Thursday, October 21, 2010

Histogram

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-r2/Histogram's displays the frequency of information. The histogram displayed shows temperature in close range compared with frequency.

Star Plots

http://www.survo.fi/gallery/038.html
Star Plots are a very interesting example of a map. They are a type of geovisualization. Each star represents a single observation and each plot consists of radii, each spoke representing one of the variables.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Stem Leaf Plot

http://www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/didaktik/DataSharing/ROADKILL/OurOwnAnalysis.html

A steam leaf plot displays the frequency of data. The above plot display the frequency of road kill. I thought this was a unique use of this graph. This represents what animals are very rarely hit to very commonly hit.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Goggle Earth

 In 2008 a major cyclone hit Myanmar that cause extreme damaged to the area. The above photo shows the depth of the flood that occured in the area.

 This photo shows the area before the tragic storm hit the area.

The final photo shows the effect of the storm. This was a category 4 tropical cyclone that cause 138,000 fatalities in the area.