information design ideas

Stumbled across this on one of my favorite political blogs, fivethirtyeight.com.  Aside from the personal satisfaction I get from seeing the color blue, I think it’s a really neat way to show a pretty complicated data set.  See if you can guess what it represents before you follow the link.

If you don’t pay attention to the problem of population distribution in the United States, this is what happens:

Clearly, Ludacris hasn’t seduced half of Nebraska.  Nothing a little design can’t fix!

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