Harry Beck’s map of the London Underground makes a complex system appear simple and elegant. I hoped I’d never have to deal with it.įigure 5-2. It reminded me of a complex electrical diagram that I couldn’t understand it looked very “adult-serious” and even a little scary. I saw a gray New York with red, green, and black lines running all over it like a grid (see Figure 5-1), and hundreds of station names attached ( 1). It made a vivid impression on me because it intimidated me. The first subway map I saw was my father’s, circa 1960. I was born in Queens and raised in Brooklyn. The KickMap is the result of my quest to design a more effective subway map, and ultimately to encourage increased ridership. But we still haven’t perfected them as a tool for understanding complex systems - and with 26 lines and 468 stations across five boroughs, the New York City subway system certainly is complex. Maps are one of the most basic data visualizations that we have we’ve been making them for millennia. What follows is Eddie Jabbour’s story, as told to Julie Steele: Note: The field of data visualization is much broader than most people conceive of it, and exploring this breadth was one of our primary goals in compiling the projects described in “ Beautiful Visualization.” In the following excerpt, KickMap designer Eddie Jabbour explains the complexity he faced and the trade-offs he made while reinventing one of the most iconic maps in the world.
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