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6 Useful Databases to Dig for Data (and 100 more)
4 August 2011 | Pikto | Team Updates
In your presentation, quoting from Wikipedia might not always be the best (unless they are linked to reputable papers and sources). Here are 6 major databases (some are crowd-sourced so they are by organisations and individuals) and we have about 100+ links which can be very useful. 1. Freebase Freebase is an open platform for [...]
Scraping Data from a Table in a HTML Page via Google Docs
21 July 2011 | Pikto | Infographic tips
This is a pretty neat tutorial we found at EagerEyes’ blog. It allows you to scrap data from a table in a HTML page and get all of that data via Google Docs, which is a spreadsheet that more and more are becoming accustomed to. 1. Create a new spreadsheet on GDocs and enter the [...]
Selecting the Right Data Visualisations
18 July 2011 | Pikto | Infographic tips
There are some rules of thumb in engaging the right data visualisations: Chronology/Time: You should use a time series (a line chart/bar chart/ whichever you are comfortable with, with the x axis of time) Geographic: Use a map. However, maps should be annotated or complemented with a graph/chart. Comparing Values: When you are showing the highest or [...]
Power of Infographics
13 July 2011 | Pikto | Team Updates
There are some interesting statistics about infographics- just waiting to be converted into an infographic. Depending on term (infographic vs infographicS), there are multiple differences as to which countries are most interested. We did not include Google Insights but it showed an explosion in the volume of searches from 0 in 2009 to about 200,000 [...]
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