Check out these charts by Karl Hartig. My favorite is the consumer electronics one. It shows how long it took consumers to adopt electronic stuff. I used it in my book called Rules for Revolutionaries. I’ve been trying to find it ever since, and my buddy Bryan came through today.
Written at: Palo Alto, California.
Hey Guy, it would be awesome that have a “printer friendly page” option for your blog entries… There are times would be great to print and take for the road…
ceo
This is someone who has nothing to do, questioning who has much to say. The charts looked great. One question thou, what responsibility does evangelists have? And do evangelists have to work overtime. And what classes do I have to take in order for me to become an evangelist…..GK, I really enjoyed reading your blog.
I love these! Are you familiar with the work of Edward Tufte? He wrote the definitive book(s) on information graphics design.
Hartig
Charts, diagrams and data visualization by Karl Hartig. Beautiful work. Who is he? I don’t know. Refreshingly, there’s no information about him on his website. Guy Kawasaki, who pointed to this site in his post today, used one of the
These really are fascinating charts! It would be interesting to see the Music Industry chart expanded out to the present to reflect the introduction and triple digit adoption of digital as a music distribution means.
Any leads on that?
-Jesse
Great charts it shows the link between technology and the economy and vice versa!!
Tell Brian thanx!
Greg!
I was going to say, these charts look influenced by or highly convergent with the charting design principles and observations in Edward Tufte’s (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/) “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” and other books. Awesome charts.
I agree with the preceding Tufte comment. That was my first thought.
Some of the graphs have embellishments that are quite distracting and in some respects deceptive.
Any example of the simply distracting is the Immigration graph having the shadows. I realize that it looks cool and might even be more compelling, but its damn distracting.
Any example of the mildly deceptive is the US Population changes graph. The fact that the peaks and valleys are a principle conveyer of intuitive information, choosing the sliced in look for the grid points was a really bad idea. Simple lines would have sufficed. My first blush thought was that every decade there is a curious sudden drop and recovery. Almost looks like missing data.
Then again, after reading Tufte’s books, I am very intolerent of such chart junk.
Those look pretty cool. Good find.
Hi Guy,
Your blog is very informative to people who have aspirations in line with what you have acheived. You are covering many topics of which some are not even given enough thought.
However, I wish you cover the following and put out a tree that shows how different promising tech areas are progressing. Kind of like Wireless, Cable, Video, VoIP, mulitmedia gaming, storage etc., give your perspective at what rate each area is progressing in the ROI terms. Similar what you or VC world think each area will be say 5 years from now given the experience you have with successful and failures technologies. I know it is a long topic can you atleast throw some links which give a snapshot of emerging techonologies. This I think will be very helpful for many readers.
Data Visualization
Ever since reading Edward Tuftes book Envisioning Information way back when Ive been fascinated with how to best present complex information. So today I made a great find, a set of 12 charts byKarl Hartig. Each one can be down…
I love these charts. It would be great to have some of them updated…..
Tufte gave rise to critique. He didn’t design anything.
Information design was old before Tufte came along, so Tufte gets way too much credit.
Try “Soak Wash Rinse Spin: Tolleson Design.”
The request for more discussion of technologies miss the point. The deal mat
The technology is less important in a pitch than the deal.
The place to look for the information you are seeking is Gartner’s Hype Cycle.
I am a geek, or at least I guy who loves numbers, and I absolutely love those charts. I really love that population chart in 3d. It is truly incredible! Thanks for sharing this great find with us, Guy!
I with you certainly agree, though much seems to me not absolutely correctly, With pleasure I shall visit once again, I hope you will add to told.
Guy Kawasaki: Great charts
Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. where he was one of the individuals responsibl…