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Teaching Online Journalism

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Michael Phelps records: Infographic

This graphic is a very nice example of how design for online information presentation can be — and should be — different from print presentation.

Chasing destiny - USA Today online graphic

It’s a simple concept — compression of space. Because the line for each different swimming event can roll open like a window shade and show us a nice big chart, the graphic designer can give us a ton of information in a small footprint on the page.

You roll over the vertical bars to get details — name, date, and clock time. Orange bars represent Mark Spitz. Red bars represent Michael Phelps. Blue bars — everyone else!

I wish they would have also color-coded Ian Thorpe, the Aussie swimming phenom, but you can’t have everything.

Detail - USA Today graphic

I also would like to see one or two light horizontal hairlines at some time intervals, e.g. at 1:45:00 in the 200m freestyle. It would help me grok the data faster.

The project was conceived by sports editor Gary Kicinski and developed and produced by designer Juan Thomassie over a two-week period preceding the start of the Olympic Games. (Source)

(Graphic from USA Today.)

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