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kottke.org posts about infoviz

Philip Stewart has constructed an alternate version of the periodic table of elements in the form of a “chemical galaxy”. “The intention is not to replace the familiar table, but to complement it and at the same time to stimulate the imagination and to evoke wonder at the order underlying the universe.”


Quick sketch of London tube traffic patterns. The spider that ate London.


The trophies for the Contagious Media Showdown were printed on Eyebeam’s 3-D printer. But even better, each trophy had that winning site’s traffic graph printed on it…the trophy for big winner Forget-Me-Not Panties is on the right.


A visual history of sampling; who’s been sampled and who’s doing the sampling.


Sparklines of landscapes of a few American states. The one for Missouri has a little arch while the Iowa sparkline is almost flat.


Long interview with Edward Tufte from Technical Communication Quarterly.


“A campaign for the Portuguese political magazine Grande Reportagem … turns flags of various countries into infographics by adding a legend”. For the US flag: “Red: In favor of the war in Iraq, White: Against the war in Iraq, Blue: Don’t know where Iraq is.”


An outline of Edward Tufte’s three books on information display.


Chapter on sparklines

Tufte has revised his chapter on sparklines. Sparklines are “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”.


Sparklines

Sparklines are “intense word-sized graphics”. From Tufte’s upcoming book, Beautiful Evidence