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Before adding all the interaction you can imagine, think!

By Bas Broekhuizen Posted on 26.02.2011 Posted in Visualization No Comments

Andrew and Louis are two computer engineers from Minneapolis who wanted to know where their tax money went. So they collected the data and put them on WhatWePayFor.com. That are a lot of data. So now Google and art and …

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Tagged with: economy, explanimation, politics, taxes, US

Slick sites with sad stories

By Bas Broekhuizen Posted on 18.11.2010 Posted in Visualization No Comments

Two impressive map mashups were released this week. The Magnum Foundation unveiled a website for its Emergency Fund. It showcases the work of photographers who document social issues worldwide. The site is not quite finished. A lot of information is …

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Tagged with: developing countries, economy, human rights, map

Revealing answers instead of data

By Bas Broekhuizen Posted on 02.11.2010 Posted in Visualization No Comments

Last week I wrote about interactive modalities (clicking, hovering, dragging, etc.) and their functions. Probably the most important function of interactivity in infographics is hiding or revealing information, especially in case of multidimensional data. But hiding information can also detach …

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Tagged with: diagram, economy

Banks that went bust

By Bas Broekhuizen Posted on 28.09.2010 Posted in Blog No Comments

The financial crisis may be well over its peak, in the United States banks keep collapsing every month. The Wall Street Journal mapped all bank failures since January 2008. The timeline automatically starts to play as soon as the application …

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Tagged with: economy, map, US

Bacon and beyond

By Bas Broekhuizen Posted on 21.09.2010 Posted in Blog No Comments

It’s a classic in network theory. The Oracle of Bacon illustrates the small world phenomenon by showing how each actor or actress within six steps is connected to Kevin Bacon. Now the Notable Names Database does something similar for all …

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Tagged with: celebrities, culture, economy, network, politics

Ranking the nations

By Bas Broekhuizen Posted on 17.09.2010 Posted in Blog No Comments

The best country to live in is Finland. Newsweek created an interactive to compare the worlds top 100 nations on topics like health, education and economy. It’s a nice looking flash-app, but you can only compare two countries at a …

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Tagged with: charts, economy

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