"community based on morals", how things change in 15 years <a href="https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/left-vs-right-us/" rel="nofollow">https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/left-vs-ri...</a>
From the heyday of infographics, when newspapers went online and explored its opportunities.<p>edit: I did not mean to imply information design is dead.
That's somewhat unfair to the site - they are very much still exploring how to visualize information understandably and aesthetically pleasing. Yes, they got started when infographics got really popular, but it's very much a site that's alive and continuing its work.<p>And really, infographics are rooted in information design. Which in itself is <i>much</i> older than the web. Heck, the canonical popular book - Tufte's <i>The Visual Display of Quantitative Information</i> - is from 1982.<p>I know it's not the most popular thing if you can just ask Claude for a quick visualization, but the space is both very rich in information LLMs blissfully ignore, and continues to be fertile ground for explaration.
The Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.ie/Information-Beautiful-New-David-McCandless/dp/0007492898" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.ie/Information-Beautiful-New-David-McCand...</a><p>“A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition.<p>We are overwhelmed by information – from our phones, our televisions, our computers, our newspapers.<p>This new edition of Information is Beautiful has been revised throughout with over 20 updates and 20 new visualisations. It offers shelter from the flood by visualising data in a new way that blends facts with their connections, their context and their relationships – making information meaningful, entertaining and beautiful.<p>This is information like you have never seen it before – easy to flick through but also engaging enough to study – information that comes to life in your hands and your eyes.”<p>I remember it well (used to see it for sale in the gift shop at design galleries and the like), I <i>coveted</i> it but never bought it :(<p>Perhaps I should treat myself now that I'm not so impoverished :)
I used to browse r/dataisbeautiful. Kind of infuriating. Way over half the visualisations were objectively terrible and misleading. The worst was that trend of dividing countries into totally arbitrary equal-population areas.
I once tried to post an interesting visualization to r/dataisbeautiful and received hundreds of upvotes, but then it was wiped for an unknown reason. Then I contacted the mods, both on Reddit and over email, to no avail.<p>It was a very frustrating experience, don't recommend anyone to try.