Information is beautiful /
McCandless, David,
Information is beautiful / David McCandless. - New edition, revised, recalculated and reimagined. - 255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Previous edition published by Collins in 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pop -- Nature -- Web -- Science -- Thought -- Health -- Food -- Film -- Power -- Media -- Life -- Music.
David McCandless is an award-winning writer and journalist. His work has appeared in over 30 magazines in the UK and the US and all over the web. He currently works as creative consultant for Orange and the BBC and writes about the Internet, underground culture and `anything interesting' for Wired and The Guardian. David McCandless is an award-winning writer and journalist. His work has appeared in over 30 magazines in the UK and the US and all over the web. He currently works as creative consultant for Orange and the BBC and writes about the Internet, underground culture and `anything interesting' for Wired and The Guardian.
A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data 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 their relationships making information meaningful, entertaining and beautiful. This is information like you have never seen it before easy to flick through but also engaging enough to study information that comes to life in your hands and your eyes.
9780007492893 (hbk.) 0007492898 (hbk)
Information visualization.
Visual communication.
Design.
Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
Graphic arts.
Graphic design.
Curiosities and wonders.
Statistics--Charts, diagrams, etc.
Statistics--Graphic methods.
Pictorial works.
032.02 MCC / 010953
Information is beautiful / David McCandless. - New edition, revised, recalculated and reimagined. - 255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Previous edition published by Collins in 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pop -- Nature -- Web -- Science -- Thought -- Health -- Food -- Film -- Power -- Media -- Life -- Music.
David McCandless is an award-winning writer and journalist. His work has appeared in over 30 magazines in the UK and the US and all over the web. He currently works as creative consultant for Orange and the BBC and writes about the Internet, underground culture and `anything interesting' for Wired and The Guardian. David McCandless is an award-winning writer and journalist. His work has appeared in over 30 magazines in the UK and the US and all over the web. He currently works as creative consultant for Orange and the BBC and writes about the Internet, underground culture and `anything interesting' for Wired and The Guardian.
A visual guide to how the world really works, through stunning infographics and data 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 their relationships making information meaningful, entertaining and beautiful. This is information like you have never seen it before easy to flick through but also engaging enough to study information that comes to life in your hands and your eyes.
9780007492893 (hbk.) 0007492898 (hbk)
Information visualization.
Visual communication.
Design.
Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
Graphic arts.
Graphic design.
Curiosities and wonders.
Statistics--Charts, diagrams, etc.
Statistics--Graphic methods.
Pictorial works.
032.02 MCC / 010953