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I'm Jojo Pasion Malig. I'm the usual suspect behind the night desk of the Philippines' leading news website. I like making interactive data eye candy. Mild prescriptivist.

The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design [Smashing Magazine]

Interactive heat map: Counting the cost of Typhoon Pedring

Typhoon Pedring (international name Nesat), which struck the Philippines Tuesday morning, has now killed at least 48 people and left 30 others missing.

It has either displaced or directly affected more than 1.3 million people, according to civil defense officials.

The typhoon also damaged properties, including farmlands, amounting to more than P4 billion, according to latest estimates from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

Click, zoom, and scroll through on the interactive Google map to survey the damage left behind by the typhoon.

The darker the red, the more people that the typhoon directly affected.

Data source: NDRRMC as of 6pm, September 30, 2011. Data visualization via Google Fusion Tables.

Welfare state, almost.

A quick Many Eyes infographic I made to show which sector in the Philippines will get the most public funds next year.

Social democrats will be pleased, but that large chunk representing debt servicing? Oof.

(via futurejournalismproject)

Infographic: Who’s Using What Media and When?

Created by: MBA Online

(via thebroadcaster)

thebroadcaster:

INFOGRAPHIC: How Agencies Are Spending Online Media Budgets

Where are all these advertising media agencies putting their clients’ money into?

thebroadcaster:

Infographic: Which Countries have the most vacation?

They should really include Sweden. Insane amount of paid vacation here.

The rise of infographics: Lessons from the Social Media Weekend
If you couldn’t attend, here’s the top takeaways from the panelists:
- Max Shron, OkCupid: “Our eyes are good at taking information in, better than any other way. We take information and put it in a form that fits in one eye-span. Infographics take information and make it decidable.”
- Shane Snow, Visual.ly: “Visualization is a great storytelling medium and is also strong in driving digital traffic. The wonderful thing is that there are a million ways to tell a story with visualizations.”
- Russ Marshalek, Flavorpill: “At its base, an infographic is a visual representation of some form of information, that may not necessarily be visual. It helps you understand the data better. They’re not viral by nature.”
- Matt Owens, Athletics: “In this time, there is a trend to make data cool and sexy and good to use. In what we do on a daily basis, what we do on the web, it is all about the hang time. Is it the joke of the moment that you need to jump on.”
via CBS News

The rise of infographics: Lessons from the Social Media Weekend

If you couldn’t attend, here’s the top takeaways from the panelists:

- Max Shron, OkCupid: “Our eyes are good at taking information in, better than any other way. We take information and put it in a form that fits in one eye-span. Infographics take information and make it decidable.”

- Shane Snow, Visual.ly: “Visualization is a great storytelling medium and is also strong in driving digital traffic. The wonderful thing is that there are a million ways to tell a story with visualizations.”

- Russ Marshalek, Flavorpill: “At its base, an infographic is a visual representation of some form of information, that may not necessarily be visual. It helps you understand the data better. They’re not viral by nature.”

- Matt Owens, Athletics: “In this time, there is a trend to make data cool and sexy and good to use. In what we do on a daily basis, what we do on the web, it is all about the hang time. Is it the joke of the moment that you need to jump on.”

via CBS News