Gallery: Non-Commercial Research
Interactive time line on UK pay
An interactive exploring UK pay from 1975-2010 under Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown.
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This is a tool designed to explore the history of visualization by placing interactive milestones along a timeline. The milestones include graphs, maps and technology that have made possible the change in visualization methods. Each milestone is linked to a detailed explanation and a visual example.
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A visualization intended to contrast salt content between several foods.
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This online tool combines several sources of information to display life tables in the form of interactive barcharts where the user can select how life expectancy is affected by age, gender and behaviour. The screenshot shows the probability of survival of the class of 25 year olds in England and Wales who are non-active smoker
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Rectangular choropleth cartogram of people with HIV
A world-view cartogram for World's Aids Day. The size of a region indicates the number of people infected with HIV - each square being 10,000 people infected. The colour of a region indicates the rate of infection, in relation to the global average.
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This is a Gastner/Newman cartogram of the 2007 Parliamentary Constituencies. Each constituency is roughly the same size, whilst retaining something of its original shape. The colour shows the Government Office Region.
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Local Council election results 1974 to 2008.
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Second Life object developed by Daden Ltd, showing UK weather reports from data brought in externally via a Yahoo RSS feed.
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Parallel Sets is a technique for visualizing categorical data. It helps you get away from representing individual data points, and instead show sets and subsets of items with certain combinations of criteria.<br />This example illustrates the people on board the Titanic. In a way, ParSets is a mix between parallel coordinates and treemaps/mosaic plots.
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treemap, parallel coordinates, comparative chart, proportional area chart
Sensory map created by depriving people of sight and sound, and having them walk through an area while notes are taken on what they experience.
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Emotion map of Stockport, generated from drawings by local people (placed in correct geographical location) and route traces of 'emotion mapping' exercises.
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Charts the usage of certain phrases over time on historical and contemporary sources.
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UK consumer spending broken down into categories (bubble size) and, within that, durability (pie chart).
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Travel time cross-reference map (interactive)
Map showing areas within a chosen travel time from Department for Transport, and with median house price between chosen criteria.
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Map of London showing travel time from various locations to Department of Transport, Pimlico.
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Draggable world map that re-orients to points North.
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Academic citations between journals (boxes) and fields (colours). 'Compass points' indicate citations for a specific journal - incoming (white arrow) and outgoing (black arrow).
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Academic citations between journals (inner circle) and fields (outer journal)
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Music artists listened to over time, using data taken from last.fm
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A brief history immigration in the United States, winner of a Flowing Data competition.
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