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Information is Beautiful
Information is Beautiful | David McCandless
7 posts | 2 read | 8 to read
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.
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JLaurenceCohen
The Visual Miscellaneum | David McCandless

This is one of my favorite coffee table books. It's full of fascinating infographics and great conversation-starters.

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MommyOfTwo
Information is Beautiful | David McCandless
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IT, I read it years ago, I know it's over 1000 pages
Big or small as long as it has a good story to keep me interested
Coffee needs to have cream in it ☕️(l like flavored coffees too)
No to tea
I like to read on the deck or in bed
I don't remember a specific book that got me started but I remember reading Little Woman when I was younger and still like it.

Jenni_Capps ♥️♥️♥️ 7y
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LibrarianJen
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"But can a book with the minimum of text, crammed with diagrams, maps and charts, still be exciting and readable? Can it still be fun? Can you make jokes in graphs? Are you even allowed to?"

A coworker brought this in today. I'm going to have to get my hands on a copy for myself!

angrylilasian Oooo! I love this kind of book! 8y
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Eyelit
The Visual Miscellaneum | David McCandless
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It was a pretty good month. Here's to November being just as good (if not better!) 😃 #monthlystats #bookstats #stats

BookishFeminist 33 books! Holy sh*t! 😳 8y
rockpools Wow!!! 8y
Cinfhen Awesome🙌🏻 8y
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I-read-and-eat Wow those are amazing stats! 8y
WhatDeeReads Whew, that is so impressive. That's literally a book everyday! 8y
rachellayown Dang! That's some incredible reading! 8y
KarenUK Wow! 8y
Bookzombie That's great! Wow! 8y
SharonGoforth 👏👏👏👏Awesome! 8y
Faibka Wow! Awesome! 8y
GlitteryOtters Oh WOW! You are the winner! 🙌✨⭐️️🏆🏆🏆 8y
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Eyelit
The Visual Miscellaneum | David McCandless
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C'mon Canada! You can't possibly be that boring. How is that even a thing? 😂 Also, oddly not surprised that US is #1 for serial killers.

Hooked_on_books What a proud moment for the US 8y
LindsayReads Would you rather we swapped out our serial killers? 😉 8y
TheLibrarian 😂😂😂 8y
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mllemay I'll take a fruit-juice drinker over a serial killer any day 😂😂😂 8y
Reagan I'm Canadian. I guess I do love juice 😐😐 8y
TheWordJar I don't know...I'm looking at you over there, Portugal, and your cork! (Wishing to be like Iceland!) 8y
Sarahr875 I need to move to Canada. 8y
Shemac77 I'm Canadian. If by juice they mean wine then yes. 8y
Shemac77 Also, all Americans are always welcome in Canada....except serial killers and Donald Trump. 8y
BeththeBookDragon What do you suppose 'mammal species' means? 8y
Jessicav Today the news out of Canada is that we drink a lot of real fruit juice. The news out of America is that serial killers are common and they're about to elect a maniac to their highest office. Because you can't not have Trump in your news cycle. I'll take my juice, and happily! 8y
Scurvygirl USA! USA! USA! 🔪🔪🔪 8y
LeahBergen I'm sorry about all the juice drinking 🇨🇦 8y
LauraJ Umm, anyone know a Canadian who would like a green card wife? Trying to plan ahead in case this election goes horribly wr. 8y
GlitteryOtters Oh man, I love only an hour away from Canada and now I want to move there even more...I love juice! 8y
GlitteryOtters @LeahBergen never be sorry about drinking juice 😂 I wonder if there is any extra space to add a juice drinking vegan who is half Canadian...? Both sides of my dad's family came from PEI, Nova Scotia & Quebec. I think I need to return to the fatherland...😂😂 8y
NCNY Oh, Canada..... 8y
Hornsby78 😯😯😯 We are #1 in serial killers?!?!? WHAT IN THE WRONG ARE WE DOING TO MAKE THIS MANY HOMICIDAL PEOPLE?!??! 8y
Bette 😂😂😂 8y
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Eyelit
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#tbrtuesday #libraryhaul and a little more #atx #librarylove I can always count on APL to have what I'm looking for (or acquire it if I can't find it)... Plus a few months ago when they had this customer appreciation week they gifted me with this tote. 😍

Grrlbrarian Nice to know Austin has great libraries as well as bookstores! Truly a bookish town 👍 8y
jpmcwisemorgan Oh man, I didn't know they gave out totes. I missed it! 8y
Carol Rad!! 8y
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