The Growth of Citibank via TinyHacker by tinyhacker on 3/11/10 Unbelievable view of Citi’s mergers and name changes through 2008. Citi’s family tree Posted via email from chestertam

Pivot Shows Again that Microsoft Is Kicking Serious Ass [Web] via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz on 3/8/10 According to Microsoft, Pivot’s “a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online,” enabling “spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of [invisible] patterns and links.” According to me, [...]

Look at Data Like a Statistician, Minus the Ph. D [Statistics] via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 3/4/10 Nathan Yau is a doctoral candidate in statistics, but the most valuable lessons he’s learned in analyzing and working with data don’t involve formal math. Here’s how he suggests looking at lines, charts, and numbers to find [...]

What the Numbers on Your Credit Card Mean [The More You Know] via Lifehacker by Lisa Hoover on 3/2/10 The string of numbers on you credit card houses a batch of information. For instance, the first number tells you what kind of card it is—4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard, and so on. Visa cards [...]

Tableau Public – Brilliant Data Visualization Tool via TinyHacker by CorporateGeek on 3/1/10 Tableau Public is a commercial tool which allows you to create amazing charts out of any data set. They offer also a free version which you can download an use at any time. With it, you have access to all features, except [...]

Infographic: Google's Cash and Culture via Fast Company by Cliff Kuang on 2/26/10 The good folks at Pingdom scoured the interwebs for facts and figures about Google, and collapsed them all into this sprawling, informative chart–it contains everything from how they make all that cash, to the composition of their workforce, to tidbits about Google’s [...]

An Easy Way to Make a Treemap via FlowingData by Nathan on 2/11/10 Back in 1990, Ben Shneiderman, of the University of Maryland, wanted to visualize what was going on in his always-full hard drive. He wanted to know what was taking up so much space. Given the hierarchical structure of directories and files, he [...]

Data Underload #7 – No Worries via FlowingData by Nathan on 2/1/10 Posted via email from chestertam

What If Computer Graphics Ran Under Crayola's Law? [Infographics] via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz on 1/17/10 I love this timeline, showing the evolution of Crayola's crayons from 1903—eight colors, including poop—to 120 colors today. Now, imagine PC graphics running on Crayola's Law, which states that the number of hues doubles every 28 years: Let’s take [...]