linkchasing, mostly visualizations

[eub]

I was reading In the Pipeline (really about pharmaceutical chemistry, but also home of the mass-appeal Things I Won't Work With).

That linked to this visualization of evidence for "dietary supplements". The coolest part is that it's generated from a shared spreadsheet, through which you can trace references to the literature. Data distillation, still not magic.

That's on informationisbeautiful, which is a blog on data visualization.

It showed an amusing visualizer of Google autocompletions.

That app is from hint.fm, which is two people's visualizations. A yearly wheel of the colors in Flickr photos, and a handy visual key to body parts referenced in lyrics, by genre. (Eyes are the most popular, except in three genres. Which three?)

Popping back up to informationisbeautiful, they also pointed to an OKCupid blog post about what works in a profile picture.

This OKCupid blog turns out to be kind of awesome. The stated age range of women sought by men, versus the man's age, overplotted with heatmap of whom they actually contact. (I think it's clear from this plot that men are literally computing n/2 + 7. Then, for age to hit on, they're computing 18.) A choropleth of oral sex attitudes, with interactive age slider. The effects of race on response rate, straight and queer data.

Comments

[dgr.livejournal.com]

Those are pretty cool. I am a sucker for cool visualizations.

[via-lens.livejournal.com]

I need to go back and look at the visualizations when I'm done reading about the things Derek Lowe won't work with. What a great link.

[eub.livejournal.com]

And then there's How Not To Do It.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

I need a Worth It Line.