Information is beautiful / David McCandless.
By: McCandless, David [author]
Publisher: London : Collins, 2012Edition: New edDescription: 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0019584521ISBN: 9780007492893 Subject(s): Information visualization | Statistics -- Charts, diagrams, etc | Statistics -- Graphic methods | Curiosities and wonders | General | Encyclopaedias & reference works | Gift books | General encyclopaedias | History of art | Graphic design | Media studies | Information visualization | Trivia & quiz question books | Popular cultureDDC classification: 032.02 LOC classification: AE5 | .M3 2012Summary: Facts, statistics, issues, theories, relationships, numbers, words - there is just too much information in the world. We need a brand new way to take it all inches 'Information is Beautiful' transforms the ideas surrounding and swamping us into graphs and maps that anyone can follow at a single glance. 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.
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| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | ONLINE | 032.02 MCC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 115099 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Previous edition: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Facts, statistics, issues, theories, relationships, numbers, words - there is just too much information in the world. We need a brand new way to take it all inches 'Information is Beautiful' transforms the ideas surrounding and swamping us into graphs and maps that anyone can follow at a single glance. 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.
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