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Death and Taxes 2010 - Data only.

So the data collection and processing part of the project is finished. I decided to post up the data that I will be using so peope can read it, check it, or do whatever they like. I will pretty much be importing into the poster as is, though I still need to add a bunch [...]

Question of Design and Data

First of all, thank you for your input on the previous design/data dilema. I feel confident I made the right choice for Death and Taxes 2010. Now another data/design issue is before you. In the previous dilemma, I had to figure out a way to account for the Stimulus funding since it was inseparable from each budget [...]

A question of percentages - need input

So one of the first issues to arise in creating the Death and Taxes poster for 2010 is that of percentages. Normally, for all the data points I list the Agency/Program name, followed by the dollar amount, then the percentage change from last year. However this year it’s a bit tricky because all of the stimulous [...]

Open call for advising, Death and Taxes 2010

So the Obama’s administration released their full budget numbers last friday through the OMB. This information which is thousands of pages long contains all the spending estimated for the federal goverment for 2010. Usually this data is released the first Monday in February, but due to a new administration and recent economic activity, it has [...]

Flowcapping: Visualizing One Trillion Dollars (video)

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

Discussion: Biflation, What is it? Does it Exist?

So I have this issue for a infographic I am working on and decided to throw the question out there to see if I can get any answers. I have emailed several econ professors with the following email, but perhaps the net at large will have better insights. I am a graphic designer who specializes in infographics. [...]

How to make an infographic (Video)

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 [...]

WallStats.com is reborn!

WallStats.com 2.0 officially launches today. It has been completely redesigned to make way for some exciting new projects in the pipeline. Break out of your readers you feed mongers and see for yourself. The old design, which can be seen here and here, was… well… crappy. How come no one told me that? I had some [...]

Banned from Digg.com

For the past several months this site, WallStats.com has been banned from Digg.com. I will get to the absurd reason in a moment. If you are not familliar with Digg, it is a social media site where uses submit interesting links and other users vote on them; the best links rise to the top and [...]

The Fall of GM - a visual guide

Many aspects of this graphic can apply to the rest of the Big Three but I focused on GM since they are in the most dire position. GM has many woes, the least of which is a shortfall of money, so why do people think that an infusion of cash will do anything but prolong [...]