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[Crossposted from G+]

Highly effective visualization compresses high volume data - in this case, 55 years worth of Fortune 500 company stats.

Source: Fathom Information Design via Visual News
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More bikeshare system performance metrics: station availability for several systems in the US and Canada:

Having tracked Capital Bikeshare station availability for a while, it seemed an obvious next step to see how we are doing compared to other systems, at least those for which system status information is readily ( Read more... )

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Rumour has it that Capital Bikeshare will soon be releasing systemwide usage data.  For those of us who derive amusement from such things the data will be interesting to play with analyze and may even yield useful insights.

This could be quite timely as system usage is on the rise and demand is occasionally ( Read more... )

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Spring is sprung and as the weather improves Capital Bikeshare usage is experiencing a large but predictable seasonal upswing, augmented by a recent fire sale promotion which doubled membership. 
There are now over 10,000 subscribers.

The bikeshare system is completely addictive and over the winter was easy to use ( Read more... )

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There's nothing more frustrating than having an elegant solution for which no problem can be found and for some time now -- many months actually -- I've been trying to find an excuse to play with use the Circos visualization tool ( Read more... )