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Knowledge Is Beautiful: Impossible Ideas, Invisible Patterns, Hidden Connections - Visualized

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dog_excel <- read_excel("~/bestinshow.xlsx", sheet = "Best in show full sheet", range = cell_rows(3:91)) In this mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works. What David McCandless has done is genius… dry data is transformed into small pieces of pop art that engage so much you end up learning more, without realising it. The ideal encyclopaedia for the information age.' Red Handed

As usual, and purely for my own records, I shall end with some facts from the book that I found particularly compelling. Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded with information, from television, from newspapers, from the Internet, we’re steeped in it. We need a way to relate to it. Enter David McCandless and his stunning infographics, simple, elegant ways to interact with information too complex or abstract to grasp any way but visually. McCandless creates visually stunning displays that blend the facts with their connections, contexts, and relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining, and beautiful. And his genius is as much in finding fresh ways to provocatively combine datasets as it is in finding new ways to show the results.Die meisten der gesammelten Daten beziehen sich auf die USA. Man findet natürlich auch globale Informationen, oft wird die EU als gesamtes betrachtet und hin und wieder bezieht man sich auch direkt auf Deutschland. Aber grundsätzlich ist das alles aus der Sicht eines Amerikaners geschrieben. Das merkt man einfach und ist hierzulande vielleicht ein berechtigter Kritikpunkt - aber ich wusste das bereits vor dem Kauf, daher ist das kein Grund einen Stern abzuziehen. Curious people. People who enjoy graphic art and data visualization, generally. Pretty much anyone, though- this is basically a coffee table book.

In this intriguing book, David McCandless presents a cavalcade of compelling and colourful graphics, each one innovative in its attempt to offer a new perspective on some of our most pervasive twenty-first century obsessions” – Time OutWe are living in the Information Age, in which we are constantly bombarded with data – on television, in print and online. How can we relate to this mind-numbing overload? Enter David McCandless and his amazing infographics: simple, elegant ways to understand information too complex or abstract to grasp any way but visually. In his unique signature style, he creates dazzling displays that blend facts with their connections, contexts and relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining – and beautiful. The book is an excellent resource for those who like these sorts of exercises as every single visualization in the book is paired with an online dataset to explore at your interest!!!. I never knew how rich the datasets were until I tried to recreate my first visualization, “ Best in Show”. The dataset for Best in Show alone, is an excel file with eight sheets!

Da ich mich also sehr für sowas begeistern kann möchte ich nicht lange erwähnen wie großartig das alles visualisiert wurde (...mit Quellenverweis und Weblinks, zur ausführlicheren Recherche, ...), sondern auf die eher negativen Sachen eingehen: There are fascinating comparisons on numerous subjects between the four largest economic powerhouses of the world, the USA, Europe, China and India, with clear graphics on the subject being studied and a winner for each of the categories. As with the first book, he has taken the details of his subjects and made them understandable and interesting to look at. Indeed the number of dots is just an arbitrary score the author gives to his poor subjects. There is a “justification” and a source, both somewhat arbitrary. There’s a scoring system which attempts to legitmize the metric but falls short in doing so (for instance, one criteria is “supported gay rights”...does that even mean anything to a Greek who 1) didn’t have a concept of “rights” and 2) didn’t have a social taboo on homosexuality?). There is also a disclaimer: “scales are all RELATIVE TO THE MODERN WORLD & not the genius's historical context”. This clearly skews the results in favor of more recent geniuses as it was easier to be closer to modern sensibilities in 1965 than in the first century AD. Yet this is not reflected in the unfortunate chart which depicts Paul as a proto-fascist compared to the forward-thinking Carl Sagan. The final step is to add text annotations underneath the dog breeds. Since I subset dog_df by intelligence if I try to annotate with geom_text() it will only annotate part of the data. We will need to the annotate() function instea since geome are not mapped from variables of a data frame, but are instead passed in as vectors. # Add annotationsHere is an example: the act of declining or refusing food (whether it is okay, or very rude to do so.) It’s a bit of an evolution beyond my previous book, Information is Beautiful (published as The Visual Miscellaneum in the US). A bit denser, more detailed, more comprehensive, connected. Overall, going a bit deeper – much like knowledge in fact. What’s inside? Published by HarperCollins this autumn, it contains exactly 196 new hand-crafted infographics and visualisations, free-ranging across many subjects areas. Science, power, money, health, space, art, thought and dogs. Yes, dogs.

Taking infographics to the next level, his new book Knowledge is Beautiful is an endlessly fascinating spin through the world of visualized data, which offers a deeper, more wide-ranging look at the world and its history. Covering everything from dog breeds and movie plots to the origins of life and a timeline of the far future, this stunning book is guaranteed to enrich your understanding of the world. I tried, I really tried to focus on the data visualizations and not on the not-so-subtle progressive politics this book proudly (yet dorkly) upholds. Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded with information, from television, from newspapers, from the Internet, we're steeped in it. We need a way to relate to it. Enter David McCandless and his stunning infographics, simple, elegant ways to interact with information too complex or abstract to grasp any way but visually. McCandless creates visually stunning displays that blend the facts with their connections, contexts, and relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining, and beautiful. And his genius is as much in finding fresh ways to provocatively combine datasets as it is in finding new ways to show the results. What kind of study is it? eg pilot study/clinical trial RCT/review article/case control/observational...epidermiological...population/case study/meta-analysis/other. McCandless is a British journalist who specializes in "data viz," which means he takes large amounts of information and figures out how to design it in a meaningful way. The resulting artwork often makes the data more compelling and easier to comprehend.Recently, I was trying to think of some fun data visualization projects and decided to choose a couple from the book that could be recreated as close to possible in R.

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