Modern Metrix

Geographical Differences in Attitudes

Check out these amazing maps of geographical differences in social and political attitudes, created based on responses submitted by users of a dating site OkCupid.

 

(Kudos to Andrew Gelman for the link!)

Segmenting TV Audience by Genre Preferences

This awesome heat map pictures ten different TV audience segments that were created based on respondents' program genres preferences. 

Web Trends Map 4.0

Information Architects releases the final version of its Web Trends Map 4.0 (full-size image is available on Flickr)

Add some spark(lines) to your presentations

AdLab shows us how to make data presentation in Excel more interesting by adding sparklines

What Average Japanese is Doing Right Now?

Would you like to know what average Japanese is doing right at this moment, or any other given time of the day? Then go to Japan, Right Now stream graph that is based on data from the "Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activites" study conducted every five years by the Japanese Statistics Bureau.

(via Social Science Statistics blog)

Chart Suggestion Tool

This nice chart from Andrew Abela of The Extreme Presentation comes very handy when you are looking for a proper and efficient way to visualize certain data or patterns:

Geographical Differences in Flickr User Privacy Preferences

Via TechCrunch: a Principal Research Scientist from Yahoo!, Elizabeth Churchill, mapped the Flickr privacy settings using a data from the sample of one million Flickr users worldwide.

"Red spots note users who have photo sharing turned off (private), green shows users who have photo sharing turned on (public).

The results are fascinating. The US is widely public except for users who seem to be hovering around Utah, and varies by state. Europe, by contrast, is largely private, and more so as you move north. The Middle East is wide open. South East Asia is mixed. India is private."

Visualization Lab from NYT

The New York Time site introduces Visualization Lab, an interactive tool for visualizing data and other information from the current news online.

Mapping the Relationship between Brands and Conversation Topics (a New Tool from Attentio)

Attentio introduces Brand Maps, a new tool that uses multidimensional scaling to map the relationship between the brands and conversation topics in a 2-dimensional space.

Mapping Purchases of Political Books in the US

Amazon offers this wonderful map which shows what kind of political books ("red" or "blue")  are popular in which states.