Data Kitchen: How to Make Spreadsheets Look Good Enough to Eat
Anna Lena Schiller and Lisa Rienermann are behind the amazing Binders Full of Burgers Tumblr that ran food based political visualizations during the 2012 US Presidential Race, and the Wahlwaffeln Tumblr during the 2011 Berlin election.
Spreadsheets and Spaghetti SauceWhen I was little my father always used to cook spaghetti sauce for my friends and me. It was our favorite sauce. Thick, bright red and oh so tasty. What we didn‘t have a clue about was what that sauce was actually made of. Had we known that he put fine grated carrots, celery, tomatoes and (the worst!) beetroot in there, we most likely would have refused to eat it. Clever parent that my father was, he knew that sometimes you need to transform things and conceal its true nature in order show its real value.
Data faces a similar dilemma. We all know that... keep reading
