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Zombie movies = economic barometer

Just saw this today via Information Design Watch. Apparently there’s a correlation between the nastiness of the eco-political environment around us and the production of zombie movies. One can imagine the studios are already hard at work for next year!


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Flow charting the bailout

Great design doesn’t make it less depressing, unfortunately. Continued… see the whole scary story on Mint.com.


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Mapping the political landscape

Maps depicting the current standings in Electoral College votes for the presidency are in every newspaper. We are accustomed to viewing the political landscape in state-sized chunks, since that’s how the final votes are tallied. The New York Times, in my opinion a leader in…


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Using sliders to filter results

Sliders in web design are becoming as ubiquitous as the fading yellow highlight. They certainly offer a more interesting and sophisticated way of interacting with a lengthy data set (remember the old days: choose from a drop-down, click Submit, wait, look at new page, click…


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The human side of statistics: two crime-mapping websites

I’m intrigued by the complexity of presenting statistics on a map, and in my research I’ve come across two compelling but different approaches to mapping crime data: Oakland Crimespotting and the LA Times Homicide Map. Oakland Crimespotting Created by Stamen Design, Oakland Crimespotting uses data…


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