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Trying out Tableau 10: #makeovermonday from August

Posted: 14/09/2016-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Visualization-Tags: makeovermonday, malaria, Tableau

A bit late, but I finally managed to check out the latest version of Tableau 10. I’ve decided to use the dataset of the deaths by Malaria around the world published within the context of the #makeovermonday week 34. My approach is pretty similar to the one by Andy Kriebel, with a few subtle differences: […]

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My Life in Weeks

Posted: 18/07/2016-Likes: 0-Comments: 1-Categories: Visualization

This interactive visualization follows the visualization suggested by the great blog Wait But Why in their post Your Life in Weeks. Each row represents a year in my life, out of the expected 85 years I’m meant to life (fingers crossed!). Rows are divided in the 52 weeks that each year has. Colors are assigned […]

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Lista de morosos de Hacienda 2015

Posted: 24/12/2015-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Visualization-Tags: Tableau

Esta es una simple herramienta para explorar los deudores (aka morosos) marcados por Hacienda. La lista ha sido publicada por El Español aquí

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Visualizing FP7 projects

Posted: 09/08/2015-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Visualization-Tags: fp7, opendata

Our latest project in SIRIS Academic has been a tool to explore the number of projects awarded to a given institution between 2007 and 2013 under the European Union seventh framework programme for research and technological development (FP7). The project is still in beta, but you can check it out here. The dataset has been […]

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Curso de Visualización de Datos en Domestika!

Posted: 09/06/2015-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Visualization-Tags: course, datavis, online

Hoy ha salido ya mi curso de Visualización de Datos hecho con la gente de Domestika! Muy contento! Espero que esto sirva para evangelizar un poco más el tema!

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Exploring ways for visualizing search results

Posted: 21/03/2015-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Visualization

Since I started working with the people from SIRIS Academic, the topic of using visualizations with semantic modelling technologies has become a real interest for me. Specially since I’m sharing office with the great Alessandro Mosca. As a first and simple effort towards this direction, we (with the special effort of Xavi Giménez) have developed a D3 […]

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My working Pulse

Posted: 24/05/2014-Likes: 0-Comments: 1-Categories: Visualization-Tags: quantifiedself, Tableau

UPDATE: Apparently people from some countries can not participate in Tableau’s Quantified Self Viz Contest, so my submission has been rejected For a long time I’ve been fascinated by the Quantified Self movement. As someone passionate about data, I can’t think of any prettier data than the kind related to myself. That’s why, since the fall 2013 I […]

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Analyzing the IMDB ratings of my favorite series

Posted: 15/11/2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 4-Categories: Visualization-Tags: analysis, IMDB, R

Since the apparently successful ending of Breaking Bad, I decided to give it a chance. So far I’m at the third episode of the second season and still don’t feel as attached to the series as everyone told me I should, so inspired by this post I decided to have a look at the IMDB […]

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Data Visualization and Story Telling by Edward Segel

Posted: 14/09/2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Visualization-Tags: heer, segel, storytelling

I’ve recently discovered this talk by Edward Segel at the Jan 2012 KDMC digital storytelling workshop. Edward dissected his paper (written in collaboration with Jeffrey Heer) entitled “Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data“. The paper, and the talk, goes through the design of narrative visualizations, identifying relevant techniques for telling stories with graphics. The slides of the talk can […]

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Visualize the link structure of your website using free tools

Posted: 20/08/2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 2-Categories: Visualization-Tags: gephi, graph, seo

There is a big value in understanding the hyperlink structure of our website as I pointed out in my PhD thesis. At the time I was doing it, getting the hyperlink structure of a website and visualize it was a tedious task. However, nowadays there are a bunch of free tools that facilitate this task. […]

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