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Infographic of the Day: The Entire History of the American Presidency

Armed with this poster, you'll never again be stumped when playing Trivial Pursuit or Jeopardy.READ»

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The Mighty Statistic: How to Make Numbers Stick

[video_twistage 1 protect]I want to tell you about a statistic that changed my life and afterwards give you some thoughts about making your own data more life-changing. The stat was authored by my colleague Charles Fishman at Fast ...READ»

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Infographics Win! Obama Appoints Data-Viz Demigod to Chart the Stimulus

Edward Tufte is the newest guru on the panel advising the White House on the $787 billion economic stimulus.READ»

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Infographic of the Day: World-Changing Charts From the Victorian Era

A stunning visualization of the worlds rivers and mountains, from 1853.READ»

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Is Information Visualization the Next Frontier for Design?

As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set. READ»

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Visualizing the Economic Stimulus

The Washington Post recently created an essential visualization of the stimulus bill before Congress. Granted, it was created before the trimming that just occurred in the House, but it's illuminating nonetheless (see a portion ...READ»

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Required Reading for Interactive Designers

The storied School of Visual Arts, in New York, just published a list of required reading for the incoming class of students in its MFA interaction-design program. Here's a chance to get SVA MFA education for $58,000 off (not ...READ»

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Information Design is Cool

Josh Rubin, who practices the erratic and ephemeral art of cool hunting, has a, well, cool post on his blog today about 10x10, an interactive tool that gives an arresting snapshot of the most relevant words and images of the moment. ...READ»

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Visualizing Progress

Related somewhat to my last entry about courage and taking the pawn early...(and yes, the metaphor of business-as-chess is both useful and perhaps overused)...but bear with me. I think one of the traits that separates great leaders ...READ»

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Visualizing Progress

Related somewhat to my last entry about courage and taking the pawn early...(and yes, the metaphor of business-as-chess is both useful and perhaps overused)...but bear with me. I think one of the traits that separates great leaders ...READ»

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Blame It on Microsoft II

David Byrne loves PowerPoint. Edward Tufte loathes it. And Cheryl Dahle suggests that there's more to off-site and planning meetings than slide shows and white boards. Plenty of parallel reads!READ»

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Thought Leaders: The Next 30

So many people are interested in who else is on this list and where they rank that I thought it would be helpful to share with you the next 30. So here they are: 21. Jeffrey Pfeffer 22. Philip Kotler 23. Robert C. Merton 24. C.K. ...READ»