Juice Analytics
juiceanalytics.com · Company blog · on HN since 2008
Juice Analytics is a data visualization company whose blog covers chart design, analytical applications, and its Juicebox presentation tool.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend its white papers alongside Tufte and Stephen Few, and cite its pie chart critique and examples as informative.
17HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1The problem with pie charts2 people · first shared 2012
- 2Homepage2 people · first shared 2012
- 3Show HN: Juicebox – Quickly create beautiful, interactive data presentations1 people · 63 points · first shared 2020 · 21 comments on HN
- 4Real-World Tufte Graphics in 11 Lines of Code1 people · 14 points · first shared 2008 · 3 comments on HN
- 5Why Analytical Applications Fail1 people · 14 points · first shared 2008 · 4 comments on HN
- 6Databases are Rocks, Spreadsheets are Water1 people · 13 points · first shared 2008 · 4 comments on HN
- 7Thrown to the Ad-Wolves... or, Learn from My AdWords Mistakes1 people · 10 points · first shared 2008 · 2 comments on HN
- 8PyGTrends: Python API for Google Trends Data1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · 2 comments on HN
- 9NYTimes style bubble charts with Python and Nodebox1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Search Competition Among Travel Sites1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Lightweight data exploration in Excel1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 1211 Parallels Between Architecture and Interface Design1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 135 Phases of Data Analytics Maturation: Part 11 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 14Enhancing Google Analytics Using Greasemonkey1 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 15Juiced Google Analytics Python API1 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
a_at_midterms · 2015-04-01
Juice Analytics - http://www.juiceanalytics.com - Nashville, TN and Atlanta, GA. Python devs, SQLAlchemy
We're the creators of JuiceBox, a new kind of tool for visualizing data. We have a platform built on AWS, Redshift, Django, SQLAlchemy, Backbone, and d3.
We have a small team and a great work environment. There are two positions we're looking to fill immediately.
Data Architect - We're looking for someone to design the next version of our tools and architecture for managing client data.
Technical Consultant - You'll be using our framework to build applications for our clients. Python, SQL and business experience are desired.
Learn more and apply here. http://www.juiceanalytics.com/work-with-us/
slantyyz · 2012-06-02
That Stephen Few book is pretty much all you need, but you can also check out Edward Tufte's books, and Juice Analytics' white papers (http://www.juiceanalytics.com/).
gtani · 2010-01-30
Saturdam AM google fu not so good, here's what i came up with
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Network_Diagram.html
found here:
http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/best-business-intelligence/
tracyhenry · 2020-12-18
The landing page provides very little information to be honest. I found the examples in the blog writings to be more informative and illustrate the workflow better: https://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing
I also wonder to what extent this could offer more things than things like Tableau. The looks are different I agree, but the general functionalities seem very similar.
DanBC · 2013-01-04
In general it's hard to know what a chunk of the pie chart means. You get a very simple glance that one chunk is bigger, and another chunk is much bigger. But looking at that chart: How big is Eclair & Older compared to Honeycomb?
That chart is ordered by release; you start reading it at "3 o'clock" on the right hand side, and work clockwise.
Luckily they've labled each chunk of the pie. Normally they'd just have a key alongside it. People would have to match a shade of green (or some other color) to a key to try to get the numbers.
Pie charts do have uses. But they're just hard to read and present information in a weird way.
(http://pol.illinoisstate.edu/jpda/charts/chart%20tips/Chartstip%202.ht…
(http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/the-problem-with-pie-charts/)
(http://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Pie-Charts-Are-Bad/)
ChrisNorstrom · 2012-04-03
Looks. That's all. Pie Charts are terrible for comparing anything because of the way the brain understands and interprets shapes, length, and size as a quantity.
Someone came up with pie-charts a while back, others thought it looked cool, and it unfortunately stuck around.
http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/the-problem-with-pie-charts/
ganley · 2009-11-19
IANAL, but this seems ludicrous on its face. The patent app was filed in 2008, and Bissantz has prior art back to at least 2006 (see, e.g., http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/sparklines-in-excel-simplicity-i…
However, my half-assed OpenOffice version (http://joeganley.com/2008/10/sparklines-in-openoffice-calc.html) postdates the patent app. It would amuse me if I were in violation of a Microsoft patent.
pskomoroch · 2009-04-29
I did an analysis on this a while back that told the same story, there is a blog post that includes a nice visualization of the share of travel search categories across the companies mentioned in the article:
http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/search-competition-travel-sites/
Direct link to the chart
http://media.juiceanalytics.com/images/pattern_comparison.png