Posts filed under “criticism”
Let's Keep Symbol Maps Clean And Tidy
In his great blog The Daily Viz Matt Stiles recently posted this map of US crime rates. The map shows murder rates in different cities as bubble symbols and it strongly reminded me to write about the problem of overlapping map symbols.
Take Care of your Choropleth Maps
Over the last week I had some fun playing with choropleth maps. Thereby I analyzed the following US poverty map, which was recently published at the Guardian data blog: To be honest, the first time I saw this map I didn't thought much about it. Ok, poverty is highest in south central of the United [...]
Facebook And Its Impact In Connecting People
You probably remember this map of Facebook friendships, which made it's way through the web in December 2010. In this related article, the creator and Facebook intern Paul Butler explains the process of rendering the map. The most interesting remark he made can be found in the last sentence: It's not just a pretty picture, [...]
Why I Hate Coding With Processing – At Least Sometimes..Why I Hate Coding With Processing – At Least Sometimes..
Well, as all of you might know, Processing is cool and easy to learn, especially for graphic designers and makers of all kinds, and finally, Processing is a fun thing to work with. Really? Actually this is not quite the experience I get whenever I start sketching a visualization. Yesterday was such a day, when [...]
Looking at Mistakes in Infographics: The Profile of Italian Poverty
I just found the link to an infographic on Italian Poverty via @datavis. Before looking at the graphic I was interessted about how they pointed out the well known fact that in Italien the north is very rich compared to the south. So actually I expected a map or something, but the creator of the [...]
Seltsame Anomalien in den Schlachtungsstatistiken
Nachdem heute der EU-Rat mit Unterstützung der deutschen Regierung erfolgreich die Kennzeichnungspflicht von Klonfleisch verhindert hat, wollte ich ja eigentlich nur eine kleine interaktive Grafik zu den Tierschlachtungen in Deutschland basteln. Nur um mal zu sehen, wieviele Tiere wir eigentlich so schlachten und wie sich die Zahlen über die Jahre so entwickeln. Als ersten Schritt [...]
Arme missbrauchte Klickstrecke
WELT ONLINE braucht wohl dringend jemanden, der ihnen Infografiken bastelt. Einen schlechteren “Überblick” über Zahlen als in diesem Artikel hat es seit Menschengedenken noch nicht gegeben. Dabei wäre es so einfach gewesen. Fünf Minuten Arbeit reichen aus, um mit OpenOffice Calc ein nettes kleines Diagramm aus der Zahlenkolonne zu basteln..
Omitting Greenland Won't Fix Your Mercator Map
Yesterday I read an interesting article in the "AI Journal", which is the german news journal of amnesty international. It was about how many people in the world having internet access and how some governments and companies are censoring internet content. Thereby I saw this map: Thanks to the Mercator projection, the European countries are [...]