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Here is one I did for NursingSchool.org.  I am hesitant to call it an infographic, even though it does have a few… pill charts.  Let’s just call it a “graphic post”, which I like better.  It also has feces on it, making it extra graphic.

This one was fun to do.  If you want to support [...]

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So i was doing some research for another infographic and I was deep in to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ spreadsheets and I had to do something with all the fun data.  The BLS keeps track of salaries for thousands of occupations in thousands of locations, everything from astronauts to watch makers.  While I find [...]

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Here is one in a series I am doing for Mint.com.  It is a comparison of the United States and Russia over 100 factors.  I have used the same format in comparing China, Canada and Mexico, and India.  Pretty popular stuff, with over 4500 Diggs between them.
The first thing most people notice is that are [...]

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I am trying to get away from the term infographic, so here is a “graphic post” I did for Mint.com
I shop at a few different stores that have these points programs where the more you spend the more points you get which you can redeem for discounts or some crap you really don’t need, like [...]

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So I thought I would post about some of the client work I have been doing recently.  I can’t post the actual stuff in full, but you can just go to original post to see it all.
It’s about student loans and the expense of college.  After going through all that research I am sure glad [...]

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Finally!  After 2 months of hard work and design, the 2010 version of Death and Taxes is finally released and available to purchase.
The page is here, http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/
I must say I was very excited to get this project finished because it wasn’t just the same old Bush administration budget this year.  This is Obama’s first official [...]

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So the data collection and processing part of the project is finished.  I decided to post up the data that I will be using so peope can read it, check it, or do whatever they like.  I will pretty much be importing into the poster as is, though I still need to add a bunch [...]

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First of all, thank you for your input on the previous design/data dilema.  I feel confident I made the right choice for Death and Taxes 2010.
Now another data/design issue is before you.
In the previous dilemma, I had to figure out a way to account for the Stimulus funding since it was inseparable from each budget [...]

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So one of the first issues to arise in creating the Death and Taxes poster for 2010 is that of percentages.
Normally, for all the data points I list the Agency/Program name, followed by the dollar amount, then the percentage change from last year.  However this year it’s a bit tricky because all of the stimulous [...]

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So the Obama’s administration released their full budget numbers last friday through the OMB.  This information which is thousands of pages long contains all the spending estimated for the federal goverment for 2010.  Usually this data is released the first Monday in February, but due to a new administration and recent economic activity, it has [...]

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Another flowcap of the process of creating an infographic.  This time its much shorter, about 1 minute.  It turns out that watching the creation non-linear infographics is not as exciting in fast motion as more of the all-in-one infographics.  The previous flowcap video is here.
View in fullscreen.

As you can see this project was more research [...]

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So I have this issue for a infographic I am working on and decided to throw the question out there to see if I can get any answers.
I have emailed several econ professors with the following email, but perhaps the net at large will have better insights.
I am a graphic designer who specializes in infographics.  [...]

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Ok so the title is a bit misleading.  This is not really a video tutorial on how to make sweet visualizations.  However this video is a fast-motion recap the entire process I go through when making an infographic.  The full sized image is below.
You should view it in full screen,

Ok what was that?
While working on [...]

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WallStats.com 2.0 officially launches today.  It has been completely redesigned to make way for some exciting new projects in the pipeline.  Break out of your readers you feed mongers and see for yourself.
The old design, which can be seen here and here, was… well… crappy.  How come no one told me that?  I had some [...]

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There has been an update to this situation.  Click here or skip down to the end.
For the past several months this site, WallStats.com has been banned from Digg.com.  I will get to the absurd reason in a moment.  If you are not familliar with Digg, it is a social media site where uses submit interesting [...]

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