinking that it would be best to be as broadly useful as possible, and I imagined that the way to do this would be to try to make it easier to move through the budget numbers, and explain how it's organized. Would it be better to approach it differently?
There are clear rookie mistakes in the way it is made.
Quite possible. I am fairly inexperienced with JavaScript, CSS, and making things for the web.