Slanting or Italics
One of the most common type crimes is to use so called pseudo italics. To the defense of all who regularly use slanting instead of italic fonts, Microsoft with...
Author: Heiko Spallek
Gallup maps the health in America
Published on March 5th in the NYT: “For the last three years, Gallup has called 1,000 randomly selected American adults each day and asked them about...
Looking at Science Cities
Nature published a special package titled “Looking at the Best Cities for Science” by Richard Van Noorden showcasing interactive graphics. The analysis...
Visualize Mid-Term Elections with Google Maps
I have found on Mashable an interesting article about Visualize Mid-Term Elections with Google Maps: While the actual data compilation is very well...
Social Media Infographics
Infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge (see Wikipedia). Pam Dyer, a Seattle-area marketing professional, has compiled 35...
New PowerPoint Critique
Recently, a new PowerPoint-blame article was published by the New York Times titled “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint” by Elisabeth Bumiller. The...
Scientific Workflow Visual
During the last few days, I was revising a scientific poster which included the description of a complex workflow. The challenge was to “translate” a...
Microsoft Excel to Photoshop: Quantitative Data
Yesterday, I was preparing a poster for the “2010 CTSA Informatics Key Function Committee All-Hands Meeting” held at the Natcher Auditorium, NIH campus in...
Interfaces for large-scale online discussion spaces
It is not uncommon to find discussion spaces with hundreds to thousands of messages and participants. User-generated content (UGC) is the driving force behind...
Points for Font Sizes
I am often ask what “points” stand for and how actual font sizes relate to printed size on posters and on the Web. Here is the short explanation for font...
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