Google Crisis Response interactive map of Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
New York Times animated graphic of Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
West Wing, US TV series, discussing the Mercator vs. Peters projection issue, with a hint to the “North-up” convention issue. Cool.
rhetoric in graphic design: While tables are usually read linearly item by item, graphics are read...
While tables are usually read linearly item by item, graphics are read holistically, as a whole. That makes tables appropriate for displaying specific data, but not for showing comparisons and relationships, which are clearer in graphics.
In a case where the publication is interested in…
Makes for a great reference :-)
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Image: Copyright David McCandless, Courtesy of HarperCollins, from The Visual Miscellaneum
Tools of the trade.
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