Visualization is defined
by the author with two different perspectives: “complex and deeper” vs.
“Intelligible and shallower”.
The author uses his
infographic of prison population in Brazil to demonstrate what wrong and right
with his work. His graphic work is kind of complexity to understand because of
many layers of information were showing up on the chart, especially the second
diagram. By explaining the relationship between opposite term in each axes, he
convinced that his Brazillian prison population infographic is not really
difficult to understand. The text element in his infographic is functional
except the barbed wired on the top. Those texts are corresponding to their
function to express the most specific in each jail.
By the way, respecting the
audience is really important for the designers. That’s not only respect them,
but also narrow the distance between the audience and the designers. That also
helps the audience understand easily, quickly and perceive what designers did
on their structured infographic.
If the designer designs
his infographic technically for non-technical audience which they are the most
common audience of a newspaper, they will lose the chance to convince the
audience what they are going to tell.
In my opinion, the good
infographic is respectful, little humor to common audience, also functional, be
able to give audience interested in the data in shortest time.
Links to data sources:
http://www.epa.gov/
or http://www.epa.gov/epahome/data.html
http://www.data.gov
http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference-Shelf/Data.shtml
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/analysis/data.html
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