Posted under Open Source, Pentaho, Visualisation
Sparklines are an invention by Edward Tufte and are a great way to provide a bare-bones and space efficient time-series context for measures (Few, Stephen. 2006. Information Dashboard Design). If you would like to read more up on Sparklines I suggest you get Edward Tuftes book Beautiful Evidence – there is a whole chapter dedicated to Sparklines.
Below is a list of open source and free tools which support or are dedicated to creating Sparklines or Microcharts.
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Posted under News, Visualisation
In December 2009 the Victorian Government released a “proof of concept” mashup with demographic and government services data known as VisualPlace.
VisualPlace is a six month Proof of Concept testing innovative ways of capturing, exploring and visualising government information and services through maps. VisualPlace brings together information from a wide variety of sources from service locations to demographic data to allow you to create custom maps.
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