The Weight of Rain

<i>If the only thing you’re doing is coming up with a single number, then you’re doing arithmetic, not visualization.</i> ... <i>And I think that the goal of visualization is not finding elaborate ways to encode information. I try to encode as little as possible.</i> ... <i>But to me this feels like imposing a design on the data, and drawing attention to the design more than the data.</i><p>The whole thing is great, I&#x27;m glad I stuck with it past the first few images to see where he&#x27;s going. These bits stuck out though and his work is so often things I wish I had thought of.

Everything else at style.org is equally amazing. Corum was, IIRC, a student of Tufte&#x27;s.<p>Here&#x27;s an especially great pair:<p><a href="http://style.org/unladenswallow/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;style.org&#x2F;unladenswallow&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http://style.org/strouhalflight/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;style.org&#x2F;strouhalflight&#x2F;</a>

One thing that surprised me was the statement about a sun that would soon engulf the nearby planet - and being so relatively large that the planet was &#x27;more than half&#x27; in sunlight (~ the sun&#x27;s disc shines &#x27;around the corners&#x27;).<p>But isn&#x27;t that true on earth too (to a much smaller degree)? As long as the sun&#x27;s radius is larger than the earth, then sunlight will fall simultaneously on more than a half of the earth&#x27;s surface, no?

Every so often, you follow a link that you&#x27;d thought not worth the click. Therein you discover just how wrong one can be.

I wish I had more than one upvote to give to this talk. I was giddy half way through it and my jaw was hanging open by the end of it. What an inspiring look at the design process. I&#x27;m an interaction designer and this REALLY spoke to me.

This is a great presentation on how to effectively communicate data and it is not just putting raw data on a slide. it takes time and major creativity to communicate. Read the presentation for another reason, a good example of a catchy, relevant intro tied to a closing.... something that makes us all better communicators.

Process and presentation at the level of... poetry.

I don&#x27;t have a comment smart enough for HN to express how cool I think this is. I want to print it out and thumbtack it to my wall like I&#x27;m 14

Fantastically interesting.

I really like the layout of this talk. I hate when people just link to the powerpoint of a talk and expect everyone to follow along like they were there, with no narration.

Although the graphics are excellent, the site&#x27;s hijacking of the left and right arrow keys is not appreciated.