Books by David McCandless
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review 1: This book is a splending marketing idea for a coffee table book, and the ratings on this site make it clear that it is a success in that sense. However, it's content does not match the idea. Few of the images really use the power of image to depict information, and many are clutt...
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review 1: So, this book was an intriguing one because I wasn't entirely sure what it was all about to begin with but as I continued reading it I discovered that it is essentially just a book about verious, random facts and these facts and figures and speculative ideas are all displayed in ...
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review 1: This book is a splending marketing idea for a coffee table book, and the ratings on this site make it clear that it is a success in that sense. However, it's content does not match the idea. Few of the images really use the power of image to depict information, and many are clutt...
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review 1: Reviewing before I mark this as "read" because this is a book to dip in and out of.David McCandless is a graphic designer who compiled (I can't quite say "wrote" - it's really more "designed") this book as a means of exploring - and demonstrating - how to make information "approa...
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review 1: First, I question most of the data sources. Some were stated clearly enough that I understood what biases might be inherent in them, but others I would have to look up online, and I'm too lazy when I have the book right here.Second, it's nice to see information visualization fro...
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review 1: Fun first and foremost, but really really shitty from an informational angle (sources: wikipedia.org, google.com, etc.) and probably from a graphic design angle as well (I don't know about much about this, but its neon colorscheme would probably make anyone sick after a while). I...