{ Wednesday, April 2, 2003 }
An infographic on Le Monde about how SARS has spread, with a good chart of how many infected/dead. (In French). And another SARS infographic on the New York Times site, sans chart.
(At first glance the Le Monde chart seemed clearer and more concise than the NYTimes Chart, but having studied both, I have to conclude that while the chart on the French version is useful, the high-contrast colors, capital letters and curved lines are confusing, whereas the NYTimes version does an excellent job with their colors (smallest distinguishable difference à la Tufte), typography, lines and text, but is not as effective with the numbers (1 and 2 only ??) and the map, which becomes meaningless depicting SARS outside of Asia. I'm paying more attention to this stuff because I'm getting back into design.)
LINK | 12:27 AM | TB
The NY Times graphic is definitely more Tufte-like...whether it really lives up to Tufte's standards is arguable.
Paul | April 3, 2003 10:09 PMWhy is Tufte regarded so highly by a certain subset of the design community? I've read and looked through his books and found nothing particularly startling or insighful. Is it because there is really just a dearth of anglophone design criticism (something beyond the "rah-rah" variety) and Tufte partially fills this void?
Caterina,
"[...] the map, which becomes meaningless depicting SARS outside of Asia"
I don't think it is that it becomes "meaningless." It is that it conflicts with another interpretation of SARS as a global issue. This is what I tried to articulate in my ealier post.
Then, if one takes into account the function of the NY Times product, it becomes necessary to ask if there is encoded in its graphic a desire to mis-inform, or to bias its readership.
Caterina,
"[...] the map, which becomes meaningless depicting SARS outside of Asia"
I don't think it is that it becomes "meaningless." It is that it conflicts with another interpretation of SARS as a global issue. This is what I tried to articulate in my ealier post.
Then, if one takes into account the function of the NY Times product, it becomes necessary to ask if there is encoded in its graphic a desire to mis-inform, or to bias its readership.
"Sick Man from Guangdong." Wasn't that a play by Brecht?
Prentiss Riddle | April 4, 2003 11:31 AMTwo good sources on SARS I've found are flyingchair.net (Hong Kong) and pekingduck.blogspot.com (Beijing). Both are fantastic writers and eyewitnesses. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary, usually right-on.
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I interpret the NY Times graphic as presenting the disease as more directly connected with East and Southeast Asia, while the Le Monde graphic focuses on how SARS is a problem on a world-wide scale. Though the current prevailing opinion does hold that SARS originates in Asia, and this is represented in both graphics, it seems to me that the NY Times, by utilizing the map as a background to their graphic places more weight (blame?) on this region of the world. On the other hand, the graphic from Le Monde addresses the transmission of SARS as a world problem, though one that originates in China.
de-con | April 3, 2003 9:04 PM