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Embracing Advanced Visualization - apps4NSW Comp entries

Friday, March 26th, 2010 by Jo Deeker

Space-Time Research have developed two entries for the apps4NSW competition (for New South Wales, Australia) using SuperVIEW.  The apps4NSW competition, like the Mashup Australia and Apps For Democracy competitions, invited the public to submit ideas and applications that would benefit the citizens of New South Wales.

I’m excited about our two applications because they are genuinely useful online interactive publications of complex data that everyone will benefit from.  Our Why Australians Travel application presents a dataset from Tourism Research Australia that has not been made available to the public in an interactive way before.  It also includes advanced visualization in the form of a Motion Chart (Gapminder-style) which we’re very excited by! The motion chart can tell a story with data over time that you simply don’t see in static tables or reports.

The How Safe Is Your Suburb 2.0 application provides NSW Crime data in an interactive way, allowing users to analyse relative crime rates ot absolute crime rates by suburb.  This application is supported by one of our newest features - metadata -where explanations about the data are provided to the user to help them understand the meaning of the data.

Go check our applications out and vote for us if you like them!  And if you have any feedback on our entries please don’t hesitate to make a comment on our blog here.

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Introducing SuperVIEW Collaboration

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by Jo Deeker

SuperVIEW is our solution for Interactive Publication, Exploration & Visualization of Public Data. Our latest version has a new collaboration feature that we want to share with you.

Using our new SuperVIEW Collaboration features, you can make comments or invite others to make comments on your visualizations using Google Friend Connect.  You can also share your customized visualisation with others using our new Share feature. The Share feature allows you to embed a link to your view in a website, blog, Facebook, Twitter or your other favorite social networking application.

Recently Craig Thomler, a well-known active participant and leader in the Australian Gov2.0 movement, wrote a blog post on the new data.gov.uk site which he considers is the world leader in open data websites.  He then goes on to make a wishlist of what we could do in Australia to the data.australia.gov.au site to make it the best in the world.  Some of what he is asking is for is delivered by SuperVIEW right now including the ability for people to embed visualizations into their own sites, and to allow every set of data to support a discussion to allow people to ask questions to clarify what the dataset contains and discuss how it could be presented in a more usable way.

View this video to see SuperVIEW Collaboration in action.

If you have any questions about SuperVIEW please contact  jo.deeker@spacetimeresearch.com

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SuperVIEW Version 1.4

Friday, December 4th, 2009 by Jo Deeker

Every month we release a new build of SuperVIEW and the team behind the development are Agile masters. Each build contains new and improved features for data geeks, new visualizations, and of course fixes for the bugs… we even go on safaris to find them.

Hybrid Cloud Service

The SuperVIEW Hybrid Cloud Service consists of two components:

  • The SuperVIEW Web application in a cloud service provided by the Google App Engine.
  • The application is connected to the ‘back-end’ SuperSTAR server that cross-tabulates and processes the data.

Learn more about the Hybrid Cloud Service ….

Showcase Visualizations

Top-N charts

Top-N charts sort and filter datasets to provide an easy visual comparison of relative data event sizes. They allow you to integrate very large classifications into SuperVIEW sites by filtering in only the Top-N items in a given query. For example the top 10 locations out of 100.

Top N Chart

Population Pyramid

The Population Pyramid enables a visualization of demographic trends through population pyramids that stack two distributions back to back and side by side.

Population pyramid

Previews of New Visualizations

Dual-axis Chart

The Dual Axis Chart plots two data series against each other.

Dual-axis Chart

Timeline Chart

The Timeline Chart is based on the Google Visualization API. This chart allows you to select a time period from a scale at the base of a chart, and then see the data updated and stretched to fit the width of the screen. You can also zoom in and out of a time range.

time-line-chart

Side-by-Side Pie Charts

This allows you to view two pie charts side-by-side.

Side-by-side Pie Charts

Features for Data Geeks

Dynamic Recodes

The configuration of the dynamic recodes feature used in the Data Selection Experience has been streamlined. You now can multi-select or de-select filters.

Want more

Contact Space-Time Research if you want more information or leave us a comment in this blog post.

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