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NYT Interactive President Map

After the 2012 presidential election, The New York Times published an interactive map that included choropleth and dot distribution maps that allowed viewers to see the clear patterns of victory and defeat at a glance for democratic candidates at both the county and state levels. Click here to see the New York Times interactive President Map.

Choropleth Maps

Use the data below from the Centers for Disease Control to create a choropleth map that shows skin cancer rates in the United States. Click here to download a U.S. map template. Click here to download additional state, region and world map templates. State/Rate AL/22.1 AK/13.7 AZ/14.5 AR/19.9 CA/21.1 CO/22.2 CT/19.6 DE/29.7 DC/7.1 FL/20.6 GA/26.3 HI/18.7 […]

Locator Maps

Create a locator map for a warehouse explosion. Import it into Adobe Illustrator and size and illustrate it using the style palette below. Remember to edit out unnecessary streets and landmarks and include a scale and compass direction. Click here to download the base map shown on Page 155 of “A Practical Guide to Graphics […]

 

Since this book first published in 2006, the field of information visualization has changed dramatically. First, information visualization has exploded online and on other digital platforms. Second, information graphics reporting has encompassed nearly every sector of communication and business. Visual reporting skills are not only relevant in traditional news environments, but many other professions as […]

 

  The Society for News Design will gather April 19-21 in Charlotte, North Carolina. This year’s theme, “Unite + Rebel” aims to deliberately break from traditional conference programming to promote collaborative, experiential, and peer driven knowledge-sharing in a safe environment. The Society for News Design is an international organization for visual communicators who create print, […]

 

Information graphics allow us to distill large quantities of information into a digestible package. Through graphics, ideas that might otherwise be abstract become familiar and more easily understood. Today, there’s a lot of free graphic design software that allows you to easily create visualizations. TimelineJS TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables a visual journalist […]

 

Professional Perspective: Joe Ward  After studying geography at the University of Buffalo, Joe joined The New York Times as a cartographer. After a short stint as a mapmaker, he spent several years there as a page designer before becoming the Times’s sports graphics editor. He has held that position since 1991 and his work focuses […]

 

This tutorial teaches you how to illustrate a realistic curtain using the gradient mesh tool. This tutorial is perfect for a designer who want to explore how the gradient mesh works. Working with this feature allows the designer to divide almost any shape into a mesh. Each intersection of horizontal and vertical lines can be colored […]

 

InfoAmazonia costing nature maps

Illegal logging, urban sprawl, advancing agricultural frontier and impacts of infrastructure works are the villains of deforestation in the Amazon. Projections made by a mapping tool indicate that, at current rates, hard woods will last just a little more than two centuries. Fortunately, this same technology may be able to help prevent the deforestation. Costing Nature […]

 

Sport Statistics: 2015 NFL Preview

Sports statistics allow visual journalists the opportunity to analyze data, identify trends and learn how a player contributes to a team’s success. In this doubletruck previewing the 2015 NFL season, the data is presented in bar, doughnut and fever charts. The data demonstrates NFL’s transition to a pass first league. From a glance, the reader can quickly identify […]