Month: July 2014

  • The media frequently speculates about the relationship between hot summer weather and murders in Chicago.  With both Chicago crime and daily weather information available to the public as open data, comparing the two phenomena is possible.  Below is an interactive data visualization (point and click around on it) of Chicago homicides and weather: var divElement = document.getElementById(‘viz1753911112435’);…

  • San Francisco Police Reports 2013 Dashboard (click the filter values and hover over bubbles and bar graph colors, it’s interactive!) var divElement = document.getElementById(‘viz1753909590175’); var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName(‘object’)[0]; vizElement.style.minWidth=’420px’;vizElement.style.maxWidth=’800px’;vizElement.style.width=’100%’;vizElement.style.minHeight=’587px’;vizElement.style.maxHeight=’827px’;vizElement.style.height=(divElement.offsetWidth*0.75)+’px’; var scriptElement = document.createElement(‘script’); scriptElement.src = ‘https://public.tableau.com/javascripts/api/viz_v1.js’; vizElement.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptElement, vizElement); The above dashboard visualizes San Francisco Police Department Incident Reports for the year 2013.  Tableau Public was used…

  • Need a break from browsing accounting ledger open data?  Take an hour to browse the BC Liquor Store Product Price list which is available on British Columbia’s DataBC open data platform.  You might find the data to be interesting and useful, and the hour that you spend working with it might even be a happy…

  • The World Bank provides open data about development in countries across the globe including data about agricultural land and forest area by country over time.  Combining both of these data sets with their land area data can give new insights into the relationship between agricultural and forestry land over time. The trends of forest land and agricultural land over time can be visualized…