Visual Displays of Data & Concepts

Visual Displays of Data & Concepts

• Symbols.com

Encyclopedia of thousands of symbols used throughout the ages.

• World of Visual Statistics

Online text demonstrating use of visual statistics, with SPSS examples.

• Edward Tufte: "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"

(also see Edward Tufte's site)
Classic 'gourmet' text on visual displays of data.

• Population & Sustainability

Global population and sustainability data displayed as graphs for educational use.

• Food - The Facts
  (World Food: People, Plants & Politics, Issue 225, November 1991, New Internationalist)

Facts and figures about world food production and consumption.

• Reef Futures - WebMaps

Live data maps of key survival data for the Great Barrier Reef

• Get-to-know-you Sociometric Questions

• Sociometric questions for exploring social dynamics within groups.

• The Visual Display of Quantitative XML

Graphical displays of data using XML (the most generic markup language).

Bar Graph

3D Pie Chart

Line Graph

Pyramid Area Graph

Bar Graph Showing People's Favorite Day of the Week
(Sample: James Neill, Quick Fun Survey, N = 190, 7 to 70 year olds, 2005, Canberra, Australia)

Histogram Showing the Number of Countries in the World by Average Daily Calorie Per Person Intake, 1995
(Source: world95.sav dataset supplied with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, 11.5), 2005)