Sunday, February 08, 2009

Visualizing Numerical Data

I was looking into visualizing numerical data and came across the following website:

Overall, MIX Online does an impressive job of allowing an average user to quickly and easily understand complex three dimensional data: time, space, and value.

Based on the visualization, it was interesting to see that the number of obese people in most U.S. states has approximately doubled since 1994. It was also interesting that the research does not take into account people who are underweight.

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