Architecture of Information
A reader emailed me this wicked cool site: A series of graphs, charts, tables -- infoporn all -- covering various aspects of the United States: Richard Saul Wurman's Understanding USA.
The data is 10 years old, but the site is a marvel of information communication from the book of the same name:
Source:
Richard Saul Wurman's Understanding USA
http://www.understandingusa.com/intro.html
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Hey Barry, are you familiar w/edward tufte?
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
Posted by: brian sargent | Apr 11, 2008 12:27:22 PM
Totally ! Great stuff -- the original infoporn
Posted by: Barry Ritholtz | Apr 11, 2008 1:05:44 PM
Even on full size I can't read it. :(
Posted by: Rich_Lather | Apr 11, 2008 1:31:16 PM
Just because I refuse back up my assertions with facts, identify myself and post under multiple false aliases is no reason to delete my comments!
I have every right to post here!
Posted by: Michel de Nostredame | Apr 11, 2008 2:18:04 PM
@ de Nostredame: That's quite a brass set you've got there, coming to someone else's blog and telling them that they have an obligation to acknowledge your graffiti.
Posted by: mappo | Apr 11, 2008 3:08:30 PM
Nostradame,
If reality is negative to your economic well being, attacking the person making the information available to the rest of us is your solution? Are you in the perception management business? The tide is going out on people like you and as Warren Buffet says "We are about to find out who is swimming naked".
Posted by: AGG | Apr 11, 2008 3:31:03 PM
Whoever did the "mystery meat" navigation for that site should be raked over many pointy charts.
Posted by: Froodish | Apr 11, 2008 3:59:48 PM
Sadly the (linked) site/infoporn is a marvel of illegibility. The fonts all look about 3 pixels high that can't be resized.
Posted by: MrWoohoo | Apr 11, 2008 4:12:27 PM
Propaganda is in the eye of the beholder. But mulish behavior is easily spotted by all and sundry.
Posted by: Tarzan | Apr 11, 2008 4:19:30 PM
