BlinkTag Inc » information design http://blinktag.com Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:50:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 More on Information Design http://blinktag.com/more-on-information-design/ http://blinktag.com/more-on-information-design/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:40:22 +0000 Jed Horne http://blnktag.com/?p=209

You can argue that this stuff is too flashy to be useful, but if you’re bored . . .

Many Eyes

Visual Complexity

]]> http://blinktag.com/more-on-information-design/feed/ 0 information design ideas http://blinktag.com/information-design-ideas/ http://blinktag.com/information-design-ideas/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:39:13 +0000 Jed Horne http://blnktag.com/?p=207 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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