May 2, 2012

Behind-the-scenes look at NY Times graphs and infographics

Thanks to Kottke‘s excellent blog, I’ve just discovered chartsnthings – a reasonably new blog which details the thinking and work behind some of the New York Times graphs and infographics.

Nice to see they use R (originally developed here at the Department of Statistics at The University of Auckland) to create their graphs.

Comments

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    Thomas Lumley

    It’s really good to see graphs in development — there’s almost no examples of successive drafts of statistical graphics out there.

    I will also note that one of the NYT graphics experts, Amanda Cox, has an MS in Statistics from my former university in Seattle: I taught her a tiny fraction of what she knows about graphics.

    13 years ago