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Archives for February 2012

The Bikini Chart

Robert Kosara / February 29, 2012

The Bikini Chart

The Obama administration released a chart a while ago that shows job losses during the last year of the Bush administration and the first year after Obama took office. The chart is simple yet effective in the way it communicates a message. It also has some very subtle design elements that communicate a much more negative undertone than is immediately obvious. [Read more…] about The Bikini Chart

Quo Vadis, Many Eyes?

Robert Kosara / February 26, 2012

Quo Vadis, Many Eyes?

Remember when visualization for the masses was all the rage, back in 2007? We were so young and hopeful. Many Eyes and Swivel were the harbingers of a new age of data literacy and well-informed debate. Visualization was going to be social and change the world. Alas, it was not to last. Swivel is gone, and Many Eyes clearly seen its best days. This is despite the fact that interest in visualization is growing, and it turns out that Many Eyes is as busy now as never before. I have scraped some data from the site that shows that despite the lack of updates and new features, people’s use of it is still increasing. The data also gives some interesting insights into what people use it for.

[Read more…] about Quo Vadis, Many Eyes?

Robert Kosara / February 21, 2012

Another Metaphor for Visualization: Writing

Andrew Gelman recently wrote a blog posting in which he draws an interesting comparison between writing styles and graphics styles. I think he’s on to something, and the comparison can be taken a bit further to illustrate some common misunderstandings around visualization. [Read more…] about Another Metaphor for Visualization: Writing

Robert Kosara / February 8, 2012

Watchlist: Jessica Hullman

Among the papers that stood out at InfoVis 2011 were two that shared an author, and that were presented in the same session by the same person: Jessica Hullman. These papers were Benefitting InfoVis with Visual Difficulties (with Eytan Adar and Priti Shah) and Visualization Rhetoric: Framing Effects in Narrative Visualization (with Nicholas Diakopoulos). [Read more…] about Watchlist: Jessica Hullman

Graphs Beyond the Hairball

Robert Kosara / February 1, 2012

Graphs Beyond the Hairball

Networks are usually drawn using a technique called node-link diagrams. While that works well for small graphs (the technical name for networks), it breaks down beyond a few dozen nodes. Better techniques exist, though these are currently focused on specific types of graphs or answer particular questions. [Read more…] about Graphs Beyond the Hairball

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