About Data Alchemist
This is Jacob Houtman's site to stimulate the use of open data to create and share insights. Here I blog about appealing examples I discover, the results of my own projects and information on how to become a data alchemist yourself. Enjoy!
Tag Archives: Graph
Animation: when Facebook beats Google
Watch how this animation chart shows how the corporate publicity of Google and Facebook do change over time. In 2008 Google celebrates it’s 10th anniversary and is the big winner. A year later the spectacular user growth of Facebook boosts corporate publicity. Continue reading
Posted in Companies, Data Alchemist Projects
Tagged Animation, Data Visualization, Facebook, Google, Graph, Javascript, RaphaelJS
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Big Brother is watching your telecom use.
Found this press report showing the results of research on how often “Big Brother” asks telecom providers for the details on phone calls made by individual subscribers. The graph shows the differences between European countries. This is a so called … Continue reading
Video: presentation on data visualization
Watch this TED talk on the beauty of data visualization by David McCandless. The talk was given in July 2010 at TED Global Oxford. You can find and watch more of David’s work on his site. David, thanks for to … Continue reading
Which jobs are paid by your tax?
Update: click here for complete project release. Interested in where your tax money goes? Just finished the first preview of an upcoming collection of visualizations on public paid slaries in Holland. This picture shows the public paid salaries, in case … Continue reading
Posted in Data Alchemist Projects, Data Use in the News, Government
Tagged Data Visualization, Government, Graph, Open Data, Salary
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