Information is Beautiful
by David McCandless · first published 2010
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"A visual guide to the way the world really works. Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded by information - from television, from newspapers, from the internet, we're steeped in it, maybe even lost in it. We need a new way to relate to it, to discover the beauty and the fun of information for information's sake. No dry facts, theories or statistics. Instead, Information is Beautiful contains visually stunning displays of information that blend the facts with their connections, their context and their relationships - making information meaningful, entertaining and beautiful. This
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This reminds me of the cover of the book Information is Beautiful. It has a wheel that plots cultures vs. associations and fills in the spaces with the colors that go with them. http://ceslava.com/blog/color-culturas-infografa/ I also found this spreadsheet with the…
on “Colors of the Social World (Wide Web) [Infographic]” ↗…visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition. We are overwhelmed by information – from our phones, our televisions, our computers, our newspapers. This new edition of Information is Beautiful has been revised throughout with over 20 updates and 20 new visualisations. It offers shelter from the flood by visualising data in a new way that blends facts with their connections, their context and…
on “Information Is Beautiful” ↗According to Information Is Beautiful (McCandless, 2009), $465B is enough to feed and educate every child in the developing world for five years.
on “F-35's biggest problems: software and bad relationships” ↗