138 Years of Popular Science
Jer Thorp hat zusammen mit Mark Hansen eine Timeline des Popular Science Magazine gestaltet. Link
Es sind unter anderem Worthäufigkeiten zu bestimmten Begriffen zu sehen, die an William Playfairs Chart of Universal Commercial History erinnern.
Interessant ist auch der Einblick in seine Arbeitsweise gibt. Die Dead-Ends und den "top of a mountain of iterations" kann ich nur unterschreiben.
"I built a custom tool in Processing that pre-visualized the frequency plots of each word so that I could go through many, many possibilities and identify the ones that would be interesting to include in the final graphic. This is a really common approach for me to take – building small tools during the process of a project that help me solve specific problems. For this visualization, I actually ended up writing 4 tools in Processing – only one of which contributed visually to the final result.
My working process is riddled with dead-ends, messy errors and bad decisions – the ‘final’ product usually sits on top of a mountain of iterations that rarely see the light of day. "