Understanding Data - Data Points: Visualization That Means Something - page 14

composition, and how areas grow and shrink. In short, the data paints a picture
of who lives in America. However, the data, collected and maintained by the
government, can show only so much about the individuals, and it's hard to
grasp who the people actually are.
What are their likes and dislikes? What kind of personality do they have? Are
there major differences between neighboring cities and towns?
Media artist Roger Luke DuBois took a different kind of census, via 19 million
online dating profiles in A More Perfect Union . When you join an online dating
FIGURE 1-8 Selected pages from
2005 Annual Report by Nicholas
Felton, http://feltron.com