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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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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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Death and Taxes 2010 - Data only.

Posted on 16. Jun, 2009 by Jess.

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So the data collection and processing part of the project is finished. I decided to post up the data that I will be using so peope can read it, check it, or do whatever they like. I will pretty much be importing into the poster as is, though I still need to add a bunch [...]

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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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Discussion: Biflation, What is it? Does it Exist?

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Jess.

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So I have this issue for a infographic I am working on and decided to throw the question out there to see if I can get any answers. I have emailed several econ professors with the following email, but perhaps the net at large will have better insights. I am a graphic designer who specializes in infographics. [...]

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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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389 years ago…

Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by Jess.

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UPDATE — THIS POSTER IS CURRENTLY ON SALE ( CLICK HERE) Inspired by the genuine progress of this country, I created this typographic mashup of the history of slavery, racism, and the progress of African Americans. Please link to the actual post and not the image itself. Thanks! UPDATE: This has been created into a stunning 16” x [...]

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The Ekonami

Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by Jess.

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I created this little pictogram to sum up the economy lately. I think it works on many levels. If it doesn’t make sense to you, that is OK. p.s. All content from WallStats.com and blog have been banned from Digg.com. According to Digg’s TOS, they do not allow websites that promote a product. It doesn’t matter [...]

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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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$700 Billion bailout… so who’s paying?

Posted on 25. Sep, 2008 by Jess.

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So the Gov’ment is on a shopping spree. Well like all post shopping hangovers, the bill can be quite sobering. So here is a little graphic to explain just who is paying for this bailout and how much. The data and forumlas used were crafted when I was doing research on the “Who pays?” section [...]

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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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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 [...]