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31 Oct 2012

Feels like a music video for a slogan, using meaningless animated infographics.

Getting Lost from Marco Bagni – LostConversation on Vimeo.

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How Much Have Olympians Improved?

In: Source: NYT Sports Video

6 Aug 2012

Very cool videographics analyzing the history of the 100m race, long jump, and 100m freestyle swim:

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Eastern Europe

In: Maps Politics Source: Economist Video

30 Jul 2012

“Eastern Europe” doesn’t really exist anymore. In fact, it never really did in the first place, according to this videographic.

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America Revealed

In: Maps US Economy Video

20 Jun 2012

Prepared for a PBS-UK television show (also available on DVD), these visualizations are stunning:

Electrical grid:

Flights:

radio towers:

Here’s a preview of the show:

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Overfishing

In: Environment/weather Food Video

11 Jun 2012

http://flowingdata.com/2012/06/06/overfishing-visually-explained/A well narrated video-graphic. (via FlowingData)

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Financial Times’ Graphic World

In: Global Economy Innovative Source: FT Video

30 Mar 2012

The Financial Times has created a giant videographic project in NYC’s Grand Central Station. Check out details about the installation and watch some of the videos (on business and the global economy) at http://ftgraphicworld.ft.com. Has anyone seen it yet in person?

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We Need a New Pie Chart

In: Graphic Design (general) Video

3 Feb 2012

While poking around the World Economic Forum’s website I came across this talk by Adam Bly from 2011 about the important uses of data visualization to policy makers:

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Unfolding the Earth

In: Maps Video

25 Jan 2012

An interesting algorithm based method of creating accurate globe projections. (via the Volume Project and NewScientist)

Mapping the earth is a classic problem. For thousands of years cartographers, mathematicians, and inventors have come up with methods to map the curved surface of the earth to a flat plane. The main problem is that you cannot do this perfectly, such that both the shape and size of the surface are depicted properly everywhere. This has intrigued me for a long time. Why not just take a map of a small part of the earth, which is almost perfect, glue neighboring maps to it, and repeat this until the whole earth is shown? Of course you get interrupts, but does this matter? What does such a map look like? To check this out, we developed myriahedral projections.

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Greek Crisis Videographics

In: Finance Global Economy Politics Video

23 Nov 2011

This jumps around a little too much for my taste – but it is a good example of using simple facts to put things in perspective.

Here’s a slightly more in depth, much more tongue-in-cheek version (from two years ago):

Finally, an even more tongue in cheek SNL skit about which god is in charge of Greek finance:

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US Economy: A Lost Decade?

In: Global Economy US Economy Video

18 Nov 2011

A visually interesting video from the BBC. It does a good job of presenting basic facts, with a little annotation. The difficulty with these videographics, I find, is striking the right balance between being simple enough to understand easily, but complicated enough that they actually make a point. In the BBC’s favor, they appear to be using this as an introduction to issues, and link it back to their broader coverage of the global economy and crisis, including their video series “Make it Clear”, which answers basic questions like “How Can Countries Go Bust?” and “What is the IMF?”.