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The intent of this website is to display projects I am working on with my team of designers and programmers at The Associated Press. This will be mostly information graphics, web applications, cartography and video. Starting November 2009, learn more about Nick's new project here

BOOKS

Click here to see what books you need if you do information graphics, or if you are just interested by design and data visualization.

GALLERY

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ARCHIVES

Multimedia production from the beginning of the century:
Iraq war
Afghanistan war
Lebanon war
Aircraft carrier visit
Laser weapons
Biometric tools
 

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  • Great Infographics as usual:D
    Recently I’ve been kind of obsessed with lots of information graphics posted on the Internet.
    Though I’m a university student majoring in business in Japan, your works are great and never seen in any Japanese press. (They HAVE excel-like graphs though, it’s FAR from information graphics.)
    If you have time, would you share your design process like, how to deal with data or how to integrate the data with visually- and reasonably-organized graphics?
    or Would you recommend any books or other resources for beginners?
    Thanks in advance.

  • Simplicity,
    I’ll make sure to post a list of books pretty soon.
    Nick

  • Nice use of flow charts and great color scheme. Très bien!

  • From an aesthetic point of view I like it a lot, but from a data perspective a few things bother me:

    – the width of the lines isn’t consistently proportional to the amounts.
    – a $4 Trillion “other”? That raises a lot of questions.
    – is there a difference between the programs at the top that end in arrows and those at the bottom in blunt lines? Does that mean some of the spending programs are open ended, and others not? Both sets of lines seem to point to the unspent pot total.

    Obviously this stuff is complicated, so kudos for trying.

  • Smitty,
    Thanks for your note. You are right, i noticed some problem with the width. I will update today.
    The lines going down are money still to be spent. The lines going to the right are spent already.

  • I love sankeys. I wish I had a good opportunity to use them. I will have to think harder.

    This one is pretty sweet, though I would have added the dollar value to the gov institutions as well. The money still available is an interesting way to segment that data. Very nice!

    and some final nitpicking, but some of the diagonal lines don’t seem to match up well with their horizontal neighbors.

  • Jess, Smitty, the graphic was updated. Thanks to you guys to highlight area for improvements.

  • I’ll stay tuned :D thanks.

  • my only comment, other than ‘great work!’ is that the Federal Reserve is a private entity, not a government institution. sort of a quasi-government contractor. maybe a note somehow to that point would be appropriate.

    or not.

    great job!

  • Otherwise, it is wonderful and very educational. Congrats!!
    Small suggestions:
    Can you swap directions? What spent should go down (the drain).
    Also, not $9 but $9T to go.

  • Exquisite clarity and compactness.


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