Infographic: Evolving Attitudes About Interracial Marriage
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The Small Business Checklist
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The Cost of Raising a Child
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What makes a visualization good? Part I
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BuzzData has posted the first piece in a series on “What makes a good visualization”, starting with a focus on Microsoft’s “Pivot“.
Personally speaking, I think both McKinney and Garkusha were homing in on one central point about creating data visualizations — the most telling criterion of a “good” or “bad” viz is whether or not it’s apparent the creator considered what is relevant (or worth learning) in their data, for whom, and of course, which design or tool is the right way to communicate it.
It’s a bit meandering, but seems to be trying to get to the crux of “How do you quantify what makes a visualization good?” A good start to what will hopefully be an interesting series.
via BuzzData | Blog, What makes a visualization good? Part I.
An Interview With Nicholas Felton
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Rhizome has a nice short interview up with infographic & data designer Nicholas Felton about how he came into the field and where he got the idea for his popular “Annual Report”.
I read Catch 22 while I was in Japan, and it kind of changed it for me, thinking about Japan’s WWII experience, and I was reading about Italian fear of war, and it became very visual for me – there were a lot of weird conversations that were hard to put together on the page. I made maps of that stuff, and eventually I was treating Catch 22 like it was real, and making artifacts from it. In the spirit of Catch 22 I made artifacts that weren’t in the book, but came out of that contradictory world. That’s when I felt like I was always going to be bound to the book; if you hadn’t read it then the things that I made were kind of disappointing. I think thats why I was looking for better sources. The next project I made was a postcard project, where my girlfriend and I at the time took our activities in New York and transposed that onto an imaginary road trip. So that was kind of a blend of this world and a fictional world, and that was probably my first trial with taking day to day experience and turning it into a design exercise.
via Rhizome | Storytelling: An Interview With Nicholas Felton.
The State of Tax Extensions
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