Everyone’s fascinated with animated graphics, which is cool, but sometimes a series of a whole bunch of maps is just as good. Archie Tse of The New York Times shows the spread of oil over time as several static maps to complement the animated version. Nice, right? You can see the changes from start to finish at a glance.
[New York Times via @mericson]
I like that a lot… and totally apropos to something I’m working on now!
Also, I almost missed all the tabs across the top of that NYTimes spread. (e.g. “where oil has made landfall”, “efforts to stop the leak”,…). There’s a tremendous amount of well-presented information there.
Effectiveness of Animation in Trend Visualization
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=64262