Knowledge Is Beautiful

Description:

"A visual guide to the way the world really works. Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded by information - from television, from newspapers, from the internet, we're steeped in it, maybe even lost in it. We need a new way to relate to it, to discover the beauty and the fun of information for information's sake. No dry facts, theories or statistics. Instead, *Information is Beautiful* contains visually stunning displays of information that blend the 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 - keeping text to a minimum and using unique visuals that offer a blueprint of modern life - a map of beautiful colour illustrations that are tactile to hold and easy to flick through but intriguing and engaging enough to study for hours." - publisher Here's the TED talk delivered by McCandless in July 2010: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html

subjects: information,  visualization,  graphic design,  design,  visualisation,  illustrations,  data,  Curiosities and wonders,  Information science,  Handbooks, vade-mecums,  Questions and answers,  Encyclopedias and dictionaries,  Pictorial works,  nyt:culture=2014-11-09,  New York Times bestseller,  World history,  Knowledge, sociology of,  Statystyka,  Metody graficzne,  Tabele, wykresy,  Wizualizacja informacji,  Curiosities and wonders--pictorial works,  Questions and answers--pictorial works,  Miscellanea,  Miscellanea--pictorial works,  Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc,  Ag250 .m35 2014,  031.02022/2