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Client work: HEAT: A Visual Tour

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Jess.

So this one took me  a month to do… mostly because I couldn’t work very often due to the new baby!  But I really like this one, its fun.  Basically it a huge ordered list of temperatures.  Sometimes it just helps to see everything all in one go, to add some perspective.  Also there are [...]

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Client work: Visualizing Density, Having Fun with Mass and Volume

Posted on 29. Dec, 2009 by Jess.

Now this one was really fun to do for Rasmussen College.  Density is a concept that can be hard to conceptualize.  You can have to bricks of something the same size, yet one is 10 lbs and the other 1,000 lbs.  So I created a standard format to help visualize the density of all kinds [...]

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Client work: Chartity, who cares?

Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by Jess.

So being the holiday season, Mint.com and I decided to do some relevant infographics.  This one details the charity situation in the US, who gives, hoe much, where it goes.  Some interesting facts: There are some charities that only give 4 cents of every dollar donated to actual recipients.  4 cents! Those should be shut [...]

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Client Work: Follow The Money..

Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by Jess.

So i was doing some research for another infographic and I was deep in to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ spreadsheets and I had to do something with all the fun data.  The BLS keeps track of salaries for thousands of occupations in thousands of locations, everything from astronauts to watch makers.  While I find [...]

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Client work: United States vs Russia

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Jess.

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.

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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Flowcapping: Visualizing One Trillion Dollars (video)

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Jess.

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.
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As you can see this project was more research [...]

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How to make an infographic (Video)

Posted on 23. Mar, 2009 by Jess.

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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