Where does your favorite sitcom take place?

On March 18, Dan Meth created a U.S. sitcom map. (That followed his popular New York map of sitcoms.) On April 2, Flowing Data issued a challenge to improve the U.S. map. Today I finished this interactive map of sitcom locations. (And by finished, I mean someone already mentioned two more sitcoms that should be [...]

Build sleek, professional timelines with Timetoast

Last week I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. So far that includes: The basics of HTML Creating an HTML table from a spreadsheet Creating graphics with Google Docs Creating interactive graphics with Many [...]

3 ways to make text more visual

Last week I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. So far that includes: The basics of HTML Creating an HTML table from a spreadsheet Creating graphics with Google Docs Creating interactive graphics with Many [...]

Create interactive graphics with Many Eyes

Last week I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. So far that includes: The basics of HTML Creating an HTML table from a spreadsheet Creating graphics with Google Docs Today we will use Many Eyes [...]

What kind of graphic should you make?

Last week I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. So far that includes: The basics of HTML Creating an HTML table from a spreadsheet Creating graphics with Google Docs Before jumping into Many Eyes, another [...]