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Archives for February 2015

Link: The Graphic Continuum

Robert Kosara / February 25, 2015

Link: The Graphic Continuum

The Graphic Continuum is a poster created by Jon Schwabish and Severino Ribecca (the man behind the Data Visualisation Catalogue). It lists almost 90 different chart types and organizes them into five large groups: distribution, time, comparing categories, geospatial, part-to-whole, and relationships. Some of them are connected across groups where there are further similarities.

The poster is printed very nicely and makes for a great piece of wall art to stare at when thinking about data, and maybe to get an idea for what new visualization to try.

Link: Joint Committee on Standards for Graphic Presentation (1915)

Robert Kosara / February 18, 2015

Link: Joint Committee on Standards for Graphic Presentation (1915)

An article in the Publications of the American Statistical Association by the Joint Committee on Standards for Graphic Presentation laid down some standards for how to create good data visualizations. In 1915. The chairman of that committee was none other than Willard C. Brinton, author of the highly opinionated (and much more complete) Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts. Andy Cotgreave is collecting some tidbits and highlights from Brinton’s books.

Robert Kosara / February 11, 2015

Video: Nigel Holmes on Humor in Visualization and Infographics

In this talk, Nigel Holmes talks about the value of and use of humor in communicating visualization. He also has some interesting criticism of academic visualization research (and also some more artistic pieces). It’s a fun and interesting talk, as always with Nigel Holmes.

Link: Becksploitation: The Over-Use of a Cartographic Icon

Robert Kosara / February 4, 2015

Link: Becksploitation: The Over-Use of a Cartographic Icon

The paper Becksploitation: The Over-Use of a Cartographic Icon by Kenneth Field and William Cartwright (free pre-print PDF) in The Cartographic Journal describes the Harry Beck’s famous map of the London Underground and what makes it great. It also offers a collection of misuses of the superficial structure, and critiques them. I wish we’d had papers (and titles!) like this in visualization.

The paper is available online for free for the next twelve months, along with a selection of other Editor’s Choice papers (including Jack van Wijk’s Myriahedral Projections paper – watch the video if you haven’t seen it). [Read more…] about Link: Becksploitation: The Over-Use of a Cartographic Icon

Spelling Things Out

Robert Kosara / February 2, 2015

Spelling Things Out

When visualizing data, we often strive for efficiency: show the data, nothing else. But there can be tremendous value in redundancy to make a point and drive it home. Two recent examples from news graphics illustrate this nicely. [Read more…] about Spelling Things Out

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