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Information Is Beautiful (2009)

by David McCandless(Favorite Author)

4.3 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0007294662 (ISBN13: 9780007294664)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Collins

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 cluttered or confusing, complicating what could have been shown more easily with words. The real power of image to show information has been done much better in other books, such as Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte.
review 2: To say that this is a book about graphs would really be selling it short. It’s true that this book is about outstanding graphical representations of quantifiable data (phew!) but the data is so very interesting! What kind of data you ask? Well let’s see…we ... morehave hangover cures from around the world, most edited pages on Wikipedia, types of disease you are most likely to get based on body type and ethnicity, and my personal favorite “everyone’s good at something” which lists the various countries of the world and what they are number one at. (By the way, America leads the world in serial killers. USA! USA!) The book features just about every graph you could imagine and some you probably can’t, they are colorful, eye catching and just plain cool. You do not read this book as much as view it so I will say that this is a must view! less

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