Darcy’s in the midst of enjoying the wonders of buying and selling real estate right now. With that in mind, here’s a great example of how data represenation changes how useful data presentations can be.
Here’s a typical graph of the sale prices for houses in the U.S.
Here’s another way of looking at it – like a rollercoaster track.
Data visualization is an interesting topic – presenting simple data in different manners allows different trends and aspects to be highlighted and exposed. This is just a fun example. Another good example would be Minard’s map of the advance of Napolean’s Grande Armée into Russia in 1812.
And here’s a project from IBM called “Many Eyes” that allows people to upload their data and and share different visualizations with others. Now how cool is that!
Apologies for the Flash, but is too cool not to point out.
Oops. I can’t delete or edit my comment. 🙁 Supposed to be “…but this is too cool…”. The link works, though.