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  • Playful Infographics Triumph Over Pure Analytics (Sometimes) Playful Infographics Triumph Over Pure Analytics (Sometimes)

    The New York Times shows how presidential candidates have spent more than $900 million so far with this bubbly graphic by Lee Byron, Hannah Fairfield and Griff Palmer. The area …
  • Why Should Engineers and Scientists Care About Color (and Design)? Why Should Engineers and Scientists Care About Color (and Design)?

    I studied electrical engineering and computer science in undergrad and now as a stat student, I still work with a lot of engineers and scientists. Something that has always confused …
  • A Little Bit of Design Goes a Long Way With Infographics A Little Bit of Design Goes a Long Way With Infographics

    If I've learned anything about designing information graphics, it's that attention to detail and small changes make a mediocre graphic into a really useful and usually more attractive one. It's …
  • A Chat with The New York Times on Making Data More Engaging

    Everybody knows about The New York Times graphics. Here are two people that their hand in a lot of it.
  • Symbiosis of Engineering, Statistics, Design and Data Visualization

    Andrew Vande Moere writes in his 2005 paper Form Follows Data: [W]e can perceive a current trend in portable input and output devices that trace, store and make users aware …
  • Bars as an Alternative to Bubble Charts Bars as an Alternative to Bubble Charts

    Are bubble charts effective? This seems to be a recurring question. Some say people suck at comparing areas in the form of bubbles, or rather, people are horrible with …
  • John Maeda Speaks About Simplicity

    John Maeda, a professor in the MIT Media Lab, gives his talk on simplicity and how it plays a role in his position between technology and art. I read …
  • Displaying Data as Efficiently as Possible Displaying Data as Efficiently as Possible

    The above picture isn't totally related, but I just had to put it up. It's so amusing. A family of five plus groceries on one motorcycle! I think there's …
  • Creating Effective Visualization

    What makes a visualization good? It allows people to see what they never would have seen otherwise? It's pretty? The visualization is interactive? Simple? Probably all of the above, and …

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