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Client work: United States vs Russia

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Jess.

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Here is one in a series I am doing for Mint.com. It is a comparison of the United States and Russia over 100 factors. I have used the same format in comparing China, Canada and Mexico, and India. Pretty popular stuff, with over 4500 Diggs between them. The first thing most people notice is that are [...]

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Client Work: Reward Points: The Real Deal

Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Jess.

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I am trying to get away from the term infographic, so here is a “graphic post” I did for Mint.com I shop at a few different stores that have these points programs where the more you spend the more points you get which you can redeem for discounts or some crap you really don’t need, like [...]

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Clientwork - Student Loans: By The Numbers

Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by Jess.

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So I thought I would post about some of the client work I have been doing recently. I can’t post the actual stuff in full, but you can just go to original post to see it all. It’s about student loans and the expense of college. After going through all that research I am sure glad [...]

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Death and Taxes: 2010 Released!!!

Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by Jess.

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Finally! After 2 months of hard work and design, the 2010 version of Death and Taxes is finally released and available to purchase. The page is here, http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/ I must say I was very excited to get this project finished because it wasn’t just the same old Bush administration budget this year. This is Obama’s first official [...]

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Flowcapping: Visualizing One Trillion Dollars (video)

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Jess.

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Another flowcap of the process of creating an infographic. This time its much shorter, about 1 minute. It turns out that watching the creation non-linear infographics is not as exciting in fast motion as more of the all-in-one infographics. The previous flowcap video is here. View in fullscreen. As you can see this project was more research [...]

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The Fall of GM - a visual guide

Posted on 05. Jan, 2009 by Jess.

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Many aspects of this graphic can apply to the rest of the Big Three but I focused on GM since they are in the most dire position. GM has many woes, the least of which is a shortfall of money, so why do people think that an infusion of cash will do anything but prolong [...]

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A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis

Posted on 11. Dec, 2008 by Jess.

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You may have seen this around. It’s some client work I did for mint.com, originally posted here. This financial crisis is quite difficult to pin down because there are many factors involved, chain reactions, and negligence abound. So I created this primer to help people get their heads around it. It is a loose flow [...]

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50 Billion bottles of beer on the wall…

Posted on 26. Nov, 2008 by Jess.

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Here is some client work I did for SloshSpot. Essentially it’s one point of data, the amount of beer consumed in the US annually, only it is envisioned in several different ways. Very large numbers are difficult to conceptualize and very large volumes, areas ,and other measurements are even further out of the minds grasp. [...]

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Interview with a Pentagon Graphics/Budget Expert

Posted on 20. Oct, 2008 by Jess.

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A few weeks ago, I covered some of the bizarre and obtuse visuals coming out of the difference branches of the military. Well today, I posed some questions to a member of the Pentagon’s “Engine Room;” a new group within the Department of Defense’s Comptroller’s Office whose focus is briefing creation and analytics. The Engine Room’s [...]

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Down the Rabbit Hole of the Pentagon Graphics Machine.

Posted on 15. Sep, 2008 by Jess.

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In my research for the Death and Taxes poster I come across all sorts of charts and graphs. The are graphics produced by people in the pentagon, a half trillion dollar enterprise. While some are simple and to the point, others have gone off the deep end of visualization methods. Next week I will be interviewing [...]

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What’s in a name? Children of the Collective Consciousness.

Posted on 31. Jul, 2008 by Jess.

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You may have unwittingly named your child after a meme in the fabric of society. Or you yourself may be nothing more than the product of hive minded parents. So what’s in a name? I have always been interested in naming things, it’s one of the reasons why I own so many unused domain names. And the [...]

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U.S. Troop Stength in Iraq, and other data.

Posted on 16. Jul, 2008 by Jess.

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So I was researching the U.S. troops strength in Iraq since there was all this talk of surging and pulling out. Turns out there isn’t really any good visuals of it, and the raw data leaves alot to be desired. So I went about creating my own chart. I would first like to thank the Statistical [...]

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Bush’s new Alternative Energy is powered by smoke and mirrors.

Posted on 13. Jun, 2008 by Jess.

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Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology. Since 2001, we have spent nearly $10 billion to develop cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable alternative energy [...]

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Visualizing One Billion Dollars.

Posted on 30. May, 2008 by Jess.

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The Death and Taxes poster contains a lot of information and is great for putting federal spending in context. However, the de-facto unit of measure is one billion dollars. I realized that people often have a hard time grasping just what one billion dollars is. So to provide further context to the poster, I am [...]