Reader and tipster Chris P. found this "death spiral" chart dizzying (link). It's one of those charts that has conceptual appeal but does not do the data justice. As the name implies, the designer has a strong message, that the...
Reader and tipster Chris P. found this "death spiral" chart dizzying (link). It's one of those charts that has conceptual appeal but does not do the data justice. As the name implies, the designer has a strong message, that the...
Xan Gregg and I talked about how we should celebrate PI day. How about cleaning up Wikipedia by getting rid of those ugly, confusing, multicolor, 3D, exploded pie charts? (PS. Here is Xan's post.) A quick search on Google reveals...
The class practised doing critiques on the famous Wind Map by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg. Click here for a real-time version of the map. I selected this particular project because it is a heartless person indeed who does not...
Back in 2007, the New York Times graphics team produced a fabulous chart explaining the rise in prices at the pump (link). Let's start with the tab labeled "Regional Price" which contains a well-executed map of the average gas prices...
A Relection on the past year: Thanks to you for continuing to make this blog a success. Writing it has given me much enjoyment over the years, and I have learned much from your comments as well as from the...
On Friday, I'm attending and speaking at the Leaders in Software and Art Conference, organized by Isabel Draves. LISA is an amazing gathering of artists interested in technology and software. For example, there is a panel on 3D printing and...
For all the flak China receives about its greenhouse gas emissions, the average Chinese produces less than a third the amount of CO2 than his American counterpart. It just so happens that there are 1.3 billion Chinese, and 0.3 billion Americans, so China ends up producing more CO2. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, such […]
Abhinav asks me to check out his blog post on a chart on global warming (I prefer the term climate change) featured on Wonkblog. The chart is sourced to a report by the World Metereological Association (link to PDF). Hello,...
Here's a chart from one of the Italian dailies I picked up in Rome last August . It apparently plots the number of hectares of farmland that was burnt during various fires over time. While the chart is clean and...
