The Grove Thoughts from and for The Grove Worldwide Network

This is for all the information design enthusiasts out there. This website was forwarded to us by colleague Ken Homer. As he put it: “The only thing obscene about it is the amount of time you are liable to spend there.”

A collection of interesting charts, tables, maps, and interactive data toys — with a focus on economics and graphic design.

They post a new sample each day. Today’s infographic is a startling comparison of Swine Flu Mortality to other causes of death.

http://chartporn.org

I met up with Bryce Pearsall in Vancouver BC for the annual Dean’s Forum of the Large Firm Roundtable where I facilitate 15 Large firm partners talking with 15 deans of architectural schools each year. Bryce is Chair this year, and a long-term Grove client with his own architecture/ engineering firm DLR Group (The post before this about DLRU is about his firm). In the context of talking about the economy and the rough time A&E firms are having, he forwarded me a link to a very compelling graphic treatment of job gains and losses in the US over the last 4 years. Click through the whole presentation from the beginning and see the monthly stats change in graphic form. It’s a smart use of graphic language and a pretty shocking picture of what has happened since mid 2008. Click “The Geography of Jobs” to see the map.

Geography of Jobs Map