Aug 17, 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser
The defiance of August Landmesser
https://twitter.com/AleemMaqbool/status/447306090087452672/photo/1 https://twitter.com/QasimNauman/status/447277789121495040/photo/1
International New York Times, weekend of 22nd/23rd March 2014
Measurements of Car Speeds in the Netherlands, by Erik Boertjes
Zero cars
Zero speed
No sensor data
Measurements of Car Speeds in the Netherlands, by Erik Boertjes
NULL ZERO BLANK INVISIBLE
NULL When ‘nothing’ becomes something
http://dojo4.com/clients/gnip
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/03/20/Foreign/Images/2014-03-20T072610Z_01_DBG270_RTRIDSP_3_MALAYSIA-AIRLINES-AUSTRALIA-10694.jpg
“We are not used to no information” BBC News, 16th March 2014
http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/latest
Billionaires, by Bloomberg
http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/decade-summary/
Metadata of Australian prints and printmaking, interactive by Mitchell Whitelaw
https://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/2013/05/22/rainfall.jpg
Holiday chill?, by South China Morning Post Graphics
“No data was recorded between 1940 and 1946”
http://pbsg.npolar.no/en/dynamic/app/
State of the Polar Bear, by Periscopic
“[The greying out] was a political statement to Russia to release the data they have about polar bears”
http://headwaterseconomics.org/interactive/west-wide-atlas
West-Wide Economic Atlas, by Headwaters Economics
“Data are sometimes withheld by the federal government to avoid the disclosure of potentially confidential information.”
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20070524_REFINERY_GRAPHIC.html
Rising Prices at the Pump, by New York Times Graphics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-25927595
Where is it Illegal to be Gay?, by BBC News Graphics
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
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/03/banksy-vancouver-nobody-likes-me/
ZERO Something to represent ‘nothing’
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer
Mapping America, by New York Times Graphics
https://twitter.com/rsimmon/status/406433840807165952/photo/1
NASA space station view of Mount Etna, via Rob Simmon
http://johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/book_images12.php
Cholera Outbreak Map, by John Snow
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
✔
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/450008187738450975/
From Pyramid to Kite, by The Economist
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3020923/how-the-red-cross-used-tweets-to-save-lives-during-hurricane-sandy
“Even a lack of postings can tell the Red Cross something. If there is a social media black hole that probably means the area needs help.”
‘Hurricane Sandy’ tweet map, by Floating Sheep
Encoding zero?
POSITION VS. AXIS
http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/the-uniform-distribution/
The Uniform Distribution, by Dark Horse Analytics LENGTH
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2013/03/04/sk-drinking-age-1303.html
Drinking Age Across Canada, by CBC News BASELINE ZERO FOR LENGTH
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/242407/EGYPT-INTERNET-BLACKOUT.jpg
The Uniform Distribution, by Dark Horse Analytics POSITION/AREA VS. AXIS
Parallel Coordinates, USDA Nutrient Database
http://exposedata.com/parallel/
POSITION/SLOPE VS. AXIS
COLOUR SHADING Hewlett Foundation Grants Tool, by Periscopic
http://www.hewlett.org/grants-tool/index
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/03/us/20090303_LEONHARDT.html
Geography of a Recession, by New York Times Graphics COLOUR SHADING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/may/08/gay-rights-united-states
TEXTURE Gay Rights by Type, by Guardian US Graphics
http://fukushima.nzz.ch/#die-schulleiterin
DENSITY Fukushima, by NZZ/Interactive Things
http://hint.fm/wind/
Wind Map, by Hint FM DENSITY
http://mapsbynik.tumblr.com/post/82791188950/nobody-lives-here-the-nearly-5-million-census
Nobody Lives Here, by Mapsbynik DOTS/POSITION
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rfid-tags-track-possible-outbreak-pathways-in-hospital
NODE/LINK RFID Tags Track Possible Outbreak Pathways in the Hospital, by Jan Willem Tulp
TITLE
Male Presidents
Female Presidents
ANGLE
http://kelsocartography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/carbonatlas.pdf
The Carbon Atlas, by The Guardian Graphics AREA
http://www.smartmoney.com/map-of-the-market/
Map of the Market, by The Wall Street Journal AREA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/your-own-words/scotus-gay-marriage/
ANNOTATION SCOTUS Gay Marriage, by The Washington Post Graphics
https://twitter.com/arnicas/status/435473001258442752
BLANK ‘Nothing’ to represent something
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
http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/whythat.html
This Page Intentionally Left Blank
The primary reason is to offer internet wanderers a place of quietness and simplicity
on the overcrowded World Wide Web
http://13pt.com/projects/nyt071211/
Lunge Feeding, by Jonathan Corum
http://graphics-info.blogspot.hk/2012/09/malofiej-20-look-at-our-participation.html
Iraq’s Bloody Toll, by Simon Scarr
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-depth-of-the-problem/931/
TITLE The Depth of the Problem, by The Washington Post Graphics
http://kottke.org/06/07/independent-infographic
Middle East: Who Backs Immediate Ceasefire?, by The Independent
http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-polio-cases-drop-50-percent/1776099.html
Nigeria Polio Cases Drop 50 Percent in 2013, by Voice of America
http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2013/12/10/gms-new-ceo-is-another-small-crack-in-the-glass-ceiling/ http://www.chezvoila.com/blog/glass-ceiling
The Glass Ceiling Persists, by Reuters Graphics | Reworking by Francis Gagnon
http://visual.ly/spotlight-movie-profitability
Spotlight on Profitability, by Krisztina Szücs
http://www.accurat.it/
Nobels No Degrees, by Accurat Studio for Corriere della Sera
http://yusylvia.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/gestalt_illustration-01.jpg?w=604&h=251&h=251 http://www.creativebloq.com/art/art-negative-space-8133765
http://www.theispot.com/whatsnew/2014/3/brian-stauffer-out-of-control.htm
New York Time Op-Ed, Out of Control, by Brian Stauffer
http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-deaths-in-florida-increased-with-stand-your-ground-2014-2
Gun Deaths in Florida, by Reuters Graphics
http://cementeclipses.com/
INVISIBLE A bit more thinking about ‘nothingness’
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/see-everything-thats-beautiful-about-advertising-two-simple-print-ads-bookstore-154627
Advert for Corre Cutia Bookstore, by Lápisraro Comunicação
The best design is invisible; the viewer should not see your design. They should only see
your content.
Edward Tufte
http://woodchanges.com/
Wood Changes, by Luis Carli and Rafael Passarelli
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
http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1193675/remembering-kowloon-walled-city http://lasombra.blogs.com/la_sombra_del_asno/2013/05/sichuans-earthquake.html
Infographic portfolio of Adolfo Arranz, SCMP
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/19/sexy.data/index.html?_s=PM:OPINION
The clearest, most precise graphic in the world communicates nothing if nobody looks at it
Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg
Changing Face of America, by NBC Nightly News
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3029318/design-crime/the-worst-infographic-of-2014-so-far
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
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/07/the-less-americans-know-about-ukraines-location-the-more-they-want-u-s-to-intervene/
Where’s Ukraine?, via Washington Post ‘Monkey Cage’
Pay attention to ‘nothing’ because it really is worth something
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!