World Data from FedEx Experience

For regular readers of this blog, you might have noticed that I’ve written several posts over the last six months that feature sites that allow users to visualize data.   One of my goals with this blog is to give educators tools they can use with students to help them create, innovate, critically analyze and think.  [...]

Visualized graphs and charts in Google Docs

Last week, Google announced some terrific new visualizations for the spreadsheet application within Google Docs.  While I use Google spreadsheets a ton, I find I more often use the application as a database rather than as a spreadsheet.  While the application is great for storing or sharing data, the calculation and graphing options were really [...]

Visualizing statistics with Gapminder World

You may have seen the TED videos where Hans Rosling shows some amazing statistics then shows how the statistics change over time.  I know the first time I saw his presentation showing how life expectancy and family size has changed over the last 45 years I was not only amazed at the data but how [...]

Simple Data Visualization with SHOW Mapping Worlds

The world is swimming in data.  Census data.  Education data.  Economic data.  It can be difficult to make sense of all those numbers especially when they’re arranged in some gargantuan Excel spreadsheet.  Luckily, loads of sites are appearing online to help make all that data a little more digestible.  Take SHOWMappingWorlds.  Funded by a bunch [...]