Information Ocean

I'm currently locked in struggle at work with the creators of a trainwreck of a graph that I'm responsible for maintaining, that smushes a zillion lines together. I've suggested, as someone with a professional knowledge of these things, that a small...

and Abraham Lincoln too. Not to disrespect Lincoln, it's just that I can't offhand think of an information graphic hook to hang his birthday on. Darwin has this:
The tree format can't have been new; it's inherent in the Linnaean classification system (although the tree diagram's logical equivalent, the system of nested boxes, is probably closer to the original thought there) but the picture from Darwin's notebooks...

Visual tables
Visual intelligence is arranging a set of facts on a page or screen so their implications are comprehensible instead of incomprehensible, and sorting and grouping can help a lot. A common example in published stats is the American states: there are fifty...

What I love about these is that the design of the "design stamps" is itself so beautiful, in the most understated way: clean white background and black and grey sans serif text and icon, nothing else visible except the subject of the stamps.  I...