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Where do your tax dollars go?

ED:Robert is a guest writer for SCS I love big charts and graphs, and thebudgetgraph.com’s representation of where Congress allocates your tax dollars. The flash/preview of this poster is a little clunky but the only critique I’d levy at the poster is the way it handles micro versus macro comprisons. There’s a stat in the [...]

Posted 20 April 2007 † Robert § Information Design ‡ Comments (0) °

Chartjunk: Saturday in Missouri?

I’m really interested in meterology and information design, and especially interested in how meteorlogists communicate weather information. The graphic above makes me very sad. The goal is to communicate two simple facts: 1) it’s really cold today, and 2) tomorrow will be warmer. So, really, the designer only needs to represent two variables: time and [...]

Posted 26 January 2007 † Matt § ‡ Comments (1) °