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Digg Stack 15: Digg stories arrange themselves as stack as users digg them. The more diggs a story gets, the larger is the stack.
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Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools.
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an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. The size of data blocks is defined by their popularity at the moment.
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Digg stories arrange themselves as stack as users digg them. The more diggs a story gets, the larger is the stack.
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a typographic book search, collects the information from Amazon and presents it in the form of keyword you’ve provided.
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lets you explore the behavior of your visitors with a heat map. More popular sections, which are clicked more often, are highlighted as “warm” – in red color.
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Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.