Information is Beautiful

A side effect of information overload is being unable to put the avalanche of data and statistics into some sort of meaningful context. David McCandless, author of Information is Beautiful, gives an 18-minute talk showing how rearranging data into visual patterns helps us understand it and put it in perspective.

Don't have 18 minutes? Definitely check out the Billion Dollar-O-Gram from 2009.




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