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“Companies find it hard to get hands on their own data”

Marketing departments demand fancy visualizations and interactive graphics, but they don’t realize they first need the data. An interview with Katy Harris and Mark Schifferli from the design studio Fathom.

Benjamin Bollmann
May 18, 2012

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Five rare books by the pioneers of information design

Long forgotten despite the quality of their infographics, these 20th century atlases and manuals had fallen into oblivion until rediscovered by Michael Stoll. This is what he found.

Michael Stoll
May 1, 2012

Flight thru Instruments Navaer 00-80W-7 – An aviation training manual (Harley Earl), 1945

Hvem Hvad Hvor (Politikens Aarbog), 1934

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A glimpse into SwissInfographics Gallery

Benjamin Bollmann
April 12, 2012

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The beauty of simple pies	Swiss statistician and Wikipedia administrator Frédéric Sc (...)

“An infographist is just a visual journalist”	Michael Stoll has gathered together the largest European col (...)

1897: Swiss statisticians launch Knickgraph	The Swiss Federal Statistical Office has been publishing dat (...)

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It is easier to compare various categories with each other in a bar chart than in a pie chart.

Diagrams whose shapes and colors are reduced to the essential

Swiss land area and population density.

Chart used during the protests.

Paths taken by viral messages. The thicker a line, the more retweets that connection generated.The larger the node, the more retweets that user's participation generated.

Successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered.