December 23rd, 2015 by AnyChart Team
Scottish engineer and political economist William Playfair is credited with inventing not only the bar chart but also the area charts.
Generally speaking, Playfair’s publication The Commercial and Political Atlas, first appeared in 1786, contained many interesting time-series graphs. The following two of them are more particularly mentioned today as the first area charts in history.
1. Interest of the National Debt from the Revolution. Single-series.
2. Chart of all the Imports and Exports to and from England from the Year 1700 to 1782, originally dated August 20th, 1785. This chart can also be treated as at least one of the first multi-series area charts. The area between two curves shows the difference between them and is a great visual representation of the balance of trade.
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December 13th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh
Javascript Map by AnyChart
Have you seen the cool data visualizations (including an interactive JavaScript map by AnyChart) that we have shared this week on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter? Here is a quick recap of these posts:
- This abolitionist infographic (1788) shows deck plans and cross sections of British slave ship Brookes. It is a strange, unexamined feature of the bicentenary that this image has still served to shape perceptions over two hundred years since its publication. Its continued usage cannot be explained away with traditional assumptions of its ‘innate power’ or ‘effective communication’. Read more about the poster in this article.
- NARKOZ/hacker-scripts – Hate to waste your time on routine tasks like waiting for the coffee-machine to make your latte? Use scripts to hack your life! LOL “The coffee machines uses telnet not SSH!!! this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something like
sys brew…”
- Bubble Earthquakes Map – Visit our gallery and check out this interactive bubble JavaScript map created with AnyMap. It shows where the world’s strongest earthquakes occurred. AnyMap is ideal for interactive dashboards and side-by-side reporting. This JavaScript mapping solution will help you to build interactive maps and display them in any browser on any platform. AnyMap is useful when you need to display sales by region, election results, population density, or any other information related to a geographic area.
- 15 Years of Terror – a time-lapse of all terrorist attacks with more than 20 fatalities between 1.12.2000 and 13.11.2015.
December 7th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh
In this post you will find a quick recap of the information on data visualization and AnyChart we have shared this week on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter:
- Kepler Orrery IV – This awesome data visualization is a new version of the Kepler Orrery animation. It shows all of the Kepler multi-planet systems on the same scale as the Solar System.
- CIO Dashboard – This complex JavaScript dashboard was created with AnyChart. Check it out in our sample gallery! (The dashboard is based on a sample from the book “Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring” by Stephen Few.)
- Tor Flow is a fascinating data visualization showing information flow in the Tor network – a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.
- GOP early debate: candidates ranked – a cool interactive visualization based on Google search.
November 30th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh
This week we have shared on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter the following data visualizations:
- GitHut is an attempt to visualize and explore the complexity of the universe of programming languages used across the repositories hosted on GitHub.
- Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips – Check out these data visualizations and article: it is an open-source exploration of New York neighborhoods, nightlife, airport traffic, and more, through the lens of publicly available taxi and Uber data (1.1 trips).
- No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project – See the interactive data visualization on the main page, showing the gap between the number of women and men in the workforce (and how it changed from 1995 to 2012).
- Mapping how the United States generates its electricity – How does the United States generate its electricity? These cool maps will tell you everything.
November 22nd, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh
Here is some interesting stuff we’ve encountered this week and posted on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter:
- Gasoline vs Electric – Who wins on lifetime global warming emissions? You’ll find the answer in this article (and map).
- People-Powered Data Visualization – Through crowdsourcing and citizen science projects, the general public is making profound contributions to research. Can data visualization help make sense of this wealth of new information? Read the article by National Geographic.
- height | weight | age – London 2012 Women Gold Medalists – This unusual interactive infographic demonstrates the vast variety in body size and shape amongst the elite female athletes (it is based on the data from the London Olympics 2012 website).
- These beautiful animated wind maps let you explore the variety of wind patterns in the U.S. You can see both a live map with current data and a number of historical snapshots.
November 16th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh
In this post you will find a recap of the cool data visualizations that we have shared with you this week on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter:
November 9th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh
Here is a quick recap of AnyChart news and interesting information on data vsualization, which we have shared with you this week on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter:
- AnyChart 7.8.0 – Good News! We have updated all our products, and now #AnyChart, #AnyGantt, #AnyStock, and #AnyMap 7.8.0 are available for download. We have added a number of important features, including JavaScript Heat Map charts and Zoom & Scroll in AnyChart as well as Editing Mode and UI in AnyGantt.
- Bond v Bond: the return of 007 – The history of Bond… James Bond!
- Data Cycles is a simulated real-time visualization using a year’s worth of Bay Area Bike Share data – just click Play and enjoy all these bikes riding from station to station. You can also see a few nice interactive charts in the Statistics section.
- A Nation of Poverty – Concentrated poverty in the neighborhoods of the largest urban cores in the United States has exploded since the 1970s. Check out the charts illustrating this process.
November 4th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh
Good News! We have updated all our products, and now AnyChart, AnyGantt, AnyStock, and AnyMap 7.8.0 are available for download. We have added a number of important features, including JavaScript Heat Map charts and Zoom & Scroll in AnyChart as well as Editing Mode and UI in AnyGantt (see Gantt Interactivity and Gantt Live Edit API and UI).
AnyChart 7.8.0 New Features
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November 1st, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh
Here are some interesting data visualizations we have encoutered this week and covered on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter:
October 25th, 2015 by Margaret Skomorokh
This week (as always) we have shared on AnyChart Facebook Page and Twitter some interesting information on data visualization and programming:
- Travel Dashboard – A Look Back at Recent Trends. Wherever travelers go, they’re online. Whether planning a trip, navigating a new city, or sharing vacation memories, they turn to the web, using whatever device is at hand. This has completely reshaped the path to purchase, creating many moments of intent. The Google data in this dashboard provides a glimpse into these moments.
- Eve is a set of tools that may help you think. Currently, Eve includes a database, a temporal logic query language, and an IDE. See this tutorial below to walk through the features of Eve.
- Check out these beautiful visualizations of poems, created by German data artist Diana Lange (See more here.)
- A Matter of Perspective – What happens if you cut the shoreline of a lake and unfurl it? See it for yourself!
