Continuing the yearly tradition I started last January, here is my 2009 word cloud, made using wordle.net from the text of the blog posts I wrote in 2009. The most common words don’t look too different from the 2008 wordle! It’s an SVG image, so if you’re having problems viewing it try using a more [...]
Posts under ‘visualization’
productivity
well, the paper is submitted. but man, i NEVER want to do that again. and by “that” i mean write a single-author paper in about a week. i’d been working on analysis (along with all my other dissertation- and work-related stuff) for months, but when we returned from the holiday weekend — where i tried [...]
hierarchy structure comparison
in my dissertation experiment, participants recruited from two different intellectual communities on campus organized a set of documents into file-and-folder hierarchies (single-categorization tree structures), using an online system created specifically for the experiment. as part of my analysis, i’m interested in comparing the hierarchies they created, to find out whether there are any reliable differences [...]
lattice graphics in R
if you’ve decided to switch over to doing stats in R because the graphs R generates look so nice, you’ve probably experienced frustration with the lattice graphics package. it is highly customizable, which also means it is crazy complicated. and, the documentation doesn’t seem to be written for non-expert users. while searching for documentation on [...]
scatterplots and timelines
i have finished a few new visualizations for the ctools data. i’ve been working on a python script that creates two different timelines for each site, one showing activity (events) broken down by user and the other activity broken down by file. i recommend using Opera to view the files below (or Adobe Illustrator), and [...]
