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!
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…
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…
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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