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Posts tagged Infographics.

World Subways at Scale

Neil Freeman over at Fake is the new Real has done us all the great service of drawing world subway systems at scale.

New York Subways, at scale
New York
London Subways, at scale
London
Paris Subways, at scale
Paris
Tokyo Subways, at scale
Tokyo
Moscow Subways, at scale
Moscow
San Francisco Subways, at scale
And finally, my local system, the relatively pathetic-looking San Francisco MUNI/BART system

See many more world subway systems at scale right here. Thanks to Adwait for the tip.

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PaulFeb 3, 2012
 

Money: A summary

Visualizing money, from the daily interest on the average American's credit card debt to the total value of the world's proven oil reserves, in four easy steps.

I recently ran across an amazing infographic at xkcd. I have summarized it below.

Money: a summary
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PaulDec 16, 2011
 

Where’s the Water?

A recent Good infographic called to mind one of DLB's perennial favorite candidates for good design, the status of clean drinking water.

Detail from Lack of Clean Water Access World Wide, GOOD Infographic

According to the United Nations, unsanitary water kills more people worldwide than war. As the precious water supply dwindles, it may prove to be more than just a crisis for developing countries.

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PaulJul 8, 2011
 

An Education in For-Profit Education

I've been meaning to post this awesome info-cartoon from Susie Cagle, graphic journalist for a while now.

An Education in For-Profit Education

Via, and by.

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PaulJun 10, 2011
 

U.S. Foreign Aid

Most Americans think the U.S. dedicates 25% of its federal budget to foreign aid spending, and thinks the U.S. should cut spending to 10%. The actual percentage of the budget spent on aid is 0.6%. This is something of a puzzler.

Ever since the recent Japanese Tsunami, I've been trying to think about whether graphic design efforts to generate donations to foreign disasters are good. (Spoiler: I haven't decided.)

In the process of thinking about it, though, I ran across a nice infographic from Good that has to do with U.S. Foreign Aid.

Good: US Foreign Aid Infographic (detail)

Here's the interesting thing. If I'm reading this infographic right, the average American thinks that the fed is spending a quarter out of every dollar in the federal budget on foreign aid, and he thinks it should spend a dime. In fact, the US spends roughly a penny out of every two dollars.

What does this mean? Isn't this the age of information?

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PaulMay 6, 2011
 

Infographics in Context

A project by Danish designer Peter Orntoft, which attempts to take data visualization off the page.

Interest no. 6: "The focus of the interest deals with gang related crime and whether the Danes have changed behavior because of it."

Interest no.4: "The focus of the interest deals with whether or not the Danes think it's ethical to wear religious symbols in public professions."

Orntoff's Infographics project attempts to put data into context by using representative images.  I'd perhaps tweak the actual representation used to better match each data set (e.g. proportions are unclear in the second example) but the general concept is brilliant. See more images and more context at his site.

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AndreaMar 28, 2011
 

Joypad Evolution

The history of game controller design, visualized.

Steve Cable has created an nice infographic about the key design changes and innovation in game controller interfaces over time.

Joypad evolution

Getting this information together helped him make some neat observations about the design methodologies at Nintendo and Playstation.

Nintendo Controllers
Nintendo: Go big or go home

Nintendo takes a lot of risks: some work (the Wiimote), some don't (the Powerglove). Playstation plays it safer, making small changes to the design over time.

Interesting stuff. (Also make sure to check the comments for some debate about how good the research behind the graphic is.)

Take a look.

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PaulOct 22, 2010
 

GOOD Transparencies Archive

GOOD Magazine's transparency archive at Flickr is a feast for the eyes and candy for the brain. Check it out.

Once weekly, GOOD Magazine posts an infographic, or a "transparency", visualizing everything from the amount of our national acreage controlled by major retail chains (below) to the length of time people spend on popular email clients. They have now created a flickr archive of them all.

GOOD Transparency: Student Debt
Student Debt: GOOD and Futurefarmers look at the ballooning student debt in the United States.
GOOD Transparency: Retail Store Space
Retail Store Space: The biggest retailer in the world covers an area larger than Manhattan. GOOD and Futurefarmers look at "the amazing amount of space occupied by a few ubiquitous chains."
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PaulJun 12, 2009