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Monday, October 15, 2007

are you the next big dead thing?

Of the 2 types of people in this world -- those who create charts and graphs for fun, and those who don't -- I definitely seem to get on better with those who do.

One such person is Richard Watson at trend lab Now And Next. I haven't ever met or spoken to him, but basically, he makes massive and not entirely serious graphs with somewhat arbitrary y-axises for a laugh, which makes him absolutely sound in my book.

He's the guy who did that way cool Trend Blend tube map you might have seen. Anyhow here's his latest, an Extinction Timeline, showing what ideas and things will die out, and when. I like it, don't understand the reasoning behind some of it, which I suppose makes you want to talk more about it.

Extinction Timeline by Richard Watson (Now-and-Next)

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

chart police! offence code 187 - meaningless axis

innovation timeline

nowandnext (of trend blend tube map fame, which I loved) have just released

a new Innovation Timeline visualisation chart.

It's quite pretty, but what does the Y-axis represent? On top of this, it doesn't actually make things any clearer or more meaningful than a vanilla list would. Nice background though.

I have reported it to the newly formed chart police.

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