http://www.metafilter.com/tags/streamgraph Posts tagged with 'streamgraph' at MetaFilter. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:30:34 -0800 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:30:34 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73741/Ooh%2Dlook%2Dat%2Dall%2Dthe%2Dpretty%2Ddata 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 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/20080223_REVENUE_GRAPHIC.html">box office receipts from 1996-2008</a>. There's a <a href="http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php">Twitter streamgraph</a> based on keywords. <a href="http://www.leebyron.com/what/lastfm/">Here's one</a> of all the musicians a Last.fm user has listened to over time. Track the <a href="http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager">popularity of baby names</a> back to the 1880s. Possibly the most striking, if not necessarily intuitive, is <a href="http://salavon.com/AmVar/AmVarStudy_Stills.php">this visualization</a> of US population by county, 1790-2000. There's already an <a href="http://www.leebyron.com/else/streamgraph/">academic study</a> of the technique. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73741 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:30:34 -0800 data design graphs streamgraph twitter visualization desjardins