Chartgeist

Each month when WIRED magazine arrives in my mailbox, I quickly page for the Chartgeist column. 

Have you seen Chartgeist?  

It’s a regular piece by Jon Eilenberg that uses infograms to take a (humorous) look at what is trending. 

It uses the language of data visualization, but the data doesn't come from Red Shift tables. 

It comes from Eilenberg's observations, feelings, sense of humor. 

Eilenberg bends Venns, Scatter Plots, Bars and Lines into a form of nerdy, of-the-moment poetry. 

I don’t know why Chartgeist doesn’t get more play outside of the magazine because its format is basically social tiles.

And the zeitgeist part makes it continuously relatable.  

To know it is to like it.