Last week at the PSFK conference I watched Nicholas Felton present his 2009 Feltron annual report. He has been preparing annual reports about his life since 2005. This involves him gathering enormous amounts of data about what he does every day. He then visualizes that data in his annual reports which really are pieces of [...]
Just to prove that the graphic presentation is new, take a look at this selection of images from BibliOdyssesy, a blog devoted to “amazing archival images from the internet”. (There’s a book too.) The image above is titled, “A timetable indicating the differences in time between the principle cities of the world”, with their air [...]
Monday I wrote a post about a very annoying graph that keeps popping up in Keynote presentations. Edward Tufte invented the concept of Chart Junk. His most famous work – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information was published in 1983. It is probably the most important book ever written on data visualization. It made the [...]
The New York Times created an interactive map that shows where the outbreaks of the Swine Flue are located.
These types of epidemiological maps have been around for a while. In fact, they were the very first examples of geographic representations of data. Probably the most famous example is John Snow’s map of the 1854 Cholera outbreak in [...]