Comments on: Great Visualizers: Stefanie Posavec

By: Alex, Editor

Alex, Editor — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:53:24 +0000

Thanks for pointing these out, Rowilson.
We’ve got a few problems like this around the site and will be sorting them out soon.
Alex

By: rowilson

rowilson — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:43:36 +0000

broken images
broken links

By: Stephane (France)

Stephane (France) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:22:01 +0000

Beautiful workâ€¦ BUT not data. I would title the blog (just for that post): propaganda is beautiful.

I was particularly disturbed by how she represented right-handed families. Absurd!

By: James

James — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:06:44 +0000

The link to the wired Entangled UK article includes a few extra characters that lead to a bad link error message.

is included in the hyperlink, but should not be. Savvy users will catch this, but as you probably know others may not.

By: Janet Paskin

Janet Paskin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:31:49 +0000

Stefanie just did a series of graphics for our 2010 Bundle Report: How America spends, and I can't say enough about her. In addition to being amazingly talented and creative, she's just a delight to work with -- responsible, nice, respectful of deadlines, all that boring stuff that can just transform a working relationship. I hope she gets hugely famous.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:45:10 +0000

The “bloom” visualiation does some wonderful optical illusion motion stuff when you’re looking at denser parts of the full-size one. I’m not sure if it’s intentional, or just a fluke of my monitor resolution, but it’s lovely.

By: Damon

Damon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:28:33 +0000

Nice work.

Caveat: the information informing the graphic is pretty biased. A valuable lesson in how visualization can sometimes make biased information seem more palatable while exposing the bias in the first place.

The information feeding this particular poster is highly interpretive and comes from a set of studies that have been produced by people who fairly uniformly fit into one side of that equation. Guess which one. I’d be curious to know which side of the equation Steph falls into, but again, I think I can guess.

Being fairly down the middle, it doesn’t bother me much, but it’s important to note that this kind of information isn’t exactly “data” so much as subjective interpretation (for instance, Nurturing Child vs. Self Reliant Child isn’t quant, it’s a label someone gave certain behaviors, almost certainly based on a set of self-held emotional constructs).

The visual artifact itself, however, is wonderful.

By: Nipperkin

Nipperkin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:38:33 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful post. I’m an admirer of SP’s work and was planning to write this very post on my blog, but you beat me to the punch!

“Information is Beautiful” is a great resource. Keep up the good work.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:52:40 +0000

Absolutely stunning work!

By: zeugma

zeugma — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:50:33 +0000

Same question as Richards, the first image look a lot like graphviz neato output, but enhanced.

I love it.