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Illustrations et vidéos de visualisation données. News Graphics Collection. 79352 (1134×1512) Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Riot Rumors. Data journalism and data visualization | News. ChartsBin.com - Visualize your data. Five Years of Traffic Fatalities. Indicateurs de développement humain - Google Public Data Explorer. Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal - Interactive Feature. US debt visualized: Stacked in 100 dollar bills @ 15 Trillion Dollars (2011) 30 Superb Examples of Infographic Maps. As you search the web you’ll come across a wide range of interactive and graphical maps. Deciding when, where and how to integrate or display a map on your site is the first step, the second should be what technology and illustrations to use. If you’re all about interaction, JQuery, Ajax, or Flash are all effective technologies that hold their own ground.

Map illustrations are a dime a dozen however, a strong and balanced display of graphics, information, and colors is what makes an infographic stand out and reach its target audience effectively. As designers, we’re constantly searching for ways to improve and style our designs, this is exactly what the following 30 infographics and sites display below; the breaking of rules. Sites with Interactive Maps Illustrative Infographics Compiled exclusively for WDD by Liz Fulghum. Did we miss any great examples? Les panneaux d'exposition : Photo. Close the Bars Down | Eager Pies. If you’ve been keeping up with your visualization feeds and tweets you are probably aware of Stephen Few’s Tableau 8 critique and the subsequent debate between Few and Chad Skelton of the Vancouver Sun. Few makes it clear that he feels packed bubble visualizations are an abomination while Skelton maintains bar charts are jejune. As an exercise, lets see if we can leopard crawl our way to the middle ground and mold from it’s fertile soils a representation of the data that is more captivating than the sedate bar chart without fabricating new data or wading into the bubbled waters of Skelton’s graph.

So here is Skelton’s data and the resultant bar chart that he labeled as “boring”. Our fist step begins with advice from one of the fathers of visualization Jacques Bertin. Now lets increase our information density by taking those bars and stacking them one atop the other. That’s more interesting but as you can see it takes up a lot of vertical space. Let’s curl it up into a nice compact ball.