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Manuel Lima: The Book of Trees

The data visualization master's new work gives a history and analysis of leafy diagrams

11 April 201424 August 2018

Data is a powerful tool. Whether it’s used for education, research, policies or everyday decision-making, numbers hold power—and often a simple value doesn’t best convey their meaning. Portuguese-born and NYC-based designer, researcher and author Manuel Lima gives meaning to data through visualization. His innovative and influential book “Visual Complexity” gave some of the first in-depth analyses into increasingly ubiquitous field. Inspired by a trend he …

CH 2013 Visualized

An interactive data graphic that breaks down last year's stories from an analytical angle

Josh Rubin

6 January 2014

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For our final look back at 2013 we wanted to take a more quantified view. This interactive data visualization shows CH’s most commonly used keywords as bubbles inside a ring of our main content categories. The sizes of each element reflect the number of stories associated with them and by moving your cursor around, you can see how keywords and categories connect. For example, last …