Wesley Ratko

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Wesley Ratko

@WesleyRatko

Urban planning professional specializing in data visualization, information graphics, and GIS…OR Visual communications professional with a planning background.

Athens, Ohio Katılım Nisan 2021
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Wesley Ratko
Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
I’ve been watching some 90s movies lately: The Fugitive, Se7en, The American President. That period of movie making is really nostalgic for me.
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Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
@adamguild Right decision. Good for you for not wasting any more of the guy’s time. It makes no sense to my why anyone would say anything like that in an interview.
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Wolfgang Bremer@WolfgangBremer·
What’s the difference between UX and UI?
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Jon Schwabish@jschwabish·
Say you have a scatterplot and you decide that the correct range of the horizontal axis is 0%-50%. You also decide the vertical axis range would work as 10%-40%. Do you leave the minimum of the vertical axis at 0% so as to be consistent and not potentially confuse readers?
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Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
@scotthmurray …it's just so awesome. And helpful. And useful. And thoughtful about the way people think and work and learn.
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Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
Been having trouble finishing my information graphics so I went back to Professor @AlbertoCairo's The Functional Art (chapter's 8 and 9) and found the problem: I've not been finding focus…skipping right to how to make the data look pretty.
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Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
I spent the day torturing myself trying to process @ODOT_Statewide bridge data (tabular and geospatial) into an infographic. Success!
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Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
Even if my work is strictly digital, I can't work without a pencil in my hand and a piece of paper close by. I wonder if this will one day be seen as an old person thing?
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Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
When you load a shapefile of every road in Ohio into your map and export to a PDF:
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Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
@storywithdata Every instance that comes to mind involves removing something. Decluttering is my go-to design last step.
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Cole Knaflic
Cole Knaflic@storywithdata·
What is an improvement you've made to a graph where you thought to yourself: "Wow, that was simple—and it's so much better now!"?
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Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
@conniechiiiwa "If you hate the world, you need to eat. If you think the world hates you, you need to sleep." Man, I wish someone had told me that in junior high school.
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Wesley Ratko@WesleyRatko·
@conniechiiiwa Last year I went 8 months without one. It got long enough to put in a ponytail holder. I took a picture and posted it on Facebook. The reaction I got was enough to motivate me to go get a haircut. …my mom really didn't have to be so mean.
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