Why shouldn’t data be carnivalesque? Peter Grundy, otherwise known as The Great Grundini, is an exemplar of the commedia dell’arte style of data visualization, a maestro of transforming statistics into pictorial passion plays. Icons are his meat, and they are seasoned with wit and humor, color and conviviality. They brighten up the stage, the page and the screen. They scroll with a certain rock and roll.
Periodically, Grundini issues a paean to his accomplishment, and I was fortune enough to obtain Grundini5, which is excerpted below. His antics with form and content do not disappoint, and this edition focuses on his iconography—a distillation of universal symbols filtered through Grundini’s distinctive lens that makes data pictures with bits of information and transforms information bytes into vivid pictures.
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