{"id":12331,"date":"2007-04-27T08:05:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T08:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/04\/adventures-in-infographics.html"},"modified":"2007-04-27T08:05:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T08:05:22","slug":"adventures_in_infographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/27\/adventures_in_infographics\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Infographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m intrigued by work that strives to make sense of large, complicated sets of data (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2005\/10\/burrowing_throu.html\">see<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2005\/12\/ae_flash_maya.html\">previous<\/a>).&#160; Along those lines: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/396-helpful-distortion-at-nyc-london-subway-maps\">London-style NYC subway map<\/a> is generating a lot of conversation, both online &amp; inside Adobe.&#160; Weird, I remember discussing this exact topic when I first started at an NY Web shop&#8211;nine years ago!&#160; Bridge engineering manager Arno Gourdol points out <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mr-Becks-Underground-Map-Garland\/dp\/1854141686\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-5454061-6672126?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1177620579&amp;sr=8-1\">Mr. Beck&#8217;s Underground Map<\/a><\/em>, a thorough account of the Tube map design.&#160; And from there I found <a href=\"http:\/\/owen.massey.net\/tubemaps.html\">this page<\/a>, brimming with more resources on the subject. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shebanation.com\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>PingMag <a href=\"http:\/\/pingmag.jp\/2007\/03\/23\/infosthetics-form-follows-data\/\">chats with Andrew Vande Moere<\/a>, creator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/\">Infosthetics blog<\/a>, about the beauty of data visualization.&#160; Both links are chock full of loveliness.&#160; (Bonus: <em>No<\/em> Edward Tufte w\/young white-gloved flunkies.) <\/li>\n<li>The Strange Maps blog depicts <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/14\/203\/\">right- vs. left-hand driving<\/a> around the globe, while providing the interesting back story of how these conventions came to be. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/02\/12799.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Covering 5000 years in 90 seconds, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofwar.com\/images\/EMPIRE17.swf\">Maps of War<\/a> shows the tides of conquest that have swept through the Middle East. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/ontheweb\/features\/2007\/02\/autumn200702\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The US government gets into the game, using census data to drive home the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/cgi-bin\/ipc\/idbpyrs.pl?cty=US&amp;out=d&amp;ymax=250\">aging of the populace<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>I dig illustrator Christoph Niemann&#8217;s witty little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophniemann.com\/man\/illus\/GB06\/GB06_3.gif\">visual comparison<\/a> of some pieces of music.&#160; (I&#8217;m a <em>Jaws<\/em>-level pianist at best.)<\/li>\n<li>Pentagram designer Paula Scher created this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pentagram.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/portrait_of_a_blog.php\">anatomy of a blog conversation<\/a> for the <em>NYT<\/em>. Ahh, the descent into ennui&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/04\/13161.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>At FITC last weekend I really enjoyed meeting Evan Roth, the dude behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ni9e.com\/\">SkyMall demographic visualization<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/?page_id=76#video\">laser graffiti<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ycnonline.com\/featured_view.php?FeatureID=222\">much more<\/a>. Though I&#8217;m coming up short on links to it, he&#8217;s created a method of visualizing one&#8217;s daily clicks: wiring up two USB cables from a single mouse, plugging one into a main work computer, and plugging the other into a machine running Photoshop or other graphics app.&#160; As you click around email, the Web, etc., you produce a drawing (of sorts) on the other machine, with paint blobs mapped to the same coordinates as your clicks.&#160; (It sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/AttenTV+turns+Web+surfing+into+eerie+spectator+sport\/2100-1032-6178208.html?part=dht&amp;tag=nl.e703\">AttenTV<\/a>&#160;might be doing vaguely similar, for profit.)&#160; Oh, and  bringing this post full circle, Evan&#8217;s crew at <a href=\"http:\/\/research.eyebeam.org\/projects\">Eyebeam<\/a> has created an <a href=\"http:\/\/nycsubway.eyebeamresearch.org\/\">interactive NYC subway map<\/a>.\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m intrigued by work that strives to make sense of large, complicated sets of data (see previous).&#160; Along those lines: This London-style NYC subway map is generating a lot of conversation, both online &amp; inside Adobe.&#160; Weird, I remember discussing this exact topic when I first started at an NY Web shop&#8211;nine years ago!&#160; Bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}