DDD INFOGRAPHIC

Heres a gallery of every crazy map projection you can imagine as vector PDFs

York University Psychology professor Michael Friendly has compiled an enlightening page of links to fascinating and famous visualization of time and information as well as a galleries of other statistical graphs.

A partnership between Triple D and Walid Raad for Bidoun explores the results of the U.N.’s investigation into the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, known as “The Melhis Report.”

Bryan Christie’s inspiring work has appeared in Wired, NYT, Newsweek and elsewhere

Goes to United Technologies

Anyof you who have tried to deal with the .eps files generated from ArcView in illustrator know what a pain it can be if the original data is more detailed that illlustrator wants to handle. Programmer/Cartographer Matthew Bloch to the rescue. He has created a flash program that allows you to upload files, simplify them and then download a new shapefile. Now if he’ll just add a flash export!! -

http://www.mapshaper.org/blog/index.php

A digital artist in the truest sense of the word, Mr. Harris uses dynamic data heavy web-based presentations to give users new perspective on the modern world. From projects for Princeton University’s International Network‘s Archive to the tantalizing news aggregator Phoylotaxis, Harris is clearly at the forefront of a generation of functional, digital artists who see thier role as central to society rather than on the outskirts.

His work

A fasinating collection of network visualizations

3D interactive maps of each stage of the 2006 Tour de France

cybergeography.org wharehouses maps and data on telecommunications

Index of OSX command line functions

Apparently some aspect of google, the Gapminder dynamic infographic makes me think its all been done

Some blogger from Switzerland wrote this applet that diagrams any website you type in. Its like an X-ray.

Some basics on using the xPath API for handling XML in Flash.

from Nate Weiss

from Jen deHaan

from Last ActionScript Hero

Create, load and work with basic XML in flash

Basics of drawing at runtime

Yet another infographics company with some great resources on thier site

Honda’s website commemorating 20 years of their robot’s evolution

UN Maps library page wharehouses thousands fo maps including:

This page breaks down UN world regions by nation

A primer on the basic map projections

World famous, The Bro Report, benefits from the cutting infographic sarcasm of DDD

The Bro Report Ministry of Statistics Volume 1

The Bro Report Ministry of Statistics Volume 2

Here’s a look at what NYU researcher Jeff Han has been up. This thing really makes me imagine:

A simple flash presentation on various GIS formats and datsets

NYT flash graphic uses real-time data to track companies and industries compared to the Standard & Poor’s Index. One of the most effective uses of a scatterplot I’ve seen (even better than this chart’s debut in the CEO compensation graphic) and some daunting actionscripting to say the least. A valuable resource and a great model for useful web infographics that self-update and can be used as a reference tool repeatedly.

Its great to see this type of work on the web, just as I was complaining that web news graphics had permanently devolved into slideshows and audio bytes.

Find stats on the top 100,000 websites displayed graphically and even do match-ups

Check out this year’s prize list and scroll to the bottom for a plethora of links to online information graphics.

A look a the spectrum of American religions, with attention to evangelicals

A website devoted to the Peter’s World map projection, which was designed to represent the surface areas of the globe’s landmasses in relative proportion.

Some DDD work published in the New York Times

Early work at the Associated Press

The Washington Post graphic tracks one aspect of the Iraq War’s campaign of misinformation.

you ever find yourself trapped inside an oceanbound capsule after falling fom the sky, or rather in a large bottle of Johnny Black after deadline.

A series of graphics discussing climate change issues from early ’05

A handsome Eckert projected World Map depicts the locations of US military actions since 1990, drawing a correlation between these areas and socio-economic development. Mr. Barnett draws a ring around the US interventions and calls it “The Non-Integrating Gap”, and refers the rest of the world as the “Functioning Core”. Maybe its a bit of a stretch. At least for an infographic, it seems a bit editorialized.

A collection of colorful cartograms that will change your worldview …

History Shots creates well reported and beautifully designed infographics

Richard Saul Wurman’s classic book, “Information Anxiety” was a great introduction to theories of simplifying information,visual and otherwise.

In a more recent project, “Understanding USA” , Wurman enlists the help of several infographic designers and has been kind enough to release the entire volume on the web in Flash.

Speaking about logarithm, check out the universe map using a logarithmic scale (Princeton University):

A logarithmic chart can be useful when you want to display data with big difference in numeric values in a chart. In the example I attached, with and without the logarithmic scale, you can see that the reader, with the regular view, cannot identify values and difference with a reasonable degree of accuracy until 1993. Using the logarithmic scale improve the resolution of the individual data points.
The chart I’m showing is Oracle, and they almost went bankruptcy in 1990. You will not see that in the linear chart.
Of course, the biggest problem is that as a whole, it will not give a correct idea of the performance of a stock (to stay with the same example). And readers are not used to this kind of charts.
I think it is OK to use it, in exceptional occasions that justify it, and as long as we make sure to highlight the fact we are using this system. And maybe it would be good to use the usual one (linear) as a small reference chart in the same graphic.
If one of you guys want to try it, you would have to use Deltagraph.