Issue #040

Dec 03, 2021

Articles & Opinions

Clarity and Aesthetics in Visualization

11月的 #30DayMapChallenge 结束了，个人十分喜欢的数据可视化工程师也是可视化开源社区的维护者 Fil 参与了全部挑战，并在Observable上分享了所有作品以及源代码，鼓励大家分享、解释、开源自己的创作过程，激发新的创作灵感

2021年把图表垃圾扔进垃圾桶

在 alt.VIS 研讨会(IEEE VIS 2021其中的一个轻松会议)上，Derya Akbaba的研究团队介绍了把图表垃圾扔进垃圾桶宣言，Chartjunk 这个词是 Edward Tufte 在1983年提出的一个充满偏见的术语，而不是一个关于图表应该包括什么的客观、具体定义。作者认为Chartjunk是一种挑衅，它不精确、不冷静、不公正，作为研究者，应该认真对待这个术语，呼吁将这个词从学术研究中删除

Statistics for Communication Design (Tweets)

失败也是可视化创作过程的一部分

Color Scheming from a Vintage Visualization

How to use "the force" in data visualisation

为不标准的数据表格辩护

Data Journalism

From Capitol riot to cicadas, outer space to the Suez Canal: A visual dive into 2021’s biggest stories

The Winners and Losers From a Year of Ranking Covid Resilience

Bloomberg Graphics@BBGVisualData

Since it debuted last November, the Ranking’s best and worst performers each month have fluctuated, with the onset of vaccines, the emergence of the delta variant and the more recent reopening push key moments in the pandemic journey. 🔗: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

4:18 PM · Nov 24, 2021

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Africa’s rising cities - 非洲将如何成为世界城市未来的中心

Post Graphics@PostGraphics

By 2100, Tokyo will lose a third of its population. Beijing will lose 4 million people. The slowdown in today’s largest cities will coincide with a boom in African cities. (corrects link from earlier tweet) wapo.st/3cCfbuW

9:07 PM · Nov 21, 2021

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哪些鸟在喂食器前是最大的混蛋？

你的口袋里有一个间谍 - 智能手机如何帮助公司追踪你的数字足迹

data4change@data4change

Pssst! Over here! I’m a tracker on your phone. You gave me permission to see your private information. Don’t you remember? Check out the new story about #DataPrivacy in #Uganda that we did with @UnwantedWitness >>> unwantedwitness.org/pocket-spy/

11:20 AM · Nov 30, 2021

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一部2021年的智能手机是由哪些原材料制造的？- 用元素周期表可视化

Le smartphone, dévoreur de matières premières

The Nation’s Best Punter Is Changing The Game

Arc diagram with distance traveled on each punt from Matt Araiza of San Diego State and number of punts at each distance. The national Football Bowl Subdivision average is 43.27 yards, and Araiza's average this season is 51.47 yards.

Visual Storytelling

What’s on the Thanksgiving table in a hotter, drier world?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost

Wild boar. Kelp salad. Crickets in your pie crust. These are just a few things that may end up on Thanksgiving menus as climate change takes its toll on the planet. wapo.st/3FQgIKJ

4:22 PM · Nov 25, 2021

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NASA hopes to hit an asteroid now in case we really need to knock one away later

The Washington Post@washingtonpost

If all goes well, the spacecraft that NASA plans to launch today will smash itself to bits against an asteroid. If all goes absolutely perfectly, that impact will jostle the asteroid into a slightly different orbit. wapo.st/3r0vha9

9:00 PM · Nov 23, 2021

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A probe intended to study the Trojan asteroids takes off

Projects

食物年表

由 Lynne Olve (1958-2015) 从1995年开始创建和维护，她是一名对食品历史充满热情的图书馆员, 2020年由弗吉尼亚理工大学档案馆管理维护这个项目，图书馆收藏了5000多册与食品和饮料历史有关的书籍和125份手稿，内容涉及烹饪、食品、饮料和农业历史等方面

可视化圣经英文翻译的差异

#MeToo Anti-Network

11月25号是消除对妇女的暴力行为国际日，来自metaLab Harvard的研究人员在随机选择了一百万条#MeToo推文后，仔细阅读了转发次数超过 100 次的示例，在894 条推文中只有 8 条是关于性侵犯或围绕#MeToo经历的实际推文，其余绝大多数是新闻媒体和政治讨论，其中大多数都忽略了#MeToo运动核心的具体问题和幸存者的声音，设计师 Kim Albrecht 想通过这个可视化项目来展示被忽视的针对女性暴力的严重问题

Kim Albrecht@kimay

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. To shine some light on the enormity of the problem we visualized some unheard tweets from the #WhyIDidntReport hashtag. metoo.kimalbrecht.com #GenerationEquality #OrangeTheWorld #SpotlightEndViolence

6:55 PM · Nov 25, 2021

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Brainstream

一个交互动画，试图展示一个（虚构的）加拿大卫生部项目，允许任何人通过流式传输他们的大脑活动来获得大脑按摩。在这种情况下，观众被邀请去按摩一位名叫D的年轻女性的大脑，以交互形式直播她的想法，动画以敏感和幽默的方式探索了人类大脑迷人的运作方式。作品来自 Caroline Robert，使用了 Looom 进行动画创作

National Film Board of Canada@thenfb

"BRAINSTREAM reminds us that human connection — being able to listen and engage with each other — is key to finding some inner harmony." 🧘 Learn more about Caroline Robert's (@allo_caroline) latest work via @cartoonbrew → bit.ly/3oTrV6c