Banish Tables
Tables are natural containers for data. Whenever information is presented, chances are excellent that it is communicated by means of a table. In many cases, however, when this information is complex (and the table, therefore, is large) a tabular presentation is difficult to parse visually and patterns in the tabulated data remain opaque.
You can use Circos to visualize tabular data. It's different, reasonably easy, available online, and sure to start a conversation.
It's also quite informative.
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Naming Names - Circos Engages in Political Mudslinging
Jonathan Corum of the New York Times prepared this infographic with Circos to show the extent and timing of the use of names of by presidential candidates in a series of debates. Each arrow represents one candidate refering to another, with the start of the arrow representing the time within the candidate's speech at which the reference was made.
The figure was part of a larger graphic that identified themes during the debate. Jonathan created an interactive version of this figure and discusses how he approached its design.
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Naming Names - Circos Engages in Political Mudslinging
Jonathan Corum of the New York Times prepared this infographic with Circos to show the extent and timing of the use of names of by presidential candidates in a series of debates. Each arrow represents one candidate refering to another, with the start of the arrow representing the time within the candidate's speech at which the reference was made.
The figure was part of a larger graphic that identified themes during the debate. Jonathan created an interactive version of this figure and discusses how he approached its design.
// nyt-naming
Banish Tables
Tables are natural containers for data. Whenever information is presented, chances are excellent that it is communicated by means of a table. In many cases, however, when this information is complex (and the table, therefore, is large) a tabular presentation is difficult to parse visually and patterns in the tabulated data remain opaque.
You can use Circos to visualize tabular data. It's different, reasonably easy, available online, and sure to start a conversation.
It's also quite informative.
// tableviewer
Visualizing Database Schemas
Before Circos, I created a prototype system, Schemaball, to visualize database schemas.
Relationships between tables quickly became apparent and our database administrators suddenly had more free time to play Carcassonne.
Krzywinski, M. Schemaball: A New Spin on Database Visualization (2004) Sysadmin Magazine Vol 13 Issue 08.
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Banish Tables
Tables are natural containers for data. Whenever information is presented, chances are excellent that it is communicated by means of a table. In many cases, however, when this information is complex (and the table, therefore, is large) a tabular presentation is difficult to parse visually and patterns in the tabulated data remain opaque.
You can use Circos to visualize tabular data. It's different, reasonably easy, available online, and sure to start a conversation.
It's also quite informative.
// tableviewer
Published Images
Data Visualization
Features
Circular Approach
Genomic Data
General Data
Tabular Visualization
Not Just For Genomes
Data is data. Circos is flexible. There is nothing about Circos that is specific to genomics — it just happens that I work in genomics and therefore the tool has been applied to this field.
Circos' circular layout makes it ideally suited for showing data that includes relationships between positions on one or more scales.
To name a few, Circos has been used to visualize customer flow in the auto industry, volume of courier shipments, database schemas, and presidential debates.
Tracking Customer Behaviour in Car Transactions
These days many people are dumping their SUVs in preference to smaller cars. How do customers "flow" between brands and car segments? The figures below illustrate such data sets.
