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Illustrating data (again)

Dec 24th, 2009

It’s Christmas. That means that you have to indulge bloggers in their little obsessions.

Mine is an interest in the way that data can be presented in a way that changes our perception of an issue and clarifies a problem.

This one, for instance from Good Magazine:

You can zoom around and explore it here. (Via Information is Beautiful)

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Tagged: Visualisations

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