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		<title>Beautiful interactive pillow graph at the NYT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT has a lovely pillow graph of how the typical consumer&#8217;s spending patterns break down. Take a look! I&#8217;d seen pillow graphs before (my introduction was SequioaView, the disk-space analysis tool) but I&#8217;d never seen them organised into a circle, with such organic structuring &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure it conveys as much information as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The NYT has a lovely pillow graph of how the typical consumer&#8217;s spending patterns break down. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/03/business/20080403_SPENDING_GRAPHIC.html">Take a look</a>! </p>
<p><a title="Visit the source page at the New York Times" href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/03/business/20080403_SPENDING_GRAPHIC.html"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="170" alt="Thumbnail of the graph - go see it at " src="http://www.davemee.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/image2.png" width="244" align="left" border="0"/></a> I&#8217;d seen pillow graphs before (my introduction was <a href="http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//">SequioaView</a>, the disk-space analysis tool) but I&#8217;d never seen them organised into a circle, with such organic structuring &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure it conveys as much information as the cubic pillow map, but it feels more immediate and natural.</p>
<p>The addition of colour to convey change adds an extra dimension, particularly with that Tuftesque colour palette, but shows only a relative snapshot in time. It would be nice to see this animated, adding a &#8216;year&#8217; slider to reallocate space as the year changed and showing absolute percentages, and colour being used to emphasise the relative differences.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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