Matthew Ericson – ericson.net

[...] The closer has confounded hitters with mostly one pitch: his signature cutter. House Map - Election Results 2010 House Big Board - Election Results 2010 Iowa City Water Department Water System - [...]

[...] district in Minnesota is a surprising result or not. So, when we set out to design our election results package in 2008, we wanted to see if there was an additional way to organize the results to [...]

[...] design, which ones excel at news page design and which ones win for their photography or information graphics. So, I figured there must be a better way to display the data that lets get a sense of how [...]

[...] today at the AIGA Pivot design conference about how we approach data visualization and information graphics at The Times. I’ve posted the slides from my presentation as a PDF. Links to the [...]

[...] Making information graphics these days often requires scraping data from web sites, and Ruby is currently my goto [...]

[...] . One particularly interesting thing to me: There were only 19 awards give in the information graphics [...] [...]

[...] for People Like You Obama’s Budget Proposal Hazards of Storing Spent Fuel Tracking the Oil Spill in the Gulf One 9/11 Tally: $3.3 Trillion Steve Jobs’s Patents A Peek Into Netflix Queues How [...]

[...] obviously, when the story is completely based on the geography — “How far has the oil spill in the Gulf spread?” — there’s nothing more effective than a map showing just [...]

[...] the Geography Map of the Damage From the Japanese Earthquake Map and Estimates of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - Interactive Map - NYTimes.com The spreading slick, day by day, and [...]

[...] - Interactive Database - The New York Times Sketch with Data A Peek Into Netflix Queues - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com Story+Data > Data Preview of Key House Races - Election Results 2010 [...]

[...] the Best of News Design contest were released today, so I’ve updated my interactive crosstab of SND winners that lets you see at a glance which publications won awards in which categories. One [...]

[...] . So, a little bit of Ruby and Javascript later, I hacked together an interactive crosstab of SND winners. Check it out. (Modern web browsers only, please) [...]

[...] View full interactive map on nytimes.com » Often, when you get data that is organized by geography — say, for [...]

[...] how the education levels correspond with other states won by Obama and McCain. 2. When the geographic data is more effective for analysis A second case where it’s more effective to use a form [...]

[...] spoke this afternoon at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, about the interactive graphics and data visualizations we produce at The New York Times. Here’s the list of the [...]

[...] different categories. So, a little bit of Ruby and Javascript later, I hacked together an interactive crosstab of SND winners. Check it out. (Modern web browsers only, please) [...]

[...] 34th Edition of the Best of News Design contest were released today, so I’ve updated my interactive crosstab of SND winners that lets you see at a glance which publications won awards in which [...]

[...] Just pushed out a little update to my Illustrator artboard and layer exporter script that adds JPG and EPS as export options. Read about how the [...]