Statistics can be scurry until you add some fresh shapes and colors… Getting down and dirty with geometry, I just finished designing this set of information graphics for The World Bank. To accompany various reports on slum infrastructure, these diamonds, hexagons, and octagons pack a mean load of info in one punch.
For the infrastructure hexagons above, six basic services are plotted along each axis and by connecting the dots and filling it in you get a quick visual sense of how much people have or don’t have in the slums of Nairobi and Dakar. The more color, the better. Now you can measure the differences in living conditions by big blobs and little blobs! Fun!
