Monthly Archives: November 2012

Course treemap revisited

Thanks to the alertness of the reader(s) of this blog, the treemap of the previous post was found to be wrongly plotted. Contrary to what I wrote (albeit a bit fuzzy), the area of the rectangles did not correspond to … Continue reading

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Course data up on a tree(map)

The budget of Finland has seldom given a more lavish yet concise visualization than Talousarvio 2012 by Juuso Pääkkönen. I wanted to try something at least remotely similar with the Aalto open course data. My map does not offer any … Continue reading

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Selection of jobtitles

As a further exercise in our open data, a cloud of jobtitles. Aalto University do is an academic community. R code Posted by Tuija Sonkkila

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What are Aalto People interested in?

It seems that I cannot keep my hands away from Aalto open data today. Word of warning: this might happen to you too! Anyway, here comes yet another example of what we can easily do with the data, R, and … Continue reading

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Querying and plotting linked data with R

Aalto has recently introduced (in Finnish) part of its data as open linked data. The visualization playground offers some sample queries, and a nice and easy way of visualizing results with Google Charts Tools. Lately, I have been practising the … Continue reading

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Jälkipyykillä

Courseran kurssin sivut sulkeutuvat huomenna. Pitää hetki miettiä, onko sieltä syytä ottaa mitään talteen. Videoita ei tarvitse, koska ne löytyvät YouTubesta, mutta olisiko jokin kalvosetti säästämisen arvoinen? Omalta tililtä voi nyt myös hakea todisteen kurssin läpäisemisestä . Luultavasti lisään siitä … Continue reading

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