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Andrew Vande Moere
Personal blog · infosthetics.comdesigndata
Andrew Vande Moere writes information aesthetics, a personal blog at infosthetics.com about design and data. Since 2007, 62 different Hacker News readers have linked it 91 times, most often “Bing Napkin Maps”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- /9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2009-02-19
- Bing Napkin Maps3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-06-08
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-08-15
What Hacker News says?
Aside of the content, interesting things to do with both these and the state department cables would be to study patterns in the metadata like transmission date/time vs geographic location. Wikileaks has them sorted by various criteria, is anyone aware of a good platform for wrangling this to visualize it different ways? Most of the offerings at http://infosthetics.com/archives/2010/11/wikileaks_us_embass... are dep…
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on “WikiLeaks Begins Releasing Leaked Saudi Arabia Cables”Submitted Bing Napkin Maps as a story · 71 points
HN discussionI thought this was going to be the Bing napkin sketch style for directions: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2010/06/bing_destination_ma... Love the end result of the bezier curves shown on the map of the Caribbean, but really thought the napkin sketch feature was fantastic for directions.
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on “Sketchy Maps with Geometry Smoothing”Submitted 50 years of space exploration in one info-graphic as a story · 32 points
HN discussionUnfortunately, InformationIsBeautiful.net basically exists to be an advertisement for the author's book, The Visual Miscellaneum. Which is a very pretty book--I own it--but not really full of informative infographics. There's some original content in the blog, but far too much of it is reposts of graphics from the book. For a better (or at least more varied) selection of infographics I like: * Chart Porn ( http://ch…
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on “Wikipedia Lamest Edit Wars (Infographic)”Submitted NYTLabs Cascade: How Information Propagates through Social Media as a story · 23 points
HN discussionHopefully they fix the usability issues they introduced quickly. I'm a long time user and I might bail. More feedback here: "Suggestions and ideas: What do you dislike about the new design?" http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID... Maybe contact Bernard as well: Bernard Kerr, lead designer user experience designer @ delicious http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/04/bernard_kerr_yahoo_...
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on “Delicious 2.0 Launches For Real”Submitted BBC to Project the UK General Election Results on to Big Ben Tower as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI recommend Information Aesthetics -- http://infosthetics.com
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on “Data Visualization Blog”Submitted Most ugly useless infographic competition winners as a story · 8 points
HN discussionhttp://infosthetics.com/ - a blog about visualizations from around the web.
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on “The Data Deluge”Submitted Wiki Growth over Time as a Force-Directed Network Layout as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere are some resources I found useful (on top of Tufte): 1. Work of Alberto Cairo: http://www.thefunctionalart.com . 2. Searching Pintrest for UI/UX, dashboard, information design related keywords. 3. Work of Ben Fry and Fathom: http://fathom.info . 4. Work of Georgia Lupi and Accurat: http://giorgialupi.net and http://www.accurat.it . 5. Infosthetics Blog: http://infosthetics.com . 6. Work of Gregor Aisch from New…
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on “Ask HN: Designing Useful Dashboards”Submitted Bloom.io: Start-Up Proposes Visual Instruments for Social Data Expression as a story · 5 points
HN discussionInformation Aesthetics - http://infosthetics.com/ The Frontal Cortex - http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/
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on “Ask HN: What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs?”Submitted Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor better examples, check out Information Aesthetics: http://infosthetics.com/ Flowing data: http://flowingdata.com
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on “Information goes out to play”Submitted Bing Destination Map: Automatic Napkin Sketching of Maps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's a discussion on metafilter: http://ask.metafilter.com/56228/Alternatives-to-a-tag-cloud You can find more experimental UI elements at infographics sites and various visualization lab sites: http://infosthetics.com/ http://labs.digg.com/ http://sandbox.yahoo.com/Experiments (it used to be much better before they cut a bunch of projects) http://www.etsy.com/buy.php I understand that you're probably looking for…
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on “Ask HN: Alternative to the tag cloud?”Submitted Visualizing a Security Attack on a VOIP Honeypot Server as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere are three data visualization blogs: Information Aesthetics ( http://infosthetics.com ) Information is Beautiful ( http://www.informationisbeautiful.net ) VisualComplexity.com
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on “Ask HN: Best data analysis blogs?”Submitted Why Chart Junk is More Useful than Plain Graphs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLots of nice examples there, also you may want to check out http://infosthetics.com/
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on “Examples of data visualization”Submitted Trefis: Understanding How Products Influence Stock Price as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ http://infosthetics.com/
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on “Ask HN: Inspiring visualization sites?”Submitted City-scale energy consumption - data visualization as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA couple more: Zoli's blog: http://www.zoliblog.com/ Information aesthetics: http://infosthetics.com/
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on “Ask HN: Best 'Unknown' Tech/Web blogs”Submitted RIP: Yahoo Design closed down as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Data-Explaining-Processing... beautiful book by http://benfry.com/ http://infosthetics.com/ http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ http://processing.org
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on “Ask HN: How to get started in data visualization?”Submitted external hard disk treemap - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics as a story · 3 points
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