Dave Yost - Information Design and visualization

Original stuff

• Visualizing lifestyle vs. lifespan - years of life lost is the ultimate impact statement
• A rendering of Tom Lehrer’s Elements lyrics
• Powerpoint Corrupts Absolutely, after Tufte
• Menu item highlighting
• Inside-out multiplication table
• Using a spreadsheet instead of a calculator with a tape
• Summer Calendar - the summer timeline all in one strip
• Line-wrap display in text editors
• Letter to Mercury Center suggesting use of bold and non-use of all caps

Stuff I like

• Edward Tufte - his books Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, Visual Explanations
• ISO 8601 date and time representation standard, e.g. 1999-11-18 or 1999-11-18T00:49Z

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http://Yost.com/information-design/ - this page
1997-04-26 Created
2008-10-07 Modified