Knowledge Is Beautiful

Description

"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 is information like you have never seen it before - keeping text to a minimum and using unique visuals that offer a blueprint of modern life - a map of beautiful colour illustrations that are tactile to hold and easy to flick through but intriguing and engaging enough to study for hours." - publisher Here's the TED talk delivered by McCandless in July 2010: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html

Description

Delves into the world of visualized data where stunning infographics that blend the facts with their connections, contexts, and relationships make information meaningful, entertaining, and beautiful. "In this sequel to the bestselling book The Visual Miscellaneum, author David McCandless uses stunning and unique visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works. Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded with information, from television, from newspapers, from the Internet, we're steeped in it. We need a way to relate to it. Enter David McCandless and his stunning infographics, simple, elegant ways to interact with information too complex or abstract to grasp any way but visually. McCandless creates visually stunning displays that blend the facts with their connections, contexts, and relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining, and beautiful. And his genius is as much in finding fresh ways to provocatively combine datasets as it is in finding new ways to show the results" --

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Other Editions

• Information is BeautifulCollins2010-01-01
• Knowledge Is BeautifulHarper Design2013
• Information Is BeautifulHarperCollins Publishers Limited2012-01-01
• Information Is BeautifulHarperCollins Publishers Limited2012-01-01
• Information Is Beautiful (New Edition)HarperCollins Publishers2012-10-01
• Information Is BeautifulHarperCollins Publishers Limited2013-01-01
• Knowledge is BeautifulHarperCollins Publishers2013-02-14