Dataterrific: Time Travel in TV and Movies Visualized February 19, 2010
Posted by dataduchess in Uncategorized.Tags: beautiful, data, David McCandless, infographics, information, movies, time travel, tv, visualization
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In case you didn’t already know, let’s be clear about something: Information Is Beautiful – especially when it’s collected and displayed by David McCandless (and friends). This graphic can be found in his new book (available now from Amazon.UK) – but he generously has also shared it on his site!
You can find a HUGE version of the image directly on his website.
Early draft sketch
Also, he talks about how he (and his collaborators) went through 36 drafts before arriving at this final version in this post about his data graphing process. It’s incredibly impressive.
We’ve shown you some of McCandless’ work before, but it’s even more fascinating now, knowing how much work goes into the details of an infographic.
What do think? Are you impressed? Any information you think would make a compelling infographic?
Note about the title: “dataterrific” is a word McCandless used to describe work by Alice Cho, one of his collaborators on this particular graph, and I think it’s a perfect word to describe his work too!