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SXSW 2007 Infographic Recap from Naz. (src. Airbag)
Infographic: Words of the 2007 State of the Union address (src: NY Times)
Travel-time Maps. Originally uploaded by NIXON*NOW.
"These are much more complicated questions than those about individual journeys, but one thing they all have in common is transport: can I get to and from the places I'm considering quickly and easily?"
The maps on this page show one way of answering that question. Using colours and contour lines they show how long it takes to travel between one particular place and every other place in the area, using public transport. They also show the areas from which no such journey is possible, because the services are not good enough."
Via "Travel-time Maps and their Uses" on mySociety
Great combition of visual effect and usefulness. (Src. Boing Boing)
NIXON*NOW as Tag Graph. Originally uploaded by NIXON*NOW.
HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I've written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at.
Via Aharef with many examples. Drop in any URL at the Websites as Graphs applet. (Src. Cameron Moll)
"This framework structures all the elements that make for a great experience, and gives a context to the various activities (both internal and external to an organization) that play a role in defining a person’s perception of a product or service."
Stephen created a very well done infographic poster on the topic of experience as it relates brands, products and consumer's perceptions.
(And my apologies to Stephen for my poor meme sportsmanship in not gettting a reply up to a recent tagging.)
Map Shock. When infographics attack! Not really...but you know. (Via Communication Nation.)
Some slick iconographic design on the rear wheel of Lance Armstrong's Trek time trial bike at the Tour de France. Looks like Futura 2000 (?) came up with the concept and Nike designer Mark Smith ran with it. See it at HYPEBEAST.
Lance's Last Tour infographic. Visual goodness linked up from Newsdesigner.com. Be sure and download the PDF to take it all in.
If you have a chance, check out (and buy) the latest April 2005 issue of Wired on newstands (with "Go Hybrid!" on the cover). On page 40 you'll see my infographic contribution to the magazine -- an Infoporn called "The Outsourcing Myth". Enjoy!
A History of Communications Timeline (via xBlog)
Google Maps just launched. Looks tasty. "Like spreading a map out on the hood of your car." - Jason Santa Maria. Via ever impressive Stylegala.
Aaron Shwartz recounts his December adventure in choosing a between taking a final at Stanford or listening to Edward Tufte speak on campus. What lengths we fans of information graphics will go to hear from Tufte. Of course I just missed him in Phoenix recently...
Project Rebirth. Interactive timeline with time-lapse photography of Ground Zero reconstruction. Via NewsToday.
Infographic of train derailment in California. Via the altitude defying Airbag.
Infographic: "Economy Improved in Most Regions" - NY Times. Via The Big Picture.
Linked to these elaborate INA Infographics a while ago, but now ChangeThis offers them in a handy PDF format.
What if... A very interesting infographic exercise in the possible directions a life *could* have gone. Via the "obviously has too much free time to find this stuff" Jason Kottke.
Comments are finally live on the Apple's Tipping Point post. Feel free to add a few words if you feel so inclined. Thanks to everyone for the many links and kind words. With over 20,000 page views of the graphic so far, I have just sat back in awe at how quickly a concept can spread from paper to digital to the online world at large. Simply amazing.
The irony of the whole thing is that I was reading this Fast Company article: The Accidental Guru at lunch about Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, when I started thinking about tipping points, MacWorld and Apple -- then I reached for the sketch book to put ideas to paper. Makes me wonder about the interconnectedness of various, seemingly unrelated tipping points...
Scanned the concept sketches I made at lunch yesterday that were the foundation for the Apple Tipping Point infographic.
Apple's Tipping Point: Macs For The Masses Infographic
The idea for this infographic came to me while I was eating lunch today and I had to create it (using Adobe Illustrator)...the concept seems to capture Apple's strategy with the iPod Shuffle and Mac mini in the bigger picture sense (as I see it of course). Enjoy. (View concept sketches in pen/pencil here.)
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Apple's Tipping Point: Macs For The Masses
The Sweet Spot. Until January 2005, Apple had no iPod or PC products that served the mass market. With the launch of iPod Shuffle and Mac mini they have finally converged two product paths with the mass market in mind. This will not only drive more iPod sales (via the Shuffle), but also fulfill the promised "halo" effect of the iPod products as PC users jump to the Mac mini. Over the course of 2005, Apple will continue to dominate and grow its MP3 player market share, while steadily growing its PC business through the Mac mini. As with the original iPod, the Mac mini could build slow, but serious momentum in the market place. Within a one to two year timeframe, the Mac mini could bring Apple to a tipping point in which a combination of factors create strong double digit market share in the mass-PC market, as Windows-based PC's continue to suffer from viruses and adware and users are drawn to the elegant and affordable simplicity of the Mac mini.
These things do not happen by accident. The graphic below illustrates extreme patience and foresight from Apple to bring users to the platform by innovating increasingly towards the mass market over time without sacrificing the middle or high-end markets. In the end, the iPod continues to be the vehicle that drives Apple's ultimate goal: Switching. In many cases the biggest hesitation to switch was price. With the Mac mini this concern is now moot. We could very well be witnessing the early fruits of a five to ten year business strategy from Apple that has been in the works since the first iPod. If it works -- Apple will go down in history as a company that patiently built its brand equity through high-quality products and design -- and then, when the time was right and audience the largest, brought their superior computing experience to the masses. -- Paul Nixon
- The Sweet Spot: Inside the Mass Market Psychological Price Barriers ($100 for MP3 players, $500 for personal computers)
- Price: Reflected by market segments
- Market Opportunity: By number of potential buyers at a given price point.
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Mass MP3 Market: Price breaks-through psychological $100 mass market barrier. Simplicity and price make purchase less risky for mass market
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Mass Computer Market: Price breaks-through psychological $500 mass market barrier. Simplicity and price make purchase less risky for mass market.
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iPod "Halo" Effect: As the number of PC users purchasing iPods continues to increase -- perhaps exponentially with the new Shuffle -- the Mac mini presents the first real low cost, low risk opportunity to become a switcher with minimal cost and overlap of current PC equipment.
- PC Users Switch: Low Mac mini price coupled with great design and decent specs increases temptation for PC users switch.
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"Too Cool To Resist" Effect: Low Mac mini price coupled with great design and decent specs increases temptation for current Mac owners to buy Mac minis as back-up machines, test machines, media hubs, second or third Macs for the house, etc.
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High-end Market: Market: High-end. Wants: Design, features and performance regardless of price. Most storage space. Best features. Best performance. Type: Early adopter. Must be first to own. Trendsetters. Results: Higher price, fewer buyers.
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Middle Market: Market: Middle. Wants: Sensible balance between design, features and performance within reasonable price range. More storage space. Better features. Better performance. Type: Upper mainstream buyers. Group between mass market and early adopters. Make educated purchases. Results: Lower price, more buyers. Solidifies brand in the marketplace.
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Mass Market: Market: Mass. Wants: Low price, even at the expense of performance and features. Basic utility outweighs performance. Cool design can inspire impulse buy if the price is right. Type: Mass market buyers. Typically seek most utility for the dollar. Lower the price, the better. Results: Lowest price, most buyers. Expands brand in the marketplace.
© 2005 Paul Nixon, NiXLOG. Send comments to nix@nixlog.com.
Library of Congress Civil War Maps. "The Library of Congress is posting 2,240 maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks, while the Virginia Historical Society and the Library of Virginia are adding about 600 items." - Seattle Times article. See other LOC map collections.
Blackbeltjones on merging the best of Tufte's Sparklines and IBM's History Flow concepts to create a contextual, mini snapshot of a Wikipedia entry's history for users. I love ideas like this.
Examining Iraq Infograpics (March 2003). Slightly dated, but still interesting to read someone's take on a collection of infographics.
NY Times Weather Over 1 Year Infographic. Impressive visual. Via Design and Redesign.
Just in time for the NFL playoffs. NY Times infographic on those aerial stadium cameras that zoom around. Associated article. (Reg. req.)
Amazing and growing infographics gallery at Gert's site VisualJournalism.com. Wish I had made a return visit sooner -- taking these in will take some time, but well worth it.
Death and Taxes: A Visual Look at Where Your Tax Dollars Go. Enjoy this big, tasty inforgraphic. Via Metafilter.
Theme Park Maps. Great collection of scanned theme park maps. Thanks for the link Adam.
2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist in tasty flash inforgraphic format. Enjoy.
LukeW Interface Designs.
Some nice visual design and infographics work.
Funnel Inc. Infographics.
Some nice infographic work from this group. Via I.D. Magazine.
Over a week has past - time to suck down some infographics and take it all in. Maps & Cartograms of 2004 Election Results. Running collection. Adding more as time allows. I know there are plenty our there. Send links my way if you come across any (nix @ the domain above dot com).
- Maps and cartograms of 2004 US presidential election results - Univ. of Michigan People. Via Coudal.
- Speak Up on Gerrymanders. Via Coudal.
- Election 2004 Results - Princeton Professor. Via Airbag and Coudal (again).
- America Votes 2004 - CNN
New Tufte Chapter Online
Infographics. 'Mapped Pictures', a draft chapter from Beautiful Evidence. Via Airbag.
Map of Creativity
Infographics. Via Kottke.
U.S. Census Bureau Maps
Infographics. Purrrrrty colors. Via Assemble Me.
Convention Words (reg. req'd)
Infographics. A bit dated, but still interesting. Via Collin vs. Blog
Program From European Media Art Festival (PDF)
Infographics. Clean, inspiring layout of information. Via EMAF
Infographics. "The Visual Timeline - an interactive, animated compendium of rock and popular music history. Via InfoDesign.
Rate My Network Diagram.com
Infographics. Sort of a Is My Diagram Hot or Not. Via Photo Matt
Map: Bicycle Riding Options in NY (Reg.)
Infographics. Via Veen > Glowlabs > NY Times (Reg.)
Iraq: Mapping 2,368 Attacks in 30 Days from NY Times
Infographics. Amazing look at locations and types of attacks in Iraq. Via Metafilter.
Through infographics The Seattle Times provides some exceptional insight into Seattle's Public Library that opened in May 2004:
1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption Graphic
Infographics. Via Seattle Times
Unicode Code Charts
Infographics. "These charts are provided as a convenient online reference to the character contents of the Unicode Standard." Some interesting character sets in there. Via a Google search.
Anatomy Of A Volcano
Infographics. Via CNN.
Wag The Blog Charts
Infographics. "Research analysis provided here draws from the comments included in over 3.5 million weblogs." Interesting application of technology in monitoring and graphing the pulse of the bloggin community on the election. Via CNN.
National Atlas
Infographics. More mapping fun from the U.S. Gov.
USGS National Map Viewer
Infographics. Mapping fun from the U.S. Gov.
Special Reference Graphics of Iraq & Middle East
Infographics. High resolution maps for download. Via National Geospacial-Intelligence Agency
Airport Diagrams (Links to PDFs)
Infographics. Via Cryptome.
A visual history of spam (and virus) email
Infographics. Via Boing Boing
It's an election year. Media outlets like to make lots of pretty maps in election years. Enjoy:
- PBS NewsHour Electoral College Map, NOW Who votes?
- NY Times (reg.): 2004 Election Guide
- CNN: America Votes (Comparison shopping for your candidate)
- Electoral Vote: Charts, graphs, etc.
- 2004 Poll Watcher: Click to change votes
- Newsweek: Swing State Watch
- CBS News Campaign 2004
- The Economist: Bush Bounce
- Time: Battleground States
- Bush AWOL Graphic Timeline
- St. Petersburg Times: Elections Made Easy, Voting Reforms and Voting Technology
- Fox News: You Decide 2004
- Vote: The Machinery of Democracy from the Smithsonian
zipdecode
Infographics. Type in a zip code and watch the map zero in number by number. Via Newstoday
Stephen Colbert's Guide to Dressing and Expressing Like a TV Journalist (PDF)
Infographics. "Though fancy journalism schools will tell you otherwise, all you need to be successful in the world of television news is a rudimentary understanding of fashion and six different facial expressions. Oh, and a crippling need to be liked." Via The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents: America (The Book)
Infographics from INA at Princeton
Infographics. Great collection of work. Via the capable Number27
Non-Geographic Mapping
Infographics. "Proposed new system of cartography...This map...reconfigures 23 world cities based on travel time between the cities instead of distance." Via XPLANE's xBlog
Links and Causal Arrows: Ambiguity in Action
Infographics. Master Tufte at work again. Via InfoDesign
Electoral Vote Map, Cartogram and Graph
Infographics. Interesting information, especially the graph timeline. Via MemeFirst
Map of Springfield (The Simpsons)
Infographics. Ahh...the joys of having freetime. Via Kottke
Bush AWOL Graphic Timeline (GIF)
Infographics. Nice graphics -- through all this noise in the media I still didn't have a "picture" of that time until now. Via Modern World
Site Diagrams: Maping an Information Space
Web Design/Infographics. Helpful article. Via Airbag
ITEDO Technical Illustration Gallery
Infographics. In awe. Via ITEDO Site
ITEDO Graphic of the Week
Infographics. Yummy Illustrations. Via Google
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