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Dr. Christie's Foundational STEM Course: Graphs

Examples of Graphs

• Presidential Approval Tracker
• Best Pie Chart. Ever! (Fox News) Do you see the problem?
• Who Rules The Social Web?
• Fatal Infection
• The Billion Dollar Gram
• Mountains Out of Molehills
• Movie Monster Comparison Chart
• Kyoto: Who’s On Target?
• Swine Flu Visualized
• What's Cooking on Thanksgiving? (Response to 50 questions regarding T-Day Repast
• Buzzwords
• CEO Compensation
• Twitter Stats
• Walled World
• Google is NOT a Search Engine
• SAT scores and class size
• Jobs for 2010

Examples of Concept Maps

• Left vs Right
• Good Night
• The Death of the Music Industry
• Caffine and Calories
• Reduce the Odds of Dying in a Plane Crash
• MSNBC Historical Hurricane Map
• Trees, cabs and crime in San Francisco
• Information Design

Visualizations

• ManyEyes
  • Learning
  • U.S. Government Response to H1N1 (#1)
  • US Government Response to H1N1 (#2)
• Hypertension Protocol
• Messages sent per minute on 9/11
• Negative Equity by State
• Casualties of Civil War
• Web 2.0 Wordle
• Afghanistan by the Numbers (November 2009)
• Visual Work History of David Gillett
• Drugs World
• Visual Complexity
  • NYC Subway Ridership 1905-2006
  • Worldwide Airline Routes
  • The Remotest Place on Earth
  • 3D Geographic Network Display
  • GraphNews

Thinking About Data

• What Do These Maps Show?
• 9 Ways to Visualize Proportions
• Coverage Maps: Verizon vs. AT&T
• 30 Resources to Find the Data You Need

Data Resources

• Google Data and Stats
• WorldBank Public Data