SeventhSwami.com » info graphics http://www.seventhswami.com official website and blog for SeventhSwami Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:47:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 The XKCD “Height” Poster http://www.seventhswami.com/2009/06/the-xkcd-height-poster/ http://www.seventhswami.com/2009/06/the-xkcd-height-poster/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:47:42 +0000 SeventhSwami http://www.seventhswami.com/?p=1739 Totally buying this for work. (link) We love info-graphics here. And XKCD delivers the awesome.  I’m a big fan of large-scale graphics that are fun to look at and packed with data. Kind of like those cartooney maps you get at disneyland when you were a kid, that you spend weeks staring at after you got home. Edward Tufte calls these “mega graphics“… i call them “entertaining maps.”

One of my all-time favorites is the “Online Communities Map.” (link) The first time i saw it I just stood there in awe for 20 minutes or so.

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