12.17.2008

Data about myself talking about data

I've signed up for a beta account with Daytum, a new website that is contributing to the trend in what Kevin Kelly refers to as the quantified self. Check out my numbers!

Note that these kinds of sites are proliferating all over the place. You can keep track of your sexual relationships, your finances, your companies salaries, your menstrual period, and the symptoms and medications associated with your disease.

10.31.2008

Instant message me, please!

You can now find me on AIM and GoogleTalk. My username is rachdata. Please say hello!

10.16.2008

Using Wordle to compare library strategic plans


The first is from Carleton College's library. The second is from Trinity

10.10.2008

Adding my own data to gapminder!!!

1.31.2008

What to do?

Trying to figure out what kind of chart to make? First, you have to figure out what you are trying to show (in other words, as one of my advisers used to say, "what kind of story do you want to tell?"). Try Juice Analytics' chart chooser. It gives you suggested as to what kind of chart you want and then provides you Excel templates in order to pull it off!

9.24.2007

Data visualization with Many Eyes

This from a student who just played with Many Eyes...




9.17.2007

Data place


Check out data place to learn how you can create scatterplots using Census data! Data place also has a mapping tool that does not quite beat Social Explorer, but gets pretty close