Data Visualisation: How to spice up your data

We love data here at iCrossing and all the juicy profit driving insights you can pull from it but sometimes it’s difficult to turn that dry spreadsheet into a simple graphic that really illustrates your point. Recently a few nice tools have been released that we thought we’d share with you.

Microsoft Pivot

Think of pivot tables on steroids. This new, highly visual data manipulation technology from Microsoft allows you to quickly zoom in and out of the data, cut and filter what is being shown all in a deliciously visual fashion. I could write reams of text on this, but as it’s a visual tool, I recommend watching the video below.

Click here to try it out

Google Data Explorer

A nice little tool that lets you look at public data and easily trend it over time. Motion charts are a great way of discovering patterns in the data and see how various elements interplay. The video below shows how internet access spread around the world. It’s interesting to see that countries such as Bermuda are leading the way, I would have never expected that!

Google Public Data Explorer

State of the Internet: Infographic’s

Finally just for fun as we all love a good infographic, here are two that pull out some key stats surrounding the internet and our favourite Internet behemoth

Click on the image below to see the full infographic