What Killed The Infographic?

If you've seen fewer experimental data visualizations lately, it's only because the medium has grown up and gotten a job. A few years ago, the Internet was awash in groundbreaking data visualizations. There was Aaron Koblin's deeply influential map of flight patterns around the U.S. Periscopic's exhaustive, haunting portrait of gun violence in the United States. Jer Thorp and John Underkoffler's Minority Report-like interface for exploring the galaxy.

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