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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: News visualization during World War I

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. News visualization during World War I. If you're interested in the history of news graphics, you'll be excited about this. Pedro Pérez Cuadrado, Belén Puebla (both from the University Rey Juan Carlos, in Spain) and Laura González (from U. San Pablo CEU) are the authors of ‘Armando Guerra, the Mapmaker Who Saved a Newspaper’. Originally published in the Malofiej 22th book. The same authors published an academic paper.

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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: Line charts aren't just for time series data

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. Thursday, April 2, 2015. Line charts aren't just for time series data. Below is getting a lot of attention today. It's true, as Katie and others suggest in the discussion, that the chart can be better —. Why ordering the music genre that way, to begin with? But line charts aren't just for time series data. This is a very common misconception; I still remember my Math middle school teacher telling me exactly that, back in the Pleistocene (ahem)! This being s...

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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: New graduate offering at UM: Data Journalism and Visualization

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. New graduate offering at UM: Data Journalism and Visualization. I'm happy to announce that the School of Communication. At the University of Miami is launching a new Data Journalism and Visualization track. Within our MFA in Interactive Media. It will begin in the Fall of 2015. Applications will likely be open very soon after it receives all required official approvals, so stay tuned. UPDATE (DECEMBER 20, 2014):. I will, in mos...

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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: Student projects and the future of visualization at UM

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. Monday, May 11, 2015. Student projects and the future of visualization at UM. I should pay more attention to competitions and awards. Our University of Miami. Has just won first place in the infographics category of the SND Student Contest. With a data project he made for my class in the Fall 2014 semester. See it below. He submitted this without my knowing, so it was a complete surprise. The other awards were won by students from UNC-Chapel Hill. Besides a...

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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: Tutorials & Resources

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. These videos will show you how I designed several of the graphs and maps showcased in The Truthful Art. This is the workflow I will outline:. Visualization with INZight Illustrator. 8212; Download the data. Tweaking your data: Wide to long format (plus a bit about pivot tables). 8212;This tutorial is based on this article. 8212; Tidy data. An article by Hadley Wickham. 8212; Download the data. Gapminder charts with iNZight. FIFTH TUTORIAL (coming soon).

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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: The useful is never different from the beautiful

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. Monday, June 22, 2015. The useful is never different from the beautiful. I gave a presentation about data journalism and visualization at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In Lviv, which anticipates a few points you'll see in The Truthful Art. I began by quoting an engraving I saw in a building in Rynok Square. And that applies to what we do: “The useful is never different from the beautiful.” The talk is on Youtube. In case you're interested:.

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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: Radar graphs: Avoid them (99.9% of the time)

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Radar graphs: Avoid them (99.9% of the time). Stephen Few doesn't like radar graphs. And he's not the only one. Who has written against them. In a recent discussion on Twitter, Jon Peltier. Said that they are "worse than pies" —ouch! Even Andy Kirk, who is usually as polite as a British gentleman can be, doesn't have nice words. About this kind of display. The goal of both displays is to make a point: Votes for each party tend to...

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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: The stickiness of visualization conventions

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. Monday, July 13, 2015. The stickiness of visualization conventions. Visualization conventions are as sticky as any other kind of convention. But stickiness isn't a proxy for goodness. We shouldn't use a graphic form uncritically just because it has become the default to represent a specific kind of data. Tradition alone isn't a good textbook. But one day I actually tried to read. To be able to mentally. NOTE: I made a slope chart. July 13, 2015 at 9:44 AM.

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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: Mike Bostock's beautiful examples

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. Sunday, July 7, 2013. Mike Bostock's beautiful examples. Eyeo 2013 - Mike Bostock. One of the things that amazes me about the fields related to infographics and visualization (scientific visualization, information visualization, data visualization, news graphics, information design, etc.) is that they tend to attract people with a keen willingness to share all they know, and help others. I mentioned that in the interview with John Grimwade. Read it for free.

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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: Why I'm canceling my subscription to The New York Times

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The Truthful Art book. The Functional Art book. Friday, May 8, 2015. Why I'm canceling my subscription to The New York Times. UPDATE, December 10, 2015: I have resumed by subscription after the Times published this. In its front page.). In different circumstances, I'd have kept this private, but I think that I'll make an exception: I'm canceling my subscription to The New York Times. Instead, the Times. Leaned toward the “yes, but.” stance. Charlie Hebdo viciously and regularly ridiculed. Catholicism, Ju...