Data Collecting, Analysis, Visualization, Example 2.
This example of data analysis is a bit interactive.
Someday, maybe even today, you might be wondering where is the best place to start new business. And like in a Harvard/Stanford example, there is a lot of circumstances to take under consideration while making that decision. One of them might be the weather, but another one might be something called GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of each country (for some people it is quite important). Or, maybe it’s not you who are deciding about future of your company, but your client. And you are supposed to tell him which countries have bigger and which smaller GDP. So you could write him/her very long e-mail explaining where the GDP is the biggest, etc. or you could just visualize it for him, like below. And you might even make it interactive.
Sometimes you may need this kind of data visualization (some clients like it when it, you know, changes), so here it is... (click on the image to see how interactive it is - it opens in a new tab)*
*oh, btw. for the moment it's written it works in Firefox and Chrome...
As you can see, one graph says more than hundred words (number of different countries presented?), one map says more than...
So remember - analyze and visualize wherever you can and whenever it's needed.
The data comes from Open Knowledge Foundation: data.okfn.org
