- Making of NYT’s Mariano Rivera’s pitches
The New York Times has been building interactives with audio-visual explanations for a while. But none of them are quite like How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters, which accompanied a Times magazine profile of the Yankees closer last month.
- A Bad Graphic by El País: Exiting the Crisis Visualized as a Horse Race — Literally
Last Wednesday, I tweeted about a terrible graphic published by El País (Spain). I said it was an example of bad visual metaphors and demeaning of data. Well… it actually does more than that. It lies.
- World AIDS Day
It’s World AIDS day. Last week, UNAIDS published their latest data on people living with HIV. And I felt compelled to try a more realistic view of the world: a cartogram.
- Santiago, SkyPe and the index of industrial production
Last Wednesday at 9:50 a.m., ten minutes before schedule, Marita Otero, professor of Information Graphics at my alma mater, called me on SkyPe. I add the students and start a group call. A nice conversation about graphics and a look at how to make a more interesting chart.
- Where’s the ethics? Visual reconstruction of the Fort Hood shooting
The visual reconstruction of an event about which you have scarce details —zealously kept by the Army, an open investigation that happened on a military base, is a tremendous challenge. A challenge that requires a good amount of resources. It is for that reason that I see the lack of honesty when producing visual reconstructions as a curse for our profession. Horrifying.
- My dear quantum physics
Ah, quantum mechanics! Such a fascinating issue! Plentiful spring of unthinkable graphics! A Spanish saying states that in order to live a fulfilling life one has to plant a tree, write a book and have a child. Likewise, every graphics editor should make at least one graphic on quantum physics — check ☑, one on a plane crash — check ☑, and one on whales — or giant squids, pending ☐.
- Op-Chart: Recession times and birth rates
Last Thursday, my wife and I had drinks with Chrys Wu, at Jimmy’s Corner. She asked if it seemed to us that everyone was getting pregnant. We have been noticing the same, as if it were viral. Do people decide to have more kids during recession?
- More on the graphic of Rohde’s escape
The information graphic on David Rohde’s escape deserves additional explanation. Although it seems like a traditional formula for those of us who are used to the Spanish flair, it is significantly different from what the NYTimes has done in the past: silhouettes moving across the stage, performing a precise and truthful choreography.
