Do you ever picture what you’ll look like or what your life will be like in retirement? If not, you might want to start now. Visualising your future self, research suggests, is one way to prevent under-saving. More »
Maybe people know vaguely what they want, such as the desire to start a business, make more money, or find work that resonates with their values, but it can be difficult to nail down the specifics. Self improvement weblog Pick the Brain advises that you should visualise what an entire day would be like once you’ve achieved your goal so that you can better understand what that goal entails. More »
LinkedIn isn’t the most visually arresting site. Log into the InMaps “labs”, however, and you see every connection, daisy-chained in colourful loops and webs. See who knows who and plot your career escape, or just reminisce over jobs of yore. More »
Newsmap is a news aggregation tool that organises news stories, by popularity and volume of reporting, in a visually pleasing treemap—making it extremely simple to see what’s going on and how much coverage it’s receiving. More »
ManyEyes is a neat tool that produces compelling visualisations based on user-defined data sets, with data types ranging from statistics tables to any old block of text. More »
Timelines are excellent for visualising change over time, but most timeline generators limit you to a single timeline. Web application Preceden features parallel timelines and accompanying charts. More »
Pyramid charts look a lot more attractive than bar graphs, which presumably explains why Office’s charting option includes so many of them. However, their visual appeal shouldn’t blind you to the fact that they often misrepresent data. More »
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Windows only: Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualisations from your data and lets you publish them to the web, where uses can interact with your charts and graphs with live updates. More »
Firefox: Want to navigate your browsing history in a visual way? Voyage turns your history into a web of nodes, linked together by their connections to each other and sized based on the number of visits More »
Your habits, behaviours, and the things you consume every day create patterns over time that say a whole lot about you as a person. It’s time to graph your life. More »
