Show HN: Interactive infographics (early example)

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I wish the columns that didn't have any data in certain countries wouldn't animate to 0 but fade out instead. With these kinds of comparisons, the only way to really see how different segments are trending is click the button and watch for the overall direction of the animation. When a ton of columns drop to "no data", it makes scanning the animation a lot harder. If they just faded out I think it would be easy to mentally eliminate them from your scan.

Hope you like the infographic. The guys at infoactive are launching a startup with this type of interactive infographics. Pretty much all infographics I've seen previously have static data.

I think you could take this concept a lot further, more complex data interaction, and the ability to display a lot of data and organize it in useful and interesting ways.

The data is interesting but the quality factor is the most important. I.E. A 20000 dollar web designer may actually cost you money in the long run vs a higher paid one.

Hope so! It's built with a web platform (now in alpha) that creates interactive graphics from live data. Interested to hear feedback.

This rendering of the data is neat, but there's no clear way for anyone to provide a different rendering or access the underlying data (it's embedded somewhere in a script) to scrape or mash up with anything else. It's also not a progressive enhancement over a static version of the svg; it's just blank unless you're willing to run that js.

Good thoughts. There's a lot to be added and improved upon - this is just the beginning. We're planning to incorporate all of the above, so this feedback helps.

That's pretty sweet actually. The future of infographics?

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