Cool Infographics has a nice interview online with Nathaniel Pearlman, president of Timeplots, LLC, the company behind the “Visual History of the American President” and “Visual History of the Supreme Court”.
Cool Infographics: What software applications do you use for the Timeplots posters?
Nathaniel Pearlman: So far we have programmed our graphics in the R language and done some final design work in Illustrator. I’m interested in hearing about other platforms to use for complex data and layout — especially other software applications that would allow us to create interactive and print versions from the same code base.