Renson: Another classic is Minard's infographic from 1814: Napoleon's invasion of Russia. According to many, the most beautiful and dramatic infographic ever: in a thick beige line, 422,000 men head for Moscow, in a black thin line only 10,000 of them return to the point of departure.
Paul: Definitely, a good example of an infographic where concrete information and expressiveness come together. By the way, not to be confused with storytelling, because infographics do not do storytelling in my opinion. Data visualization is a much more suitable method for that.
Mijksenaar, infographics do have a disadvantage: they often require a trained reader.
Paul: Not at all, because then you underestimate the reader. It is up to the infographic makers new zealand telegram data to make good work. With the understanding that it is extremely difficult to make good infographics.
Renson: And data visualization, such as in the TV series Nederland van Boven, do you think that has a future – for example because it lends itself to storytelling?