25.11.2008 info visualization, silliness No Comments

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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13.11.2008 ia/uxd methods, info visualization No Comments

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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30.10.2008 info visualization 1 Comment

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 data visualization (both interactive and print), offers a nicely designed map [...]

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