Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
I like that David McCandless always has a link to the data that he uses to create his charts. He also explains his assumptions and even points out the weak ones and any data he thinks is suspect. This gives his work much greater credibility. He is Tufte-ian in his approach to good data presentation.
All day long I seek to present my work and the large amounts of data I manipulate in a form that is even a fraction as good as these two masters of the profession.
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I like that David McCandless always has a link to the data that he uses to create his charts. He also explains his assumptions and even points out the weak ones and any data he thinks is suspect. This gives his work much greater credibility. He is Tufte-ian in his approach to good data presentation.
All day long I seek to present my work and the large amounts of data I manipulate in a form that is even a fraction as good as these two masters of the profession.
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