A pretty cool presentation of conversations about health care happening on NYT.

Original article: Health Care Conversations – NYTimes.com

Ben Fry is always doing amazing artistic visualizations. Check them out here.

Original article: projects | ben fry

This post is a response to “How Might We Visualize Data in More Effective and Inspiring Ways?” Read more of the conversation here.

What’s the difference between saying, “I’m pregnant” and this:

We have many dashboards available to us today in many contexts: finance, forecasts, consumption, demographics, etc. We witness the emergence of beautiful graphical representations more frequently than ever. Instead of flooding this post with examples of data visualization, I would like to put the spotlight on how we processes them, and what challenges that presents.

A couple of years ago, we were tasked at IDEO to design dashboard visualizations for Ford’s next generation hybrid vehicle, the Ford Fusion.…

We’re proud to announce the winner of our CEO Compensation Infographic Contest:

Dee Adams’s piece “The Top 8 of CEO Compensation” does an excellent job of illustrating the massive salaries of CEOs and relating them to regular employees in a clean and simple manner. It’s our winner, and Adams will take home our prize package, including a GOOD T-shirt, a free subscription, and $250. You’ll be able to see her infographic in print in our next…

If our pictures of fast food haven’t totally put you off, you’re in luck: In the United States, it is never more than 145 miles to the nearest McDonald’s. And that’s in North Dakota.

As you can see from the map above, you usually are a lot closer. In the east, south, and midwest, the country is basically blanketed with the Golden Arches. What I find most shocking about this map (made by Stephen Von Worley of…

A pretty cool presentation of conversations about health care happening on NYT.

Original article: Health Care Conversations – NYTimes.com

Ben Fry is always doing amazing artistic visualizations. Check them out here.

Original article: projects | ben fry

This post is a response to “How Might We Visualize Data in More Effective and Inspiring Ways?” Read more of the conversation here.

What’s the difference between saying, “I’m pregnant” and this:

We have many dashboards available to us today in many contexts: finance, forecasts, consumption, demographics, etc. We witness the emergence of beautiful graphical representations more frequently than ever. Instead of flooding this post with examples of data visualization, I would like to put the spotlight on how we processes them, and what challenges that presents.

A couple of years ago, we were tasked at IDEO to design dashboard visualizations for Ford’s next generation hybrid vehicle, the Ford Fusion.…

We’re proud to announce the winner of our CEO Compensation Infographic Contest:

Dee Adams’s piece “The Top 8 of CEO Compensation” does an excellent job of illustrating the massive salaries of CEOs and relating them to regular employees in a clean and simple manner. It’s our winner, and Adams will take home our prize package, including a GOOD T-shirt, a free subscription, and $250. You’ll be able to see her infographic in print in our next…

If our pictures of fast food haven’t totally put you off, you’re in luck: In the United States, it is never more than 145 miles to the nearest McDonald’s. And that’s in North Dakota.

As you can see from the map above, you usually are a lot closer. In the east, south, and midwest, the country is basically blanketed with the Golden Arches. What I find most shocking about this map (made by Stephen Von Worley of…