Datavisualization.ch » Community http://datavisualization.ch Datavisualization.ch is the premier news and knowledge resource for data visualization and infographics. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:23:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Announcement: WeLoveDatavis Tumblrhttp://datavisualization.ch/notes/announcement-welovedatavis-tumblr/ http://datavisualization.ch/notes/announcement-welovedatavis-tumblr/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:29:47 +0000 Benjamin Wiederkehr http://datavisualization.ch/?p=3733 If you’re anything like us you know how hard it is to resist a solid designed infographic. Actually we get intruiged by the sheer beauty of good typography combined with understandable graphic representation of information. Admittedly sometimes aesthetics predominate clarity and although we can’t resits admiring the piece of work.

To share our findings that don’t require any further explanation we’ve created the WeLoveDatavis Tumblr.

“WeLoveDatavis is an inspirational collection of Charts, Maps, Graphs, Diagrams — sometimes more data art than information visualization but always amazingly awsome!”

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Tumblr.com is our tool of choice for several reasons:

  1. Ease of use
  2. Customization
  3. Submissions

Get Involved

As Tumblr allows other users to submit content to our tumblr blog we decided to open WeLoveDatavis to the community and thus giving you the possibility to share your own findings with our readership. Postings on the tumblr blog gets posted to our Twitter audience as well (using the #welovedatavis hashtag) to spread the datavis-love. Please use this possibility reasonable and don’t spam us and our readers.

Excited about this? We certainly are and we would appreciate your thoughts on this. As we are new to the world of Tumblr, do you have any suggestions about great blogs to follow?

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]]> http://datavisualization.ch/notes/guardian-datastore-group-on-flickr/feed/ 0 Socrata – A Social Network For Datahttp://datavisualization.ch/datasets/socrata-%e2%80%93-a-social-network-for-data/ http://datavisualization.ch/datasets/socrata-%e2%80%93-a-social-network-for-data/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:00:22 +0000 Benjamin Wiederkehr http://datavisualization.ch/?p=2347 socrata_01Please welcome new player in the open data game: Socrata – a social network for data. Socrata provides a platform to publish open datasets, let’s users view, download, share, comment or rate the datasets and opens up a space to connect with fellow data enthusiasts.

The official description of Socrata

Opening government to new audiences and constituencies is the 21st century battle cry in societies everywhere. At the heart of this movement is open government data, readily accessible over the internet, in a form that maximizes comprehension, interactivity, participation, and sharing, delivered at a fraction of the cost of today’s data download sites. At Socrata, we call this social data discovery, and we’ve engineered a comprehensive suite of Web solutions for delivering social data discovery on government data sites around the world.

The Data

The datasets hosted on Socrata gets treated in a Spa-like manner. Nicely tagged and categorized each dataset has it’s own page that comes with a plethora of functionalities:

  • Download the data in various formats (CSV, PDF, XML, JSON)
  • Printing
  • RSS Feed
  • API result view
  • User generated content: ratings and comments
  • History of latest activity
  • Charts and reports (coming soon)

socrata_tableA powerful feature is the tabular view of the dataset: The data can be explored, sort and filtered directly on the site. Large datasets are continuosly loaded as the user scrolls through the data to shorten loading times. Socrata even provides the code to embed the data in your own site.

socrata_filterAs some of the datasets are very extensive the user has the possibility to filter the data. This filtered view can then be saved and used and shared as an indipendent dataset.

The Community

socrata_communityThe Community part of Socrata comes with the most obvious social networking functionalities like user-profile, latest activity, followers, friends, etc. At this point we can hardly see greater value in this area but we’re looking forward to be proven wrong as benefits for individuals may emerge.

Find more information or visit my profile on Socrata.

Via VizWorld

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