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new york talk exchange visuals

i see you only work part time.

the second one.

lol !

That talk exchange visual is sexy™, chris.

Nice. I'll check them out when i get home

Shit, i would have thought there's be more water thank that?

saying that, it's a really big ball of water, that.

the water/earth balls? the sizes are accurate. i thought they looked small the first time i saw that graphic and wrote to a geologist pal. it's a thin-skinned planet. thin being relative, and all.

that NYT poster has packed an impressive amount of data on one page. reminds me of a science fair project. heh


i like skt's circle graph. refreshingly, it's not shiny. that's a very good thing.

i made a crude graf once proving that if you took all the people on the planet, squished them into a (messy) cube, and dropped them in the Atlantic, it would raise the water level approximately 2 cm.

and... got it.. on the "doesn't look right".

Very noice !

i've a bit of a problem with many infographics.

when the actual information is obscured or skewed in order to make a more visually attractive offering, imo, it's cheating.

• the movie graf above is an example. it's a "stacked area" chart. no problem with them smoothing the raw data to create curves.. it really does balance out and is reasonable to do. the flows get bigger as time goes forward, even though the numbers are said to be adjusted for inflation... without explanation.

they've basically ignored the x axis, too, to make it look more interesting and balanced visually. i understand that it's the patterns that are the point, but they lost me when i realized they were messing with it to make it look better.

• the NYT poster is accurate and informative, if dense and seems to make the common mistake of trying to put too much information on one page.


• the website traffic map LOOKS to be even more obscure and without much real information, until you read the key and know that the flow IS the point, and the graf was designed to assist information architects (a great job description, btw) in their conceptualizing site design.


i like infographics a lot, but the chart has to give real, accurate information for it to seem of any value to me.

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Last one was awesome!

Massive version

Human trafficking

this disturbing poster examines global human trafficking.
"It depicts each country's level of involvement (from Very High to Very Low) as either a country of destination or origin. The project concentrates on the smuggling of people from one country to another - mainly illegally. In many cases these people are forced to do work that is illegal, such as prostitution or child labor."

Massive version

lol @ that last one

lol, resizing the image using "width=" in the post is cheating!

^ wtf?

kind of infographics - not beautiful but does what it says on the tin

my w.i.p.

A bit old but still great

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