![]() ![]() ![]() 1933 London tube Map © TFL from the London transport Museum collection. 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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