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Blog 2016

Robert Kosara / December 29, 2016

A Roundup of Year-End News Graphics Roundups

The end of the year is always a good time to look back at the great work done in the world of news graphics – and this year in particular, to relive all the heartbreak and disillusionment. Here is a list of year-end news graphics round-ups for your enjoyment and edification. [Read more…] about A Roundup of Year-End News Graphics Roundups

Robert Kosara / December 26, 2016

The Dumbest User Interface of 2016

It is my great honor and pleasure to announce the winner of the Worst User Interface Award 2016: it goes to the new chip-enabled credit card terminals introduced in the U.S. this year. My congratulations, as it is very well deserved. [Read more…] about The Dumbest User Interface of 2016

Robert Kosara / December 18, 2016

When Rankings Are Just Data Porn

Rankings are a common way of talking about data: who made the most money, who won the most medals, etc. But they hide issues in the underlying data. Is the difference between first and second meaningful or just noise? Here is a data video that nicely demonstrates the problem. [Read more…] about When Rankings Are Just Data Porn

Robert Kosara / December 6, 2016

The EagerEyes Holiday Shopping Guide

Are you looking for the perfect gift for the data or visualization geek in your life? Did that crazy self-driving water bottle Kickstarter still not deliver, leaving you hunting for an overpriced Nintendo Classic? The EagerEyes Holiday Shopping Guide has all the geeky, uncool gifts you could possibly want. [Read more…] about The EagerEyes Holiday Shopping Guide

Robert Kosara / November 27, 2016

The Problem with Vis Taxonomies

Most taxonomies in visualization and HCI are useless. They carve up the space, but they don’t provide new insights or make predictions. Designing a useful taxonomy is a difficult problem, but that’s no excuse for publishing lots of mediocre ones. [Read more…] about The Problem with Vis Taxonomies

Robert Kosara / November 20, 2016

RJ Andrews’ Profiling the Parks

RJ Andrews has created a great little video about the National Parks in the U.S. Have you ever thought about how the different parks compare? Which one is wider, which one is deeper, which one’s at higher or lower elevation?

[Read more…] about RJ Andrews’ Profiling the Parks

Robert Kosara / November 9, 2016

Graphic Continuum Flash Cards

Jon Schwabish and Severino Ribecca have turned their Graphic Continuum poster into a set of cards. They’re a good way to expand your visual vocabulary and find new ideas for how to represent your data. [Read more…] about Graphic Continuum Flash Cards

Robert Kosara / November 6, 2016

Ten Great Talks at Information+ 2016

The Information+ Conference took place in Vancouver earlier this year. It brought together people from information visualization and information design (and design more in general). All of the talk videos are online on the website, but since there were a lot and it’s kind of hard to decide where to start watching, I’m listing my favorites below. [Read more…] about Ten Great Talks at Information+ 2016

Robert Kosara / November 2, 2016

All Those Misleading Election Maps

Would you make a bar chart where the length of the bar doesn’t actually scale with the number being shown? Would you draw a line chart with the lines all over the place, not where the values actually are? Of course not. Yet somehow, every single election map works like that. [Read more…] about All Those Misleading Election Maps

Robert Kosara / November 1, 2016

VIS 2016 – Thursday, Friday: Empirical Methods, Better Presentations

A panel on empirical methods, papers on time series, and perhaps the best capstone at VIS ever rounded out the conference on Thursday and Friday. [Read more…] about VIS 2016 – Thursday, Friday: Empirical Methods, Better Presentations

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