[Editor’s note: I was up in New York city Saturday for a regional Society of News Designers meetup. The same presentations are now live on the SND website, which I’ve clipped below. Enjoy.]
Republished from Society of News Designers.
By Jon Wile — March 4, 2009
We were in New York City on Saturday for a free regional meetup. More than 100 people joined us in person and many more checked in online. The all-star lineup of speakers included graphics legend Nigel Holmes, Rolling Stone art director Joe Hutchinson, former Fortune graphics editor Sarah Slobin, and New York Times interactive graphics gurus Matthew Ericson and Shan Carter. We have presentations to share and we will put up the captured video footage next week if you did not see it live. Check it out.
Rolling Stone art director Joe Hutchinson speaks on Saturday at the meetup in New York. Photo by William Couch
Download the presentation (PDF: 26.6MB) from Matthew Ericson and Shan Carter here.
PHOTOS
ABOUT THESE MEETUPS
We had our first meetup in December in Washington: At that event, more than 60 visual journalists showed up to talk about our craft and get to know each other over drinks at The Hawk ‘n’ Dove, a classic Capitol Hill watering hole. It was a lot of fun.
Have an idea for a meetup in your town? Drop me an email and I can help you set it up.
This interactive from last month hasn’t aged at all.
From the New York Time’s Matthew Bloch, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox.
Clipped version above. View the full-size version here.
From the NY Times:
Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories — like gasoline, bananas, dresses and garbage collection — to form the Consumer Price Index, one measure of inflation.
It’s among the statistics that the Federal Reserve considered when it cut interest rates on Wednesday. The categories are weighted according to an estimate of what the average American spends, as shown below.
An Average Consumer’s Spending
Each shape below represents how much the average American spends in different categories.
Larger shapes make up a larger part of spending.
The New York Times featured this delectable toy (tool) on their home page for a few hours on Tuesday. The compact Flash interactive shows a dynamic histogram stacking the average opinion of voters on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton per state on a series of election focused topics. The states are represented with little squares that stack into histogram bars.
If a state falls somewhere between 20 and 29% then it it will stack in the “20s” column with other states that fall in that column. The election topics are accessed by a listing below the histogram or the user can flip thru them with next and previous buttons.
The horizontal and then vertical easing of the state histogram boxes on change of topic is a beautiful dance. Props to Shan Carter and Amanda Cox. Thanks Christina!
Editor’s note: I like how the “worst 10” table shows all the different map variables in a single matrix where they can be compared numerically. The map shows “all” the sundry elevators in New York City as graduated circles where they can be compared visually. The circles are graduated in size for any of three variables. The mapped variable is chosen with a dropDown menu easily found at the top of the display. There is not an overwhelming number of variables, but those that are listed are fully integrated and cross referenced within the display by using rollOvers on each circle. The DNA-sequence-style time series below the map shows breakdowns by day for 2 elevators and provides a finer resolution picture than the year-sum map. It would be cool if the table and the map could trigger each other (on mouseOver the Times Square station on the map, that row in the table highlights, and visa versa).
May 19, 2008 by Matthew Bloch, Shan Carter and Ford Fessenden/The New York Times
A New York City Transit program to install elevators and escalators in the city’s subway system has been plagued with problems. The machines often break down or are closed for repairs and maintenance and many people have been stuck in elevators. Last year, there were 286 incidents, known as entrapments, in which passengers were stuck in elevators, up from 177 in 2006.
Download Sarah Slobin’s (PDF: 29.5MB) presentation 