I made a timeline of all the people in We Didn't Start the fire when Bridget Bardot passed away. It got popular and put in newspaper stories.
Then three weeks later Nathan Yau makes a timeline of all the people in We Didn't Start the Fire and uses the Bardot passing hook my graph had. But he never mentions my graph
His graph has a few ideas I am going to take to improve my next version. And Yau wrote the first visualisation book I ever read so I do owe him a lot.
This is my previous post about all the news outlets that took the graph itself and never contacted me.
It is polite to reference 'this idea came from this graph' or to send a message to the originator of an idea and it did not happen in this case.
2 comments:
Under EU law I think this would qualify as a breach of database right -- similar to copyright except you don't own the data, just how it's arranged. The US doesn't have any equivalent law though. We have to rely on them being decent chaps instead.
Thanks for the comment. I do not think its a legal thing. More of a politeness one. I have emailed them anyway. Lets see what they say and I will update the post then.
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