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A blog looking at information visualization by David MCandless (Guardian/Wired freelancer). I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool!

Michael Blastland writes about statisics on BBC Online - check his archive for some good stories

Ben Goldacre's blog. Add it to your bookmarks!

A visual browser for http://www.visualcomplexity.com using treemaps, tags and 'semantic distance' as navigation aids.

Financial Times animation gives a general visual idea of the way an infectious disease can spread around the world, reflecting transmission between people locally and extended by extensive international travel.

Good animation showing changing survival statistics in the UK, including projections

A US Riskometer

An API into the NYT database - for articles at least

BBC Radio 4 on top form

A wide ranging AS3 visualization library attempting to integrate other open source libraries. UN sponsored, but currently being reworked to use Flash Builder 4.

Provides 5-year and lifetime breast cancer risk from basic patient data

SOFIA (Reuters) - Thedraw of the same six winning numbers twice in a row in Bulgaria's national lottery was a freak coincidence, officials said on Thursday.

Described like this: 'This is a collection of interesting charts, tables, maps, and interactive data toys -- with a focus on economics and graphic design. Enormous thanks to the bloggers who help find all this stuff, and the wonderful researchers, analysts, and graphic designers who create them in the first place.' I think we're in there somewhere...

Examples using deep zoom images of millions of items.

Randy is the author of the Cool Infographics blog that highlights some of the best examples of data visualizations and infographics found in magazines, newspapers and on the Internet.

Californian government data

New Zealand Government Data

Datavisualization.ch is the premier news and knowledge resource for data visualization and infographics.

SDMX-ML is the XML syntax used by the European Central Bank and the national central banks in the web dissemination of statistics. The following sections in the ECB web site support downloading of data in SDMX-ML format:

football league data in excel format

An AS3 data visualization library

Collection of data visualization techniques and software links

Background to roadshow material on probability, including nice animation of Monty Hall, and with explanations labelled for educational level.

New Zealand Heart Foundation cardiovascular risk forecast

The Human Life-Table Database maintained by the Max Plank Institute, Rostok and others.

UK England and Wales lifetables

A collection of information visualizations

Mostly geographical/geological/climate related stories. Published by Durham University Dept of Geography.

A new Flex visualisation library that appears to incorporate Flare. JuiceKit™ is a Software Development Kit (SDK) for building Information Experience™ applications. JuiceKit integrates with Adobe Flex to create components that are easy to implement and aesthetically pleasing. JuiceKit components include controls, visualizations, and utility classes.

PHP LaTeX maths rendering as a web service.

2 Articles updated monthly on statistics in the news

2 Videos

Crime map of London: areas appear to be classified as high crime rate if they are more than 2 standard deviations above the mean. The 'help' does not make clear how this is done with different sized areas. This grading system would be expected to classify around the top 2.5% of areas as 'high crime'.

A java visualisation library

Lists, maps and graphics comparing wide range of statistics between countries

Animated 'riskometer' showing cause-of-death rates either as circles or bars

A tool which extends SWFObject to support the Mac mousewheel on OSX. Macs have been missing mousewheel support for flash animations.

Package of materials for teaching pregnancy risk and spread of sexually-transmitted diseases (although they make a serious and mistake in their probability theory: the final 99% chance quoted is the chance of getting chlaymdia OR getting pregnant, not AND - this is very poor for an educational resource).

Web survey of risk intelligence Quotient

Independent article on cancer risk from phones

Interactive risk education site sponsored by the Institute of Materials, so concentrates on environmental exposures

Wall Street Journal numbers guy

An impressive US competition for high-school students featuring real-world large scale problems. (e.g. Tell us how to fix the Social Security deficit)

Hosts a number of innovative javascript widgets which access a semantically linked web database stored in JSON format. MIT

Data sets on housing, fire, planning and sleeping rough in the UK

Looks like a really simple Swing-like alternative framework to PureMVC.

Interesting coxcomb graphic that takes on the form of what it's trying to describe. You don't read sectors as area here because of the context.

This site is to help people make sense of published survival data about children’s heart surgery in the UK and Ireland.

Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government are opening up data for reuse. This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data

report on paper

Decision making tool for healthcare

A Ted Talk by Chris Jordan. Deep zoom images of consumer waste, smoking deaths...