http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser The deance of August Landmesser
https://twitter.com/AleemMaqbool/status/447306090087452672/photo/1 https://twitter.com/QasimNauman/status/447277789121495040/photo/1 International New York Times, weekend of 22nd/23rd March 2014
Measurements of Car Speeds in the Netherlands, by Erik Boertjes
Zero cars Zero speed No sensor data Measurements of Car Speeds in the Netherlands, by Erik Boertjes
NULL ZERO BLANK INVISIBLE
NULL When nothing becomes something http://dojo4.com/clients/gnip
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/03/20/Foreign/Images/ 2014-03-20T072610Z_01_DBG270_RTRIDSP_3_MALAYSIA-AIRLINES-AUSTRALIA-10694.jpg We are not used to no information BBC News, 16th March 2014
http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/latest Billionaires, by Bloomberg
http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/decade-summary/ Metadata of Australian prints and printmaking, interactive by Mitchell Whitelaw
https://www.scmp.com/sites/default/les/2013/05/22/rainfall.jpg Holiday chill?, by South China Morning Post Graphics No data was recorded between 1940 and 1946
http://pbsg.npolar.no/en/dynamic/app/ State of the Polar Bear, by Periscopic [The greying out] was a political statement to Russia to release the data they have about polar bears
http://headwaterseconomics.org/interactive/west-wide-atlas West-Wide Economic Atlas, by Headwaters Economics Data are sometimes withheld by the federal government to avoid the disclosure of potentially condential information.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20070524_REFINERY_GRAPHIC.html Rising Prices at the Pump, by New York Times Graphics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-25927595 Where is it Illegal to be Gay?, by BBC News Graphics
This is one of the rst questions we should ask about any dataset: What is missing? What can we learn from the gaps? Jer Thorp https://twitter.com/chris_swift/status/430688880484831232
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/03/banksy-vancouver-nobody-likes-me/ ZERO Something to represent nothing
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer Mapping America, by New York Times Graphics
https://twitter.com/rsimmon/status/406433840807165952/photo/1 NASA space station view of Mount Etna, via Rob Simmon
http://johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/book_images12.php Cholera Outbreak Map, by John Snow
John Snows cholera map Florence Nightingale Napoleons march William Playfair invented the bar chart What would Tufte say? 3D Pie charts are not very good Tall infographics are everywhere Red-green colour blindness Funny xkcd comic Outrageous maze creation algorithm Random musical interruption Heart-stopping live demo
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/450008187738450975/ From Pyramid to Kite, by The Economist
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3020923/how-the-red-cross-used-tweets-to-save-lives-during-hurricane-sandy Even a lack of postings can tell the Red Cross something. If there is a social media black hole that probably means the area needs help. Hurricane Sandy tweet map, by Floating Sheep
Encoding zero?
POSITION VS. AXIS
http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/the-uniform-distribution/ The Uniform Distribution, by Dark Horse Analytics LENGTH
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2013/03/04/sk-drinking-age-1303.html Drinking Age Across Canada, by CBC News BASELINE ZERO FOR LENGTH
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/242407/EGYPT-INTERNET-BLACKOUT.jpg The Uniform Distribution, by Dark Horse Analytics POSITION/AREA VS. AXIS
Parallel Coordinates, USDA Nutrient Database http://exposedata.com/parallel/ POSITION/SLOPE VS. AXIS
COLOUR SHADING Hewlett Foundation Grants Tool, by Periscopic http://www.hewlett.org/grants-tool/index
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/03/us/20090303_LEONHARDT.html Geography of a Recession, by New York Times Graphics COLOUR SHADING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/may/08/gay-rights-united-states TEXTURE Gay Rights by Type, by Guardian US Graphics
http://fukushima.nzz.ch/#die-schulleiterin DENSITY Fukushima, by NZZ/Interactive Things
http://hint.fm/wind/ Wind Map, by Hint FM DENSITY
http://mapsbynik.tumblr.com/post/82791188950/nobody-lives-here-the-nearly-5-million-census Nobody Lives Here, by Mapsbynik DOTS/POSITION
http://www.scienticamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rd-tags-track-possible-outbreak-pathways-in-hospital NODE/LINK RFID Tags Track Possible Outbreak Pathways in the Hospital, by Jan Willem Tulp
TITLE Male Presidents Female Presidents ANGLE
http://kelsocartography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/carbonatlas.pdf The Carbon Atlas, by The Guardian Graphics AREA
http://www.smartmoney.com/map-of-the-market/ Map of the Market, by The Wall Street Journal AREA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/your-own-words/scotus-gay-marriage/ ANNOTATION SCOTUS Gay Marriage, by The Washington Post Graphics
https://twitter.com/arnicas/status/435473001258442752 BLANK Nothing to represent something
The single most overlooked element in visual design is emptiness [but] space must look deliberately used. Alex White The Elements of Graphic Design by Alex White, pg 65
http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/whythat.html This Page Intentionally Left Blank The primary reason is to offer internet wanderers a place of quietness and simplicity on the overcrowded World Wide Web
http://13pt.com/projects/nyt071211/ Lunge Feeding, by Jonathan Corum
http://graphics-info.blogspot.hk/2012/09/maloej-20-look-at-our-participation.html Iraqs Bloody Toll, by Simon Scarr
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-depth-of-the-problem/931/ TITLEThe Depth of the Problem, by The Washington Post Graphics
http://kottke.org/06/07/independent-infographic Middle East: Who Backs Immediate Ceasere?, by The Independent
http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-polio-cases-drop-50-percent/1776099.html Nigeria Polio Cases Drop 50 Percent in 2013, by Voice of America
http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2013/12/10/gms-new-ceo-is-another-small-crack-in-the-glass-ceiling/ http://www.chezvoila.com/blog/glass-ceiling The Glass Ceiling Persists, by Reuters Graphics | Reworking by Francis Gagnon
http://visual.ly/spotlight-movie-protability Spotlight on Protability, by Krisztina Szcs
http://www.accurat.it/ Nobels No Degrees, by Accurat Studio for Corriere della Sera