1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser
The defiance of August Landmesser

2.
https://twitter.com/AleemMaqbool/status/447306090087452672/photo/1
https://twitter.com/QasimNauman/status/447277789121495040/photo/1
International New York Times, weekend of 22nd/23rd March 2014

3.
Measurements of Car Speeds in the Netherlands, by Erik Boertjes

4.
Zero cars
Zero speed
No sensor data
Measurements of Car Speeds in the Netherlands, by Erik Boertjes

5.
NULL ZERO BLANK INVISIBLE

6.
NULL
When ‘nothing’ becomes something
http://dojo4.com/clients/gnip

7.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/03/20/Foreign/Images/
2014-03-20T072610Z_01_DBG270_RTRIDSP_3_MALAYSIA-AIRLINES-AUSTRALIA-10694.jpg
“We are not used to no information”
BBC News, 16th March 2014

8.
http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/latest
Billionaires, by Bloomberg

9.
http://printsandprintmaking.gov.au/explore/decade-summary/
Metadata of Australian prints and printmaking, interactive by Mitchell Whitelaw

10.
https://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/2013/05/22/rainfall.jpg
Holiday chill?, by South China Morning Post Graphics
“No data was recorded between 1940 and 1946”

11.
http://pbsg.npolar.no/en/dynamic/app/
State of the Polar Bear, by Periscopic
“[The greying out] was a political statement to Russia to release the data
they have about polar bears”

12.
http://headwaterseconomics.org/interactive/west-wide-atlas
West-Wide Economic Atlas, by Headwaters Economics
“Data are sometimes withheld by the federal government to avoid the
disclosure of potentially confidential information.”

13.
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20070524_REFINERY_GRAPHIC.html
Rising Prices at the Pump, by New York Times Graphics

14.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-25927595
Where is it Illegal to be Gay?, by BBC News Graphics

15.
This is one of the first questions we should ask
about any dataset: What is missing?
What can we learn from the gaps?
Jer Thorp
https://twitter.com/chris_swift/status/430688880484831232

16.
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/03/banksy-vancouver-nobody-likes-me/
ZERO
Something to represent ‘nothing’

17.
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer
Mapping America, by New York Times Graphics

18.
https://twitter.com/rsimmon/status/406433840807165952/photo/1
NASA space station view of Mount Etna, via Rob Simmon

19.
http://johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/book_images12.php
Cholera Outbreak Map, by John Snow

20.
John Snow’s cholera map
Florence Nightingale
Napoleon’s march
William Playfair invented the bar chart
What would Tufte say?
3D Pie charts are not very good
Tall infographics are everywhere…
Red-green colour blindness
Funny xkcd comic
Outrageous maze creation algorithm
Random musical interruption
Heart-stopping live demo
✔

21.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/450008187738450975/
From Pyramid to Kite, by The Economist

22.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3020923/how-the-red-cross-used-tweets-to-save-lives-during-hurricane-sandy
“Even a lack of postings can tell the Red Cross something. If there is a social
media black hole that probably means the area needs help.”
‘Hurricane Sandy’ tweet map, by Floating Sheep

23.
Encoding zero?

24.
POSITION VS. AXIS

25.
http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/the-uniform-distribution/
The Uniform Distribution, by Dark Horse Analytics
LENGTH

26.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2013/03/04/sk-drinking-age-1303.html
Drinking Age Across Canada, by CBC News
BASELINE ZERO FOR LENGTH

27.
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/242407/EGYPT-INTERNET-BLACKOUT.jpg
The Uniform Distribution, by Dark Horse Analytics
POSITION/AREA VS. AXIS

28.
Parallel Coordinates, USDA Nutrient Database
http://exposedata.com/parallel/
POSITION/SLOPE VS. AXIS

29.
COLOUR SHADING
Hewlett Foundation Grants Tool, by Periscopic
http://www.hewlett.org/grants-tool/index

30.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/03/us/20090303_LEONHARDT.html
Geography of a Recession, by New York Times Graphics
COLOUR SHADING

31.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/may/08/gay-rights-united-states
TEXTURE
Gay Rights by Type, by Guardian US Graphics

32.
http://fukushima.nzz.ch/#die-schulleiterin
DENSITY
Fukushima, by NZZ/Interactive Things

33.
http://hint.fm/wind/
Wind Map, by Hint FM
DENSITY

34.
http://mapsbynik.tumblr.com/post/82791188950/nobody-lives-here-the-nearly-5-million-census
Nobody Lives Here, by Mapsbynik
DOTS/POSITION

35.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rfid-tags-track-possible-outbreak-pathways-in-hospital
NODE/LINK
RFID Tags Track Possible Outbreak Pathways in the Hospital, by Jan Willem Tulp

36.
TITLE
Male Presidents
Female Presidents
ANGLE

37.
http://kelsocartography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/carbonatlas.pdf
The Carbon Atlas, by The Guardian Graphics
AREA

38.
http://www.smartmoney.com/map-of-the-market/
Map of the Market, by The Wall Street Journal
AREA

39.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/your-own-words/scotus-gay-marriage/
ANNOTATION
SCOTUS Gay Marriage, by The Washington Post Graphics

40.
https://twitter.com/arnicas/status/435473001258442752
BLANK
‘Nothing’ to represent something

41.
The single most overlooked element in
visual design is emptiness… [but] space
must look deliberately used.
Alex White
‘The Elements of Graphic Design’ by Alex White, pg 65

42.
http://www.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/whythat.html
This Page Intentionally Left Blank
The primary reason is to offer internet
wanderers a place of quietness and simplicity
on the overcrowded World Wide Web

43.
http://13pt.com/projects/nyt071211/
Lunge Feeding, by Jonathan Corum

44.
http://graphics-info.blogspot.hk/2012/09/malofiej-20-look-at-our-participation.html
Iraq’s Bloody Toll, by Simon Scarr

45.
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-depth-of-the-problem/931/
TITLEThe Depth of the Problem, by The Washington Post Graphics

46.
http://kottke.org/06/07/independent-infographic
Middle East: Who Backs Immediate Ceasefire?, by The Independent

47.
http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-polio-cases-drop-50-percent/1776099.html
Nigeria Polio Cases Drop 50 Percent in 2013, by Voice of America

48.
http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2013/12/10/gms-new-ceo-is-another-small-crack-in-the-glass-ceiling/
http://www.chezvoila.com/blog/glass-ceiling
The Glass Ceiling Persists, by Reuters Graphics | Reworking by Francis Gagnon

49.
http://visual.ly/spotlight-movie-profitability
Spotlight on Profitability, by Krisztina Szücs

50.
http://www.accurat.it/
Nobels No Degrees, by Accurat Studio for Corriere della Sera

51.
http://yusylvia.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/gestalt_illustration-01.jpg?w=604&h=251&h=251
http://www.creativebloq.com/art/art-negative-space-8133765

52.
http://www.theispot.com/whatsnew/2014/3/brian-stauffer-out-of-control.htm
New York Time Op-Ed, Out of Control, by Brian Stauffer

53.
http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-deaths-in-florida-increased-with-stand-your-ground-2014-2
Gun Deaths in Florida, by Reuters Graphics

54.
http://cementeclipses.com/
INVISIBLE
A bit more thinking about ‘nothingness’

55.
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/see-everything-thats-beautiful-about-advertising-two-simple-print-ads-bookstore-154627
Advert for Corre Cutia Bookstore, by Lápisraro Comunicação

56.
The best design is invisible; the viewer should
not see your design. They should only see
your content.
Edward Tufte

57.
http://woodchanges.com/
Wood Changes, by Luis Carli and Rafael Passarelli

58.
You know you’ve achieved perfection in design,
not when you have nothing more to add, but
when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

59.
http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1193675/remembering-kowloon-walled-city
http://lasombra.blogs.com/la_sombra_del_asno/2013/05/sichuans-earthquake.html
Infographic portfolio of Adolfo Arranz, SCMP

60.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/19/sexy.data/index.html?_s=PM:OPINION
The clearest, most precise graphic in the world
communicates nothing if nobody looks at it
Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg

61.
Changing Face of America, by NBC Nightly News
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3029318/design-crime/the-worst-infographic-of-2014-so-far

62.
Guidance to the user is needed most at the
moment the statistics are first made public. The
news media look to the statistical release to
provide an objective account of the statistics.
They may regard the absence of such text as
indicative of partisan influence.
Saying nothing is not necessarily politically
neutral.
Richard Alldritt, UK Statistics Authority
http://www.statsusernet.org.uk/blogs/richard-alldritt/2012/05/17/a-word-about-numbers

63.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/07/the-less-americans-know-about-ukraines-location-the-more-they-want-u-s-to-
intervene/
Where’s Ukraine?, via Washington Post ‘Monkey Cage’

64.
Pay attention to ‘nothing’ because it
really is worth something

65.
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