Interactive visualization of 2013 Thomson Reuter's Global Innovators Study
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Re: Interactive visualization of 2013 Thomson Reuter's Global Innovators Study
#2Nice visualisation, but what's the value in this? Symantec's a "global innovator" (really? I'm skeptical, but am I missing something?) And splitting companies into "electronic components" and "computer hardware" seems dubious too, since there's presumably a lot of overlap.
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#3A couple critiques. The "No Breakout" view is almost meaningless. It would be more effective as a ranked list with words. If I take a screenshot of that, it means nothing. Circle positions, sizes, and colors encode no information in this initial view. The only way to get information is to hover, letting you browse the list in a disorganized fashion.
It's not clear on load what colors represent. There are no labels whatsoever. The colors make more sense on the "Country Breakout", but you lose the context again if you go to the "Industry Breakout". The last breakout also seems somewhat arbitrary. According to this, Google is part of "Internet Search". Don't they make hardware and software as well? Is IBM still a hardware company? The lines are fuzzy, but this categorical view draws a sharp divide between different sectors.
The graphic this is based on, Four Ways to Slice Obama's Budget Proposal, contains much more information and labels it well.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/20...
Notice that circle area encodes proposed spending, which is a good measure of size/importance. The coloring is also a quantitative metric with an associated scale. When you go to the "Department Totals" view, you can see how the size/coloring reveals insights about proposed Defense spending (heavy cuts).
Re: Interactive visualization of 2013 Thomson Reuter's Global Innovators Study
#4(From the link)
Who can call "itsself" a true Global Innovator? lol...
Re: Interactive visualization of 2013 Thomson Reuter's Global Innovators Study
#5A couple critiques. The "No Breakout" view is almost meaningless. It would be more effective as a ranked list with words. If I take a screenshot of that, it means nothing. Circle positions, sizes, and colors encode no information in this initial view. The only way to get information is to hover, letting you browse the list in a disorganized fashion. It's not clear on load what colors represent. There are no labels wh…
Yea, I was going to post that the initial No Breakout view conveys absolutely no information. The colors haven't yet been explained, the circles are all the same size, and... there are 100 of them (but we already know that). Hovering over dots to find more information is really low bandwith.
Another point: the top category on the Industry Breakout view is obscured by the drop down. It wouldn't be such a big deal, but that category is probably the most important.
Also, selecting options from the drop down can leave you hovering over a different company, which creates a new hover tooltip. That's pretty confusing.
And a typo in the title: itsself
Re: Interactive visualization of 2013 Thomson Reuter's Global Innovators Study
#6Nice visualisation, but what's the value in this? Symantec's a "global innovator" (really? I'm skeptical, but am I missing something?) And splitting companies into "electronic components" and "computer hardware" seems dubious too, since there's presumably a lot of overlap.
You should blame Thomson Reuter's report for that, as I understand it, this page is an attempt to make a boring ranking (http://top100innovators.com/ ) into a sexier and more meaningful visualization.
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#7Pretty use of D3.js. Obviously this is your business but it would be great if there was some sourcecode to share with the community.
The report that the data is based on is not worth much. They claim to use Volume, Success, Global and Influence as measures. Apply this the Blackberry and Symantec and decide the value.
Re: Interactive visualization of 2013 Thomson Reuter's Global Innovators Study
#8Pretty use of D3.js. Obviously this is your business but it would be great if there was some sourcecode to share with the community. The report that the data is based on is not worth much. They claim to use Volume, Success, Global and Influence as measures. Apply this the Blackberry and Symantec and decide the value.
There's a step-by-step guide to creating this kind of animated chart by Jim Vallandingham.
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#9Why not add the country code into the circles? Right now it is relying on color alone and that is bad. Firstly there is no intuitive or learned connection between a color and a country and secondly it is problematic for people with bad color vision.
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#10Visualization, shmisulization. Only so much that bouncy balls can do to sex up a strangely parochial list. No ARM, no Tesla. But Blackberry is on the list? Seriously? How many CEOs are currently asking themselves "how can we be more innovative, like Blackberry?"