June 10, 2008

Infographic goodness

The NYT has been kicking out the good infographic jams lately:

• Andrew Kuo created a funny, handsome infographic on why music festivals are worth skipping.  For more from Andrew, see his blog + previous.
• Matthew Bloch, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox have created an interesting Flash-based infographic that totes up "All of Inflation’s Little Parts."  I often find presentations like this dense, impenetrable, and/or over-designed, but this one’s an exception.  [Via]
• Adobe XD guy Ethan Eismann points out a couple of video-based info presentations. In one of them, interactive voting is tied in with the content.

Elsewhere:

• Ben Terrett pulls together lots of interesting visualizations. [Via]

• Rorschach Economics: Japan’s Phillips Curve looks like Japan; cigarette consumption looks like Virginia.
• It’s been around a while, but I still dig Michal Migurski’s flashy newsmap

Photoshop science: Fugazi edition

(In the Donnie Brasco, instead of DC punk, sense of the word)

• In Scientific American, Adobe collaborator Hany Farid writes about 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo.  [Via everyone ever]
• When we beefed up technical imaging tools in CS3 Extended, faking research results was not the goal! "The magnitude of the fraud is phenomenal," says Dr. Farid. [Via Doug Nelson]
• "In Russia, the in-flight movie watches you…"  Could aircraft security systems detect suspicious behavior just by staring at you?  Unsurprisingly Boing Boing thinks it’s "snake oil."