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It’s your first visit to Washington, D.C. Arriving in the capital of the United States, you’re excited to visit all the monuments and museums, see the White House, and scale the Washington Monument. To get from one place to another, you need to take the local public transit system, the Metro. That seems easy enough. There’s just one problem: you don’t have a map.
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I was searching for a compelling example of why visualizing information is so important when I came across the Washington, D.C. Metro map in the Infographic page on Wikipedia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infographic .
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Chart generated via www.census.gov. The actual query is https://www.census.gov/econ/currentdata/dbsearch?program=RESSALES&startYear=2000&endYear=2014&categories=ASOLD&dataType=TOTAL&geoLevel=US&adjusted=1&submit=GET+DATA.
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http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/us-drought-monitor-update-august-5-2014 Produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Created by pasting the text of the U.S. Constitution into wordle.net.
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Post on The Atlantic entitled “Why Good Advertising Works (Even When You Think It Doesn’t).” http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/08/why-good-advertising-works-even-when-you-think-it-doesnt/244252/ .
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Feinleib, D. (2014). Why a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words . In: Big Data Bootcamp. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0040-7_5
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