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 [...]