Examples of Interactive Visualization Systems

Gapminder video The Storm video Home Finder video

TextArc Google Maps Viz4All TableLens

Interactive stacked histograms US Digital History

Pad++ Presentation Tool EZChooser

Cell Phone Finder Blue Nile Diamond Search

Smart Money's Map of the Market Marumushi NewsMap

SpaceTree TreeJuxtaposer Walrus

SunBurst Animated radial graphs Vizster

Green Plant Hyberbolic StarTree

Data Gathering Techniques: PDF, HTML

EcoVis Challenge

Create an eco-visualization based on a set of impact data. An actual contest (Deadline December 8) where your course project could be a submission. Also includes some datasets of potential use, whether or not you actually enter the contest. Details at the Eco-Vis Challenge

Netflix

Anonymized Netflix data consisting of over 100 million movie ratings over 7 years with rating date, film date and title, available to those who register for the Netflix Prize.

Medical Data

Incidents of colorblindness by country (html table).
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/color_blindness/stats-country.htm

Sports Data

Baseball statistics (downloadable)
http://www.baseball-databank.org/

Tennis records (most titles, most wins, etc) HTML table
http://www.tennis-x.com/stats/tennisrecords.php

Databases for various sports. Some tables, some downloadable
http://www.databaseolympics.com/
databaseBasketball.com
databaseFootball.com
databaseHockey.com
databasePoker.com

Climate Data

Lots of different datasets. Easy to understand are PDF tables (cut and paste into notepad). Tab separated text data includes levels of indirection to region and station numbers. Realistic, but more complex.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/mpp/freedata.html

Links to weather data, including data from UW campus
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/

Another central site for weather data
http://www.worldweather.org/

Census data

Summary pages, with summary information in tables. Full sources may be too big http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/wa.html

National Park Service data

Many resources, both GIS and things like “carnivor survey
http://www.nps.gov/gis/data_info/park_gisdata/wa.htm

Clearinghouse for international data of various sorts (climate, population, currency, etc.)
http://www.internetworldstats.com/

Bureau of transportation

Airline on-time, fuel efficiency, types. Bad visualizations on the home page
http://www.transtats.bts.gov/

City of Seattle

Various tables and graphs.
http://www.cityofseattle.net/oir/datasheet/default.htm

Seattle crime statistics
http://www.seattle.gov/police/crime/default.htm