Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs” After you read this post, you’ll probably want to check out the follow-up, A Slopegraph Update. Back in 2004, Edward Tufte defined and developed the concept of a “sparkline”. Odds are good that — if you’re reading this — you’re familiar with them and how popular they’ve become. What’s interesting is that over 20 years before sparklines came on the scene, Tufte developed a different type of data visualization that didn’t fare nearly as well. To date, in fact, I’ve only been able to find three examples of it, and even they aren’t completely in line with his vision. It’s curious that it hasn’t become more popular, as the chart type is quite elegant and aligns with all of Tufte’s best practices for data visualization, and was created by the master of information design. In this post, we’re going to look at slopegraphs — what they are, how they’re made, why they haven’t seen a massive uptake so far, and why I think they’re about to become much more popular in the near future.
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Datavisualization. Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! Journal of Information Architecture. Visualisation Insights #4: Visual Thinker. This is the fourth article in my Visualisation Insights series. The purpose of this series is to provide readers with unique insights into the field of visualisation from the different perspectives of those in the roles of designer, practitioner, academic, blogger, journalist and all sorts of other visual thinkers. My aim is to bring together these interviews to create a greater understanding and appreciation of the challenges, approaches and solutions emerging from these people – the visualisation world’s cast and crew. Carlos Gamez Kindelan is a talented Visual Thinker based in Madrid.
He is applying his skills as a highly experienced infographic and multimedia design artist across many different platforms, most notably through his work in the graphics department at lainformacion.com, an innovative online Spanish newspaper, and dMultimedia, his personal blog. I approached Carlos to do an interview for this article for two main reasons. How long have you worked there? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Subtraction.com. Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia.