Flow maps show branches of data which form part of a whole and are often used to show derivative products made from a single source. These were quite popular in the early 20th Century to show shipping traffic from ports. In this example it shows the components that contribute to the 3M stock price. Post-its and office produces …
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your.Flowing Data: Capturing your life data
New web service: your.flowingdata enables you to capture events and activities in your life, track and visualize them. The goal is to understand life choices better. It’s an experimental project from Nathan Yao who runs the excellent data visualization site Flowing Data . Perhaps there will evolve into a journal similar to My Life in Graphs
Learning Power Pivot
PowerPivot is a great free add-in for Excel from Microsoft that enables sophisticated business intelligence solutions and dashboards in three ways: Process millions of records from multiple databases, files, and other data streams Join tables and data in Excel , specify relationships without needing build queries in SQL or Access. Build sophisticated analyses based on pivot tables using …