Santiago, SkyPe and the index of industrial production
Last Wednesday at 9:50 a.m., ten minutes before schedule, Marita Otero, professor of Information Graphics at my alma mater, called me on SkyPe. I add the students and start a group call. A nice...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day
It's World AIDS day. Last week, UNAIDS published their latest data on people living with HIV. And I felt compelled to try a more realistic view of the world: a cartogram.
View ArticleA Bad Graphic by El País: Exiting the Crisis Visualized as a Horse Race —...
Last Wednesday, I tweeted about a terrible graphic published by El País (Spain). I said it was an example of bad visual metaphors and demeaning of data. Well... it actually does more than that. It lies.
View ArticleMaking of NYT’s Mariano Rivera’s pitches
The New York Times has been building interactives with audio-visual explanations for a while. But none of them are quite like How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters, which accompanied a Times magazine...
View ArticleFor Most of the Country, a Right U-turn
Elections are over. The graphics are set. The interactives forgotten for the latest cute kitten video, or the newest, silliest app. The print maps that wrapped the fish a couple of days later, have...
View ArticleMaking-of Connecting Music and Gesture
Behind the scenes of the NYT's conductor project: using motion capture to visualize the hidden nuances of conducting.
View Article1 World Trade Center and the world tallest buildings
An interactive experiment based on what I should have done for a story on the redesign of the pinnacle of 1 World Trade Center.
View ArticleMaking of a student’s project: Katya Fialkova
The final project of last semester's Information Design class was a story about one's block. Katya Fialkova took an activist journalist approach. Since I thought that her process, her challenges, her...
View ArticleFixing the British Rails — oh well, it’s just a chart about them.
A new semester at the School of Visual Arts. First week's exercise: fix an 'infamous' BBC's chart about train fare increases. Some of their attempts.
View ArticleÜbersimple tutorial: A Choropleth in QGIS
This is the tutorial we run thru in class: the exercise was to make a choropleth map of unemployment rates by county, although I may have overcomplicated it a bit at the end, trying to make a...
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