Web Write 101 » mashups http://www.webwrite101.com/blog Sue Davis' writing for the web blog Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:37:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 My favourite visualisations http://www.webwrite101.com/blog/2011/04/my-favourite-visualisations/ http://www.webwrite101.com/blog/2011/04/my-favourite-visualisations/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:36:34 +0000 Sue http://www.webwrite101.com/blog/?p=352 My private obsession: data visualisations.

A couple I’ve made

Website traffic plummets when 301 redirects are turned off

What happens when someone accidentally turns off the 301 redirects

This is from one of my clients Google Analytics stats. 301 redirects can take a reader from a friendly short url such as www.website.com/word – that they might type into their browser after seeing an advert in a newspaper – to something far more complex like www.website.com/english/html/subject/page.asp?123.

The public search for disease common names

Swine flu vs H1N1

Google Trends is one of my favourite visualisation tools. This shows how many more people search on Google for swine flu (the blue line) rather than the scientific H1N1 (red line). See Google Trends and try it out for yourself.

From the web

Newsmap: Google News stories

Newsmap for 5 April 2010

I like the macro and micro view of news stories and the way you can customise it by changing the url. This is business, national and technology news for the uk: http://newsmap.jp/#/b,n,t/uk/view/

Healthmap: collating disease outbreaks

Healthmap

RSS feeds from trusted health news sites combined with a Google map to show current disease outbreaks.

Smartmoney Market Map: the US markets

Market Map

Quickly see which company stock prices are rising and falling in the US markets by sector: both at the macro and micro-level.

Visual Thesaurus: swim through synonyms

Visual Thesaurus

So much easier to use than the printed version. I have the CD, but I use the web version.

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Government has the data.

Some useful mashups have been made with Government data, for example there’s a useful recycling map on Recyclenow.com.

Here’s a Google Map, made by the British Government, the UK Met Office and the British Antarctic Survey, showing the effects of global warming.

Sutton Council’s Grit Bins Map was useful a few weeks ago during the South’s heavy snow.

To help people make the most of government data, a major new website has been launched which gives free access to government data in one place: data.gov.uk

I’ll keep you posted on the innovative uses of this data. At the moment some developers are complaining that they can’t make use of the data easily.

In the meantime, here’s some of my favourite mashups:
Newsmap
Healthmap
Weatherbonk
Trendsmap

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