Posts Tagged ‘treemap’
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
[Editor’s note: Great storytelling and numerical analysis of Obama’s 2010 federal budget from The Washington Post. The introductory charting is on a single axis making it easy to compare where the money comes from and where it goes. The next tabs dig deeper, focusing on historical trends (multiple axis) and a look at the surplus/deficit. Kudos to Karen, Laura, Wilson, Jackie! Brand X uses a Tree Map visualization instead.]
Republished from The Washington Post. Feb. 2, 2010.
Interact with the original at The Washington Post . . .
Tags: agency, analysis, budget, deficit, federal, flare, Flash, historical, karen, laura, numerical, obama, revenue, spending, storytelling, surplus, tax, tree map, treemap, trend, twp, wash post, wilson
Posted in Best practices, Charting, Design, Flash, Interactive, Promote, Software | Comments Off on Taking apart the federal budget (Wash Post)
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
[Editor’s note: Uses the Flare visualization API in Flash ActionScript 3 to display data about the Post 200 companies in a treemap format. A vexing and il-documented API, but powerful. We considered showing the data with a graduated circle map but the company locations were too clustered for that to be effective.]
Republished from The Washington Post.
13 May 2009. By Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and Terri Rupar – The Washington Post
Use our interactive graphic to explore data — including revenue and employment — for the top companies in the Washington area.
Boxes represent individual companies grouped together by sector, size based on data.
View the interactive version at The Washington Post . . .
Tags: api, as3, business, Charting, employment, flare, Flash, Interactive, kelso, post, post 200, revenue, terri rupar, treemap, twp
Posted in Best practices, Charting, Design, Flash, General, Interactive, Self promo | Comments Off on INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC: The Post 200 Database (Kelso via Wash Post)
Monday, May 11th, 2009
[Editor’s note: A new version of the venerable NewsMap app, the Google News treemap visualization. Refreshed for it’s 5 year birthday.]
Republished from Newsmap.jp.
Background: Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
Long time overdue, here comes newsmap 2.0
The new url is at http://newsmap.jp
Still working on a couple of bugs and really trying to push some features I still think as essential.
Before:
After:
New in 2.0 is:
- rectangularized treemap layout: To accommodate text properly, cells are as rectangular as possible, this there’s more room for headlines without chopping them off in several lines.
- search as you type: try the new search on the top right, see how newsmap updates.
- deep linking: you can now deep link to any state of the app. just try updating your view, and notice how the url changes. You can grab and share that url with anyone.
More to come:
- custom tabs: save your search query as a new tab
- custom feeds: add your own RSS feeds to the map
- stats: learn more about your news and how you consume them!
And much, much more!
Tags: aggregator, flare, Flash, google, google news, news, newsmap, treemap, visualization
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