{"id":505945,"date":"2010-04-02T00:36:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T04:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/pushing_infographics_too_far_the_ford_fusion_competition.html"},"modified":"2010-04-02T00:36:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T04:36:59","slug":"pushing-infographics-too-far-the-ford-fusion-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/505945","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Infographics Too Far? The Ford Fusion Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ford_fusion_41.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/ford_fusion_41.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe concept of visualization as a medium is great, but how far can information graphics be pushed until it falls off the cliff? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fusion41.com\/visuals\/\">Fusion 41 Competition<\/a> [fusion41.com] is a recent example of the world of advertising focusing on the visual attraction of data visualization. The competition &#8220;<em>amassed a wealth of raw data generated from all of the teams and activities<\/em>&#8220;, which were then &#8220;brought to life&#8221; in poster-size infographics. <\/p>\n<p>The mass of raw numbers mentioned before include things as &#8220;<em>Most water balloon tosses lengthwise over a car in 1 minute<\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em>Refrigerator magnets stuck to a Ford Fusion<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Fastest time to finish a big gulp<\/em>&#8220;, and several others.<\/p>\n<p>Your <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/pushing_infographics_too_far_the_ford_fusion_competition.html#comments\">opinion<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fw1tKiTlf_B4qE3bW-8cvWiE6e8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fw1tKiTlf_B4qE3bW-8cvWiE6e8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fw1tKiTlf_B4qE3bW-8cvWiE6e8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fw1tKiTlf_B4qE3bW-8cvWiE6e8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=24mjohdm4ro:oSkzem1a6jE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=24mjohdm4ro:oSkzem1a6jE:nQ_hWtDbxek\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=nQ_hWtDbxek\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=24mjohdm4ro:oSkzem1a6jE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=24mjohdm4ro:oSkzem1a6jE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=24mjohdm4ro:oSkzem1a6jE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=24mjohdm4ro:oSkzem1a6jE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=24mjohdm4ro:oSkzem1a6jE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=24mjohdm4ro:oSkzem1a6jE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=24mjohdm4ro:oSkzem1a6jE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/infosthetics\/~4\/24mjohdm4ro\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of visualization as a medium is great, but how far can information graphics be pushed until it falls off the cliff? The Fusion 41 Competition [fusion41.com] is a recent example of the world of advertising focusing on the visual attraction of data visualization. The competition &#8220;amassed a wealth of raw data generated from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}