Doing the NYC Subway Map Better
Though we’ve been making them for millennia, there’s still great room for improvement in our mapmaking skills.
Microsoft’s Street Slide, Better Than Google Street View
Microsoft Research demonstrated a new street-level image viewing option that knocks the socks off of Google Maps Street View this week at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. Called Street Slide, the technology allows users to zoom out from the fish-eye pannable photos you see on standard street view options and instead see a series of flat panoramic photos stitched together like a timeline.
7 Basic Rules for Making Charts and Graphs
quote: Charts and graphs have found their way into news, presentations, and comics. Here’s how you can and should use them across genres.
And Now for Some Propaganda
illustration: Early Soviet propaganda from Strakhov Braslavskij depicting women as the new men.
