Information Is Beautiful (New Edition)

Amazing and very informational book. Filled with high quality diagrams and images and beautiful drawings. Would recommend for adults and older children though as there is some adult content.Great book for someone who is curious and fascinated with the living world around them.

Got this in my Reading Room. Great, great book. Full of fun, thought-provoking graphics.Some of my favorites:p.100 - Moral Matrix - I choose to be "Modern - New Age"p.242 - Making a Book - This seems _very_ similar to my company's software development programsp.156 - Types of Coffee - Why can't Starbucks make me a Granita con Panna ?p.151 - Body By - HaHaHa!!p.134 - Dangers of Death - I'm still trying to map this onto my activities list_Buy_This_Book_

Awesome book! Amazing graphs and design ! Very educational !

This book offers a simplicity to a complex world. Each page is worthy of some rumination and offers almost a daily meditation on my own perspectives and prejudice. I have used some displays as warm-ups in my Stats class to offer a place for discussion or as an example of a different way to display information. Unfortunately the medium of the print makes some displays too small to read or incomplete where the binding joins the pages. However, overall worth the purchase.

Best romp through big data. It’s a lovely and fun book just cramp backed with fascinaitng things to learn about the world and people.

I ordered the book it shipped the next business day and arrived 5 days early. My book is in excellent condition and I will be ordering again very soon.

Love this book... Could look at it for hours!

Pretty imagery that works fairly well as visual design, however they don't work that well as data/information visualizations.

NO CABE DUDA QUE EL LIBRO OFERTADO, CUMPLEN CON LAS ESPECTATIVAS DE LOS CLIENTES MAS EXIJENTES, UN SERVICIO Y ATENCIÓN SIN DUDA MUY BUENA

indeed!! It is a beautiful book as the title suggests and informative too. It exceeded my expectations. The insights the book awakens are amazing.

"Information is Beautiful" stellt Sachverhalte wie das amerikanische Wahlsystem oder philosophische Theorien, Zusammenhänge unter Gruppierungen wie Musikgenres oder Lebensmitteln, und komplexe Daten wie die häufigsten Suchanfragen im Internet nach Ländern oder Gensequenzen geschickt und abwechslungsreich dar. Dabei gehen die Illustrationen oft weit über die gewöhnlichen Darstellungen wie Wortwolken und Balkendiagramme hinaus und verdeutlichen Informationen aus vielen verschiedenen Domänen.Die Lektüre ist unterhaltsam und bietet oft die Möglichkeit, neue Facetten zu sehen und weitere Fakten zu lernen.

Ce livre est un ensemble de dessins représentant des données, on est à la fois intéressé par le fond et la forme. Les manières de représenter les données sont assez originales dans l'ensemble, et les données traitées sont parfois inattendues. Je conseille de visualiser également la conf sur TED

Apparently there were numerous errors in earlier versions of this book, but this review is for the 2012 edition which would appear to have corrected the omissions and errors of earlier editions.The most serious fault that I can level at McCandless's "Information is Beautiful" is that is has almost single handedly given rise to the infographic obsession that means that you can hardly go online without encountering some designer's view of information that is all style and little substance. However, returning to McCandless's book shows how, when done with thought and insight, the graphic can add to the reader's understanding of the data. The book is one part modern art, one part geek-porn and several parts graphic design. It's not only interesting, but is indeed as beautiful as the title promises it to be.When the book was first published, in 2009, many of the designs were seldom used - not most of them will be familiar and that threatens to minimise the importance of the book in the history of infographic design. Rather like HDR photography, a badly thought out infographic is dull and a bit cliche now, but when done properly, they really do get the message over. A picture is said to paint a thousand words, but a well-designed infographic can get over more than that. And this is full of them.McCandless is good at sourcing the data. One slight concern though is that there is a fair bit that is sourced from Wikipedia - which is seldom the most reliable of sources on anything. With that caveat, this book is a modern design classic. It's beautiful, interesting, clever and thoughtful.