Interesting map

[Boris]

via marginal revolution

No Comment. Just thought it was an interesting visual perspective.

Actually, this could be an interesting thread of links to great graphic representations of data.

[Boris]

Napoleon's Ill Fated Russian Excursion

This is one of my favorite posters. It doesn't look quite so good on the computer screen. The width of the band tracing Napoleon's route represents the size of his army. Talk about an ass whooping. I think the weather did most of the damage.

[The Bride]

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Napoleon's Ill Fated Russian Excursion

This is one of my favorite posters. It doesn't look quite so good on the computer screen. The width of the band tracing Napoleon's route represents the size of his army. Talk about an ass whooping. I think the weather did most of the damage.

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I've seen this before and it is an awesome figure. Its a great example of how to present a lot of information concisely and effectively. Something to learn from in the day and age of flashy graphics presentations which add no additional information and can even obscure data (skyscraper plots make me [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]).

[MrMon]

If you love this sort of stuff, you need to get Edward Tufte's books. Just about every professional can benefit from them, he is THE master of charts, graphs, maps, etc., including how to make them misleading, as well as spot those tricks.



The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information



Envisioning Information



Beautiful Evidence



Visual Explanations

[cbloom]

Is Tufte teh guy who goes off about how powerpoint is the devil?

[guids]

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ya, thats him, I read an article in some computer mag a while back, otherwise known as "the worlds biggest dork".

[felson]

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Yes.

The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint

[MrMon]

But you have to admit, this picture is pretty funny.

[felson]

The essay itself is funny too. Tufte claims that Powerpoint's indented hierarchy results from its programmers' love of recursion. He also says that its name betrays its true nature: to bully and subjugate rather than to teach. The slides consist of power points with bullets.

As a whole, the essay is quite compelling.

/hijack

[Howard Treesong]

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Yes.

The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint

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I absolutely positively detest presentations in which the speaker reads the words he has displayed from a powerpoint. It is distressingly common in corporate America.