some of the contributors to my book are getting their copies already…and i haven’t seen it yet! rowland did a beautiful website for it: www.letsgetinfografit.com have a look!
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some of the contributors to my book are getting their copies already…and i haven’t seen it yet! rowland did a beautiful website for it: www.letsgetinfografit.com have a look!
"The digital discourse about clarity is all wrong, and I look forward to setting things right." Coming soon to chartography.net
"We visited the tributaries of the Schuylkill River and collected water from each waterway— bringing carefully labeled buckets back to the studio to fill hundreds of small glass vials." —Stacy Levy mailchi.mp/cdf9421cbab0...
"We visited the tributaries of the Schuylkill River and collected water from each waterway— bringing carefully labeled buckets back to the studio to fill hundreds of small glass vials." —Stacy Levy mailchi.mp/cdf9421cbab0...
📊#dataviz #history Minard & Hannibal: This image helps to understand why CJ Minard juxtaposed his famous flow map of Napoleon's 1815 Moscow campaign w/ a similar map of Hannibal's campaign across France, across the Alps into Italy. Both the Napoleon & Hannibal graphics were anti-war statements
This is my timeline—show me yours. www.chartography.net/p/seeing-cen...
The #NYCsubway is a vital system! This colorful @newyorker.com cover cartoon by Roz Chast highlights the bewildering intensity of #NYC and public transit. Join Chast and cartoonist @ellisjrosen.bsky.social in conversation with #NYTransitMuseum Curator Jodi Shapiro on Thursday, September 11 at 6PM.
Looking forward to getting this signed!
Enjoying the cream/orange vibes of Attila's new newsletter:
At the Mountains of Madness, Joan Nelson ➛ https://is.gd/rKJZ5E ★ via
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos
Basketball changed dramatically over the last 25 years. Looking at this NBA shot locations map, which version of the game do you prefer? Source: buff.ly/kMexI8o
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos
The classroom setup for my first rare book presentation at the @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Highlights included a presentation copy of Isaac Newton's Principia, John Smeaton's account of the construction of the Edystone Lighthouse & a portfolio of strobe photos by Harold Edgerton. #histSTM 🗃️📜
If you’re in SF-area, the kind folks of @profsandpints.bsky.social are hosting me at Bartlett Hall Brewery this Thursday 8/28 at 6pm! I’ll talk Unflattening, my comics-making process, teaching comics, and share sneak peeks at the new work Nostos! Info www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof...
All ages?
"The map of my head: great sadness" by a 4yr old from Belgium was a standout children's map from last week's #ICC2025 for lots of reasons.
Wow that scroll! Is it available for purchase? I like the charm of Na too.
Thread of some of my favourite maps from last week's #ICC2025 1/4
or maybe a life-size brick-built 3068px9 www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/c...
I've thought of assembling a similar collection of maps www.bricklink.com/v2/search.pa...
widescreen charts in LEGO #60444
"The lack of empathy. The lack of care. The lack of soul. ... We're afraid of a world without soul." @kirbyferguson.bsky.social with another banger youtu.be/9pLCIoBZzd4?...
"heirloom watercolor property maps" marketafhorton.com/heirloom-pro...
Psst! Movable Book Society Zoom Show & Tell Saturday, August 23 12:00 PM-1:00 PM CT (Chicago) Request the free link via DM. Rosston Meyer (Poposition Press) gives us a sneak peek at his Edward Gorey book with Simon Arizpe and Bruce Foster! and Book artist Carolyn Shattuck discusses her books!
In his work, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (which is an incredible read by the way), Babbage introduced the idea of a cognitive division of labour. Basically, it generalised Adam Smith's division of labour to what we call knowledge work.
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Cyanotype of the main streets of central Paris. I used a 2mm-high 3D model as the mask which gives the print a nice shadow effect
I still want a coffee table book of chronological Economist covers. Maybe 4 (or 9 or 12?) per page.
Embarcadero stencil As
“The only way a populist can be fought is by telling a true story better.” I’m at the Liberalism in the 21st Century conference listening to Suketu Mehta extol the critical virtues of storytelling. “God speaks to us in stories, not in studies.”
my book Let’s Get infografit is almost out (pub date sept 5); you can pre-order it at routledge/crc press and amazon. the preview there is for the ebook version; not quite the same as the real thing! oh well…here’s the cover:
taking photos of things that make me happy
#rstats So chuffed! I printed the first PDF copy of my book to see what it might look like in print! It will be printed in full color! Visualizing Multivariate Data and Models in R On the whole, looks good, but lots of tweaking to do. It weighs in at ~440 pgs., so perhaps some cutting needed.
For many decades crime in the US and UK has been falling but more people think crime is rising. Collecting, presenting, and consuming data matters! The US is now cutting back data collection. Terrible, inexcusable move.
"institutional speculation on AI, the demographic obligation of healthcare, and the psychological relief of memes" @kyla.bsky.social on 🇺🇸 with lots of charts: kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...
📦💨 ordered!
@rollovereasy.org 2010 John King review of Grid Meets the Hills! www.sfgate.com/entertainmen...
I’d like to read them. That’s plenty for a booklet/zine.
Is the black and white spread from a book?
"making an appeal to the eye when proportion and magnitude are concerned, is the best and readiest method of conveying a distinct idea" www.chartography.net/p/an-appeal-...
"a chronology of the world from Adam to Christ to the apocalypse, with numerous charts illustrating the passage of time" 1593! www.pirages.com/details.php?...
"I am so amazed that I can neither touch the bottom, nor swim at the top" —René Descartes, Meditation on the Nature of Man's Mind Me too buddy, me too.
and William Playfair is coming next week
Hey mappy folks, some fantastic fiber geographical art by Linda Gass @lindagassart.bsky.social showing in the SF Bay Area lindagass.com/Events.html #mapsinthewild "Urban Power vs. San Lorenzo Creek – What’s Next?"
Please let me know if the translation can be improved!
and William Playfair is coming next week
After six years of collecting, I've finally assembled a complete set of Isotype Institute-illustrated NEW DEMOCRACY books with the addition of "Full Enjoyment". Here are some favorite details from each ...
"a chronology of the world from Adam to Christ to the apocalypse, with numerous charts illustrating the passage of time" 1593! www.pirages.com/details.php?...
from a visionaryPress.com reader: “I ordered this piece of the bookshelf specifically for them because they're beautiful to look at”
“world wide web”
(or, perhaps, its cousin Cinzel?)
ain't no party like a trajan party
"In Experiment 1 we found that Jitter Plots reduced personal attribution (i.e. blame) by 7.0 points, relative to Bar Charts (p=0.0011)." @elibryan.bsky.social 3iap.com/dispersion-d...
The M on the sweater stands for "huh?"
Full Enjoyment (1948) by Norman Crosby with 12 pictorial charts.
Education, the New Horizon (1947) by Harold Shearman with 16 pictorial charts
The Citizen and Government (1947) by John A. Hawgood with 17 pictorial charts
Women and a New Society (1946) by Charlotte Luetkens with 14 pictorial charts
Human problems in industry (1946) by Norah M. Davis with 12 pictorial charts
Women and Work (1945) by Gertrude Williams with 13 pictorial charts.
There's Work For All (1945) by Michael Young & Theodor Prager with 14 pictorial charts.
Battle for Health (1944) by Stephen Taylor with 13 pictorial charts.
After six years of collecting, I've finally assembled a complete set of Isotype Institute-illustrated NEW DEMOCRACY books with the addition of "Full Enjoyment". Here are some favorite details from each ...
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"Not only do my maps speak, they count and they calculate for the eye." Minard on Playfair, today in Chartography www.chartography.net/p/my-maps-sp...
Perhaps not the biggest casualty of the situation, but AI has really destroyed my sense of wonder. Every time I see something interesting/amazing online now, I just think 'probably AI' and move on, becasue I don't have the time to research whether it is or isn't.
Tomorrow I will post out my latest newsletter to subscribers. This will be a (belated) combined view of the 50 best things I encountered during May AND June, as I had to skip a month due to work and non-work stuff. To subscribe or check out all previous issues visit visualisingdata.com/newsletter/
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"Not only do my maps speak, they count and they calculate for the eye." Minard on Playfair, today in Chartography www.chartography.net/p/my-maps-sp...
Eric Carle!
Success! @noaa.gov GOES-West full disk, without (left) the Rayleigh correction that 99% of the published imagery uses. I still need to tweak the settings, but I always thought the removal of atmospheric scattering makes Earth look too flat. Thanks to @stim3on.bsky.social & @simonsat.bsky.social
The part-two conclusion of Minard's extraordinary design-thinking is coming tomorrow to Chartography. Catch up with part one here: www.chartography.net/p/illustrati...
from L'homme et la terre by Élisée Reclus c.1905 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
I AXOLOTL QUESTIONS
San Francisco shoreline evolution map
making visual connections researching @letterformarchive.org online archive. I really love their interface/discovery experience. Villa Park Santa Catalina hotel program (1934) oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=... Sneaktip zine (1993) oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=...
from L'homme et la terre by Élisée Reclus c.1905 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
Night Two
“In some sense the show did not feel special to me as much as it felt natural. The best way to consume data might not be alone on a pocket screen—but together, in conversation, with human-sized artifacts.” www.chartography.net/p/off-screen...
please do. How big are they? Is it DIY or us there an affordable domestic production option?
this makes me want to print my chartography.net SUMMER OF CLARITY series, perhaps as "POCKET CLARITY"?
“It must be remembered that sensations of the ugly and evil impress us more violently than those of what is agreeable and yet leave less knowledge as the residue of the shock”—The Enneads of Plotinus
A bookshop in Málaga which sells almost only maps and map-related books. This is why I’m here.
“It must be remembered that sensations of the ugly and evil impress us more violently than those of what is agreeable and yet leave less knowledge as the residue of the shock”—The Enneads of Plotinus
San Francisco!
"Today, images apply to everything ... and by making statistics visual, I satisfied the need of the day. But did I sacrifice to the taste of the time? Or, have I contributed to increasing the usefulness?"—Charles-Joseph Minard www.chartography.net/p/illustrati...
@infowetrust.com knocks another one out of the park with this post on Minard's 1861 Des Tableaux Graphiques et des Cartes Figuratives -- his final reflections on his works, what inspired him, what he contributed. 💯 www.chartography.net/p/illustrati...
"Today, images apply to everything ... and by making statistics visual, I satisfied the need of the day. But did I sacrifice to the taste of the time? Or, have I contributed to increasing the usefulness?"—Charles-Joseph Minard www.chartography.net/p/illustrati...
greetings hooman
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 17,1945
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 20,1945
tomorrow, the SUMMER OF CLARITY continues with an original translation of famed designer Charles-Joseph Minard, only at chartography.net
This was an absolutely great book! An amazing story, Guy Delisle dug deeply into the challenges, triumphs & horrific moments of Muybridge’s life, I learned a ton, was captivated for all of it. My dad got it first recommended - I hadn’t heard of it. Def recommend! From @dandq.bsky.social great stuff!
