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Aaron Koelker used a receipt printer to print a six-foot long map of the Wakulla River in Florida. He outlined his process with Adobe Illustrator and the printer. I kind of want a thermal printer now.
See also: grocery receipt with charts.
Tags: Aaron Koelker, receipt, river
Posted by in Aaron Koelker, maps, receipt, river
If you’ve eaten at a restaurant lately, you might have noticed a substantially higher bill than you’re used to. You’d be right to assume that it’s because of things like inflation and pandemic-induced prices, but you might not realize how much the cost of ingredients, labor, and a new takeout business model has gone up for restaurants. Priya Krishna and Umi Syam, for The New York Times, redesigned a single receipt to show a more detailed breakdown.
The receipt presentation and color-coded scrolling are tops. It’s a well-made table that works with the copy to highlight items.
Tags: inflation, New York Times, receipt, restaurant
Posted by in inflation, Infographics, New York Times, receipt, restaurant
In prototyping mode, Susie Lu incorporated visualization into the common receipt from the grocery store. It gives a price breakdown for money spent on an actual receipt-sized paper using the same thermal printer you might see at the store.
It reminds me of the redesigned nutrition facts on a milk carton. Whatever happened to that trend of sticking visualization on everyday things? I think it’s comeback time.
Posted by in receipt, remake, Statistical Visualization
Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially thought he had a fun pattern at hand. It looked like the shopper always put things in his or her cart in the same order every time. It turns out though that the order just came from the computer ordering items by category. It had nothing to do with shopping order.
Familiarize yourself with your data source before you go deep diving for insights.
Posted by in Mistaken Data, receipt, shopping