Comments on: Winner of Tufte Books and Many Other Good Entries

By: How to Make a Graph in Adobe Illustrator « erik albin dahl

How to Make a Graph in Adobe Illustrator « erik albin dahl — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:20:21 +0000

[...] In the rest of this post, I’ll go over the steps to make the above graph in Illustrator. I used the U.S. immigration data from our recent contest. [...]

By: Lawyers in immigration

Lawyers in immigration — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:34:13 +0000

Great contest.Its a great idea. Pls make more contest regularly.

By: Visualize This: Poverty Rate By Age in America | Padub

Visualize This: Poverty Rate By Age in America | Padub — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:51:22 +0000

[...] (graph, chart, map, infographic, animation, etc), and post your work to the thread. As we’ve seen already, there are many ways to visualize a single dataset, and with multiple pairs of eyes, we get [...]

By: Flowingdata visualization competition » Justkez

Flowingdata visualization competition » Justkez — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:02:35 +0000

[...] Flowingdata recently ran a competition to improve a graph representing US immigration from the worlds’ continents over time. I sent in a percentage share graph which, whilst appears in the list, pales in comparison to the other entries: [...]

By: Immigration &#8212 Matt’s Waste of Your Time

Immigration &#8212 Matt’s Waste of Your Time — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:22:45 +0000

[...] FlowingData has a large collection of immigration visualizations, too. December 17, 2008 Tags: history [...]

By: Designtraining blog » ÐÑ€Ñ…Ð¸Ð² Ð±Ð»Ð¾Ð³Ð° » How to Make a Graph in Adobe Illustrator

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:07:04 +0000

[...] In the rest of this post, I’ll go over the steps to make the above graph in Illustrator. I used the U.S. immigration data from our recent contest. [...]

By: Dan Murray

Dan Murray — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:56:28 +0000

I enjoyed submitting and really enjoyed the many approaches taken, particularly the use of annotation to tell a story. Please, do more of these!

By: And the winner is….. | Vectart

And the winner is….. | Vectart — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:52:33 +0000

[...] de hitos historicos que aportan una visiÃ³n mÃ¡s profunda de las causas de las migraciones. En la pÃ¡gina de los resultados se pueden ver otros trabajos participantes en el concurso, Â¿cual habrÃas elegido [...]

By: links for 2008-12-12 at dekay.org

links for 2008-12-12 at dekay.org — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:02:55 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:57:29 +0000

I enjoyed looking at visualizations. It reinforces in my mind the fact that any visualization will make some compromise in that in will emphasize one thing or another. While this may be the intent of the graphic creator, it leads to bias. The original data should always be available as a reference.

Different people emphasized different aspects of the data. In whole, the different versions let me see things that I didn’t notice when I first looked at the data. I didn’t get a chance to play with the interactive versions, but that certainly seems a compromise between presenting a static interpretation of the data and forcing the user to pore through the data to create their own visualization. I guess in most cases, we all probably tried different approaches before settling on our final entry but that doesn’t benefit the viewer. An interactive presentation bridges the gap.