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First of all, thank you for your input on the previous design/data dilema.  I feel confident I made the right choice for Death and Taxes 2010.
Now another data/design issue is before you.
In the previous dilemma, I had to figure out a way to account for the Stimulus funding since it was inseparable from each budget [...]

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So one of the first issues to arise in creating the Death and Taxes poster for 2010 is that of percentages.
Normally, for all the data points I list the Agency/Program name, followed by the dollar amount, then the percentage change from last year.  However this year it’s a bit tricky because all of the stimulous [...]

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So the Obama’s administration released their full budget numbers last friday through the OMB.  This information which is thousands of pages long contains all the spending estimated for the federal goverment for 2010.  Usually this data is released the first Monday in February, but due to a new administration and recent economic activity, it has [...]

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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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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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Ok so the title is a bit misleading.  This is not really a video tutorial on how to make sweet visualizations.  However this video is a fast-motion recap the entire process I go through when making an infographic.  The full sized image is below.
You should view it in full screen,

Ok what was that?
While working on [...]

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WallStats.com 2.0 officially launches today.  It has been completely redesigned to make way for some exciting new projects in the pipeline.  Break out of your readers you feed mongers and see for yourself.
The old design, which can be seen here and here, was… well… crappy.  How come no one told me that?  I had some [...]

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There has been an update to this situation.  Click here or skip down to the end.
For the past several months this site, WallStats.com has been banned from Digg.com.  I will get to the absurd reason in a moment.  If you are not familliar with Digg, it is a social media site where uses submit interesting [...]

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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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If you haven’t seen Jessica’s Hagy’s site Indexed, you need to head over there.  For visual thinkers, it is a great way to decouple yourself from the over stimulation of most modern infographics.  If you visit her site as often as I do, you begin to reduce everything to an x and y axis.  Friends [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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