I have just started reading Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information. In the first few pages he discusses how we are immersed in a three dimensional world, but our data is stuck on two dimensions, whether on the screen or on paper (3D effects on bars or charts with a third axis do not count..) The concept …
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for: ‘December, 2009’
What the customer needed..
It’s pretty much inconceivable if you work in software that you haven’t seen this picture posted up in your lunch room at some point. It is of course a witty look at why the software process doesn’t always produce the expected functionality in the most elegant and economical fashion. Depicted are a variety of parties …
#uksnow – plotting Tweets on a map
The UK is currently having its once every ten years snowfall. Like many places that rarely get snow, this is not only a big deal, but makes travel near impossible. There will be SUVs littering the ditches by day break.. What has been interesting is watching how social media reports this – one person has taken this …
Charting data with one disproportionally large value
Datavis tweeted about a fun chart he found comparing ‘kills’ between the top animals – I’m not sure the data are meant to be real or what ‘kills’ means, but the point is made that humans are by far the worst offenders. Part of the emphasis is that the human number is literally ‘off the …
