mathoda.com » craigslist http://mathoda.com the stories, poems, essays, biography, and projects of Ranjit S. Mathoda Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:16:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 When will blogs start presenting data using interactive visuals alongside their stories? http://mathoda.com/2008/06/when-will-blogs-start-presenting-data-using-interactive-visual-displays-of-data http://mathoda.com/2008/06/when-will-blogs-start-presenting-data-using-interactive-visual-displays-of-data#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:40:00 +0000 Ranjit Mathoda http://mathoda.com/?p=220 The New York Times does a great job presenting interactive visual displays of data alongside the newspaper’s stories. For a story profiling Tiger Wood’s golf game, here’s the interactive display of how Tiger Woods wins majors. For a story on inflation here’s the interactive display showing how Americans spend their money and how that’s effected by inflation.

As Hans Rosling has shown, the proper visual presentation of facts can be illuminating, reforming opinions in a way that pure text often can’t do.

When will websites beyond the NY Times obtain and start to use such capabilities? It may be that displays like this only make sense when the effort put into making the data presentable is sure to reach a very broad audience, but some blogs are already reaching very large audiences.  Here’s hoping more websites develop such capabilities.

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