A friend kindly points out this dashboard. The developers at Crystal Bull should be proud of themselves. I think there must be a Hall of Fame award for this somewhere. If not, it should be invented. In all seriousness, if you’re interested in what a good dashboard should look like you can always start with [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Information Design'
The dashboard to end all dashboards
May 24th, 2011 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Information Design
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Carbon emissions counter
May 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off · Energy Markets, Information Design
Much like the US debt clock, the carbon emissions counter is intended to raise awareness. Please download Flash Player. From Deutsche Bank I post this because I believe climate change (or what was once called global warming), is indeed serious, but nothing we can’t tackle with some ingenuity. The incentives just need to be right [...]
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Not bad soccer charting tool
May 9th, 2011 · Comments Off · Information Design, Sports
Just came across this visualization tool today: The Guardian’s Create Your Own Chalkboard. It can be a bit messy, but it does allow you to better understand certain plays in a match. In this case it shows the passes leading up to Asenal’s goal against Man. U. Song starts the play with a take-away, passes [...]
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Beautiful to me, useless to her
May 1st, 2011 · Comments Off · Information Design, Usability
I love my wife, but she has one major flaw: she does not appreciate good information design. How do I know this? Over the past month or so I have come across what I perceive to be wonderful examples of good information design. For example, this one from the NYTimes: I wonder at the beauty [...]
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You know it’s working when …
February 6th, 2011 · Comments Off · Information Design
… everyone copies the bejeezus out of it. Take the periodic table of elements. It’s not unusual to see variations on this tabular format seemingly everywhere. If you doubt me check out the work of bloggers more patient than I who have collected samples from across the internet here and here and here. Everything from [...]
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How to make your map not chart junk
February 5th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Information Design
It’s really frustrating to see the number of data visualizations that use maps stupidly. For example, take this crap map from the FT. It only allows the user to look at one variable at a time. Surely there must be a better way than clicking back and forth between the offered variables to see if [...]
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Top baseball players of all time, WAR-wise
January 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Baseball, Information Design
I discovered this nifty little calculator / infographic generator today, which allows the user to create lists of baseball players based on their WAR scores (wins above replacement, defined here). So, in case you were wondering, these are the top 50 baseball players of all time. The numbers across the top are the player’s age, [...]
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Crap can be beautiful, but it’s still crap … or maybe craptastic …?
January 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Information Design, Other Markets
I’m sorry, did I use the word crap? I apologize. I especially apologize to the people who designed and coded the amazing information confection displaying multiple Top-100-albums-of-the-year lists, mixing them together into some sort of kaleidoscopic jigsaw puzzle. It is amazing. But I defy anyone to make heads or tails of it in less than [...]
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Work that information a little harder, please
January 10th, 2011 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Information Design
I like the FT, I really do, but their information graphics leave something to be desired. Take this one. What is this information graphic trying to illustrate? One imagines, at the most basic, they are trying to show how much of each bank’s total revenue is used to pay their employees, and then compare this [...]
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Dueling charts
December 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Financial Markets, Information Design
Both the NYTimes and The Economist have sets of charts outlining the year that was, from an economic data point of view. They both focus on: – Unemployment – Inflation – Housing In addition the NYTimes looks at: – Corporate profits and PE ratios – Price of health care While the Economist chooses to focus [...]
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