Has the quality of links on HN declined the last months?
Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
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Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#32Has the quality of links on HN declined the last months?
Yes. This is obviously link bait, SEO content.
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+1 million. That book changed my life, at least as far as information presentation is concerned. It's that good. If you ever make a chart or a graph, you owe it to yourself and your viewers to read that book.
Was there a specific book you had in mind? There are 8 at the link.
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is the one I had in mind. Sorry, I should've checked the link.
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#34Title makes it sound like he's going to delineate the difference between "infographic" and "non-infographic", but it seems to run into the "real Christians" problem where anything he doesn't like "isn't an infographic". Apparently it's categorically impossible for an infographic to be less than fantastic, which is an odd definition of infographic.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you call trivialities I call attention to detail. And your remark about OCD is offensive.
> What you call trivialities I call attention to detail. Yes, but at some point what each one calls something stops, and they have to face objective reality. Now, if you were talking about bad syntax/grammar/spelling, a blinking grey font over a white background, or something like it, yes, we could count that as "attention to detail". But not reading an article because of a mismatch with the title and it's URL (which…
You kind of lost me when you started telling me that I should consider useless the same things you consider useless. I'm sorry I openly questioned the mismatch. I'm just glad that the OP gave an actual answer... rather than just ridicule me.
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#36Has the quality of links on HN declined the last months?
Yes. This is obviously link bait, SEO content.
I'm not sure that's fair, Ian Laurie has been a solid blogger for years and is often critical of current trends. He ventures into technical topics from time to time too.
He may not be your cup of tea but he's certainly not the cheap PR stunt kind of internet marketing guy (I'm not sure you're insinuating that, just wanted to let folks who are interested in web marketing topics that he's worth paying attention to IMO).
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#37Maybe instead of bashing infographics designers would benefit from figuring out why they are so popular? This "Cult of Tufte" stuff is kind of grating. Minard's map showing Napoleon's march into Moscow is a great example. It is an elegant chart that shows 6 key bits of information (# of troops, location, direction, temp, time, attrition), but it's a bore to look at.
It might be the greatest piece of info design ever, but it will draw less attention than a lame "infographic".
I think "Infographics" have huge potential, just like blog slide shows do. Both are universally reviled by "serious" thinkers, but are incredibly popular. I see them revealing a need for more condensed, actionable information, not a scourge. There is signal in that noise.
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#38I agree completely but unfortunately I doubt people will do them right until they stop attracting eyeballs. To the well informed, bad info graphics are a plague on the web. To my sister's teenage friends and my mother's circle of friends they're "oh cool, I don't have to read!". Self respecting graphic designers won't create these awful "info graphics" but anyone who's looking to attract some eyeballs in the hopes of…
Self respecting graphic designers won't create these awful "info graphics"
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#39If you're going to use a flashy javascript popup mechanism to view image links, please make sure at the very least that people whose screens aren't as wide as the image can access the close button!
Re: Your infographic isn't an infographic. It's just a crappy graphic.
#40Title makes it sound like he's going to delineate the difference between "infographic" and "non-infographic", but it seems to run into the "real Christians" problem where anything he doesn't like "isn't an infographic". Apparently it's categorically impossible for an infographic to be less than fantastic, which is an odd definition of infographic.
Let's not pretend there's more controversy here than there really is. If anything, the point he's making is too banal. Almost the whole of _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_ argues against the style of visualization this post argues against.
Virtually all infographics are indeed terrible visualizations of information.