Designing Great Information Graphics

The first great mainstream information graphic I remember seeing was of a New York Times article showing the casualties of war in Iraq around 2003/2004. The graphics were of bathroom-style stick figure men representing actual lives lost. What made it special was that it dramatically changed some boring statistics that you would normally ignore into mind-blowing facts.

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The New York Times still prints great information graphics but for online, they have stepped up their game to do some of the best interactive graphics in journalism today. You can read this profile article for more on this aspect of information graphics.

The focus of this article will be less on interactivity and more on the simpler, static information graphics.

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