MetaFilter posts tagged with graphs

Does your son's name end with the letter "n"?

srs — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:01:35 -0800

Andrew Gelman recently posted this strange trend in baby naming originally posted on Laura Wattenberg's blog in 2007. Why do so many boys' names now end with the letter "n"?

A blame game of language and depth-first search.

shadytrees — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:22:40 -0800

"It's all {Greek -> Chinese -> Heavenly Script} to me." Mark Liberman, on Language Log, recently did some quick research on how other languages would say "It's Greek to me." And created a directed graph of his findings, which were then supplemented with reader comments.

Missed Connections

ugf — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:29:55 -0800

Missed Connections by state A map showing missed connections for Craigslist, by state and gender breakdown, for approximately the last two weeks by Very Small Array.

Craigstistics

Korou — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:50:42 -0800

Craigslistindex graphs data pulled from Craigslist listings. On the front page you can compare the costs of different regions. Listed in further detail are: rental, real estate, auto, and overall pricings; as well as personal and job listings. (via Mashup Awards, more Craigslist Mashups)

Lies, damned lies, and graphs

artifarce — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:19:48 -0800

Graph your life at MIT's Mycrocosm. Simple interface. Interesting potential. Worrying about. Freelance: No Idea What the Hell Is Going On. Food and Liquid Consumption. Also allows for sharing datasets with other users.

Ooh, look at all the pretty data.

desjardins — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:30:34 -0800

Stream graphs, or stacked graphs, are a new form of (sometimes interactive) visualization that present data in a fluid timescale format. For example, the NY Times website has a graph showing the box office receipts from 1996-2008. There's a Twitter streamgraph based on keywords. Here's one of all the musicians a Last.fm user has listened to over time. Track the popularity of baby names back to the 1880s. Possibly the most striking, if not necessarily intuitive, is this visualization of US population by county, 1790-2000. There's already an academic study of the technique.

Graphjam

saladin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:40:14 -0800

Graphjam: Pop Culture for People in Cubicles.

Visualize this...

blahblahblah — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:45:22 -0800

Dozens of the web's best visualization tools. Neat choices include TuneGlue's music map using data from Amazon and last.fm, Packetgarden's weird world grown from your websurfing habits, Akamai's real-time network visualization, the many widgets of last.fm, the hypnotic maps of the mood of blogs from We Feel Fine, the beautiful galleries of Visual Complexity, and a neat list of tools for drawing diagrams. [some prev]

Indexed on US Politics

whir — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:47:31 -0800

Jessica Hagy, author of indexed (previously) covers the 2008 Presidential Election for McClatchy's "alt.campaign" site.

A Study in the Trickyness Involved in Rocking a Rhyme

31d1 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:52:30 -0800

Rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs.

Countries that look like their Phillips curve

tepidmonkey — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:50:27 -0800

Some countries are shaped like their economic Phillips curve. Japan bears a strong resemblance to its Phillips curve. The Czech Republic does too, a little. And Canada’s similarity to its Phillips curve it less obvious, but it’s still there.

x is the new y

signal — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:20:05 -0800

Contrived is the new original. via.

Le Grand Content

jonson — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:15:58 -0800

Le Grand Content (embedded QT) is a short film inspired by the (previously mentioned) awesome charts-as-life-descriptors blog Indexed (and in fact, found via that site). More on the project here.

Graphs of US federal revenue and spending

russilwvong — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:58:17 -0800

Mark Wieczorek has put together some graphs of US federal revenue and spending and the US trade deficit, with a minimum of editorializing. They're shown using nominal dollars, real (inflation-adjusted) dollars, and as a percentage of GDP.

Graphs Maps Trees

painquale — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:54:36 -0800

Graphs, Maps, Trees. The Valve is hosting a literary event for professor Franco Moretti's new book, Graphs, Maps, Trees. Moretti aims to reinvigorate literary studies by constructing abstract models based upon quantitative history, geography, and evolutionary theory. PDFs of the original articles: Graphs, Maps, Trees. A review at n+1 is here.

Everything looks better with a graph

jonson — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:05:10 -0800

My awesomeness is at an all time high, as this chart will clearly demonstrate. And thanks to the magical people at Bellygraph.com, I can create & update charts to illustrate all the trends that matter to me, from my own personal awesomeness to total number of pugs owned or whatever other metric I choose.

Do you look like your race?

BuddhaInABucket — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:36:59 -0800

Face Analyzer Just upload a picture of your face and get feedback on what ethnicity you most resemble and a physiognomatic breakdown of your personality.

mathowie — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:38:24 -0800

Alterslash takes all the hard work out of reading Slashdot. On a single page, it compiles the day's headlines, along with the top five rated comments on each, and graphs the signal % over time for each thread. Think of it as an automatic digest, showing just the best of Slashdot, each day.