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On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:40:29PM -0400, Cab Vinton wrote: > Come budget time, I invariably find myself working with the most > recent compilation of public library statistics put out by our State > Library -- comparing our library to peer institutions along a variety > of measures (support per capita, circulation per capita, staffing > levels, etc.) so I can make the best possible case for increasing/ > maintaining our funding. > > The raw data is in a Excel spreadsheet -- > http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/lds/public_library_stats.html -- so this seems > ripe for mashing up, data visualization, online charting, etc. > > Does anyone know of any examples where these types of library stats > have been made available online in a way that meets my goals of being > user-friendly, visually informative/ clear, and just plain cool? > > If not, examples from the non-library world and/ or pointers to > dashboards of note would be equally welcome, particularly if there's > an indication of how things work on the back end. YMMV but I've used infogr.am [0] Granted the type of data I was using doesn't compare to the kind you are trying to tame above. Failing that there's lots of listed at datavisualization.ch[1] that could help solve you problem. Here some assembly will be required. Cheers, ./fxk [0] http://infogr.am/ [1] http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ > > Cheers, > > Cab Vinton, Director > Sanbornton Public Library > Sanbornton, NH > -- i'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- e. e. cummings