18. This is one of the first questions we should ask
about any dataset: What is missing?
What can we learn from the gaps?
Jer Thorp
https://twitter.com/chris_swift/status/430688880484831232
23. John Snow’s cholera map
Florence Nightingale
Napoleon’s march
William Playfair invented the bar chart
What would Tufte say?
3D Pie charts are not very good
Tall infographics are everywhere…
Red-green colour blindness
Funny xkcd comic
Outrageous maze creation algorithm
Random musical interruption
Heart-stopping live demo
✔
44. The single most overlooked element in
visual design is emptiness… [but] space
must look deliberately used.
Alex White
‘The Elements of Graphic Design’ by Alex White, pg 65
61. You know you’ve achieved perfection in design,
not when you have nothing more to add, but
when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
64. Changing Face of America, by NBC Nightly News
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3029318/design-crime/the-worst-infographic-of-2014-so-far
65. Guidance to the user is needed most at the
moment the statistics are first made public. The
news media look to the statistical release to
provide an objective account of the statistics.
They may regard the absence of such text as
indicative of partisan influence.
Saying nothing is not necessarily politically
neutral.
Richard Alldritt, UK Statistics Authority
http://www.statsusernet.org.uk/blogs/richard-alldritt/2012/05/17/a-word-about-numbers
68. Thank you…
Contributors: Lynn Cherny, Santiago Ortiz, Kim Rees,
Francis Gagnon, Tony Hurst, Jane Pong, Erik Boertjes,
Carl Manaster, Nigel Hawtin, Deb Grebenc, Alan Smith
The Vine army: @brunodagnino, @mapitup,
@hyperion_hq, @lorgmedia, @jcukier, @andrea_paolini,
@maralllo, @justadddesign, @stefpos, @giorgialupi,
@alignedleft, @stinabacker, @infotrafford, @wiederkehr,
@danielsouza, @chezvoila, @albertocairo, @arnicas,
@ireneros
And, of course, the very wise OpenVisConf committee!