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Re: Crimescene Infographic – How was Ötzi killed?

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Re: The programme is ready for Malofiej 20

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Re: National Geographic makes the graphics noone else can afford

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Re: The barchart that doesn’t explain anything and isn’t news

jason — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:57:17 -0000

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Re: This is the greatest and best artist and infographic in the world – Tribute.

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Re: The barchart that doesn’t explain anything and isn’t news

Alisha @ The Unvarnished Word — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:54:53 -0000

Long graphics appeal to Pinterest users. Just saying.

Re: Do you want the truth or something beautiful?

Susan Kistler — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:30:22 -0000

Gert, thanks for the permissions! I kicked off my presentation on low-cost no-cost tech tools for data visualization and reporting to the sound of Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful and your graphic. Thanks for the permission and the great illustration. Oh, and it's the picture for my blog post this week too http://aea365.org/blog/?p=7491 (if anyone wants the link to the 25 tech tools slides, they are there as well)

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Re: Young star has reintroduced the big graphics spread into newsmagazines

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Re: The programme is ready for Malofiej 20

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Re: The World Reduced To Infographics – review

manoj g — Thu, 24 May 2012 04:49:47 -0000

Wonderful work done on periodic table with charges

Re: Print or online? One masterpiece and one screw-up

Aase Tveito — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:58:48 -0000

The most interesting thing about this is that the options you have online is so much bigger, so you can make it even more visible and interesting. Do they assume less intelligent readers online, or are they just lazier in the internet staff?

Re: Print or online? One masterpiece and one screw-up

Simon Lei Fredslund — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:16:11 -0000

"On a day like this you feel really bad that print is in decline."
-Or they could just have done a better online job than spending all efforts on the print version.

Re: Crimescene Infographic – How was Ötzi killed?

Stephen Fox — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:31:35 -0000

We know that this didn't happen, Otzi was alone when he died, and I'm sure if someone killed him there and then, they would have taken his valuable copper axe.

Re: This is the greatest and best artist and infographic in the world – Tribute.

Gert K Nielsen — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:47:52 -0000

Congratulations to Jaime Serra for clearing the table: He is the most influential artist - and creator of most influential graphic with his Big Whale graphic. Awesome

Re: The World Reduced To Infographics – review

Jose Alejandro — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:22:33 -0000

haha thats a simplistic view of the world in a periodic table, will have to check that book periodic table with charges

Re: The programme is ready for Malofiej 20

Alberto Cairo — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:19:11 -0000

This is very kind of you, Gert. Thanks for the nice words

Re: Crimescene Infographic – How was Ötzi killed?

maxgadney — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:54:50 -0000

didnt they do another earlier version of this?
http://ngm.nationalgeographic....
illustrated by the amazing (and sadly departed) Kazuhiko Sano?

Re: The barchart that doesn’t explain anything and isn’t news

Stephane Nardin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:24:39 -0000

Nice post
An alternative of the Mc Candless visualization here
http://public.tableausoftware....

Re: The barchart that doesn’t explain anything and isn’t news

jlbriggs — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:53:47 -0000

"MAYBE THIS GRAPHIC appeals to the purists out there? The ones who think that everything can be explained in a barchart?"

1) Nothing by McAndless appeals to the purists
2) I don't know of any purist who would ever promote the idea that everything is best explained by a bar chart.

And most importantly
3) this is the saddest excuse for a bar chart I have yet seen.
It is a useless graphic that does not illustrate it's point (or facilitate its stated purpose), is absurdly large and convoluted by it's poor use of color, it's purposeless dual-direction set up and the nonsensical bubble in the center of each bar.

This graphic is pointless in every sense, which is a shame for a chart that was purportedly intended to clarify what were some pretty sound statistical graphs.

Re: Advice from a successful infographic salesperson – let the fight begin

Gert K Nielsen — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:56:13 -0000

To make it even worse (for me) I just realize that Don'ts is a correct way to spell the headline. I have updated the article.
1-0 to Amy even if I'm not really fighting her, as she has come totally clean in the comments to her own article and admits that what she is doing is meant as linkbait. Had she called her article 'Do's and Don'ts Of Linkbait-Infographics' I think it would have been perceived differently in the community. She is the expert in linkbait after all and holds an important voice for that.

Re: Advice from a successful infographic salesperson – let the fight begin

Rich_Harris — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:11:22 -0000

Sure, I had read the article and I too winced - I'm glad it's prompted such debate. I work for a publishing company, and lately we've had a spate of public relations people phoning up hawking 'infographics' committing many of the same sins (often including basic mathematical errors). So let the fight begin indeed. Sorry, I was a little cranky in that earlier comment.

Re: Advice from a successful infographic salesperson – let the fight begin

Gert K Nielsen — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:35:58 -0000

Thanks for the protip, Rich. 'Success' in Danish - my mothertongue - is spelled 'Succes' with just a single 's', so I am prone to making that mistake.
That said - I don't believe in the notion that you can't critizise anything or offer advice before being perfect yourself. Exactly the reason I think it's important to read Amys article, which I recommend as solid advice with bad examples.

Re: Advice from a successful infographic salesperson – let the fight begin

Rich_Harris — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:47:14 -0000

Protip: When ridiculing the spelling in someone else's headline, check your own first. 'Succesful' indeed...

Re: Infographics could change your political views

Nicklas Pape — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:59:39 -0000

Hi Gert. Thank you, but I already saw that. I was trying to find out in which journal the article was published?