TRC

How much do you like it when information is visually conveyed in a very pleasing manner? The New York Times Graphics Department is particualrly adept at this. It is a group of about 30 people with various backgrounds who create the visual representations for the Times publications. The group is mainly composed of cartographers, illustrators and programmers. The graphics editor Amanda Cox is unusual in that she is a statistician. You can see her ability to visualize data in the following examples. The Times graphics group dominated the gold medals at the Malofiej Awards, the most important prize for graphic design. Cox won the gold for Individual Portfolio.

Here are some examples of the group's work. Take your time to look at how simply, yet appealingly these are laid out and the amount of information that is packed in with minimal clutter. The designers have been able to stretch their imaginations in the online edition in ways not possible with the paper copy.

Ebb and flow of movies

This chart won the Peter Sullivan Best of Show award at the Malofiej awards. Move the slider bar at the bottom to go back and forth in time to see the ebbs and flows.

Sector Snapshot

This is the 2007 Winner of the Peter Sullivan Award. It is a seemingly simple chart but take to the time to roll/click your mouse over various options to see how much information is built into this interactive chart.

Home run hitters

An excellent chart of Barry Bonds and other great home run hitters. By showing the career home run statistics of Bonds in comparison with other great hitters, plenty of context is provided for Bonds' achievement. It is also interesting to note the clear spike in Bonds and Sosa's performance at a very late stage in their career.

All the little parts of inflation

This uses a technique called Voronoi diagrams to show information.

From Time magazine

Joe Lertola's 3D rendering of population shifts in NY City between day and night.

To see more examples of his work, go to his website.