Last Words | Charts and Graphs
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Last Words | Charts and Graphs
I like to think of data visualization as a story. The main character is the user, and we can go two ways. A story of charts and graphs might read a lot like a textbook; however, a story with context, relationships, interactions, patterns, and explanations reads like a novel.
Jeff Hammerbacher • Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story,
Stephanie Stokes Oliver • Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
When Wellington Lytle checked into a Milwaukee hotel after the 1929 stock market crash, he was down to his last four cents and emptied of hope.
But before he put a revolver to his head, he took out a pen and left the following note:
But before he put a revolver to his head, he took out a pen and left the following note:
“My body should go to science, my soul to [Secretary of Treasury] Andrew W. Mellon, and sympathy to my creditors.”
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One man a hole as large as a billiard ball through his forehead, a perfect giant in death.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
“Histography" is interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015.