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Knowledge Is Beautiful: Impossible Ideas, Invisible Patterns, Hidden Connections--Visualized Flexibound – October 21, 2014
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In this sequel to the bestselling book The Visual Miscellaneum, author David McCandless uses stunning and unique visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works.
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.
Knowledge is Beautiful is a fascinating spin through the world of visualized data, all of it bearing the hallmark of David McCandless’s boundary-breaking, signature style. The captivating follow-up to the bestseller The Visual Miscellaneum, Knowledge is Beautiful offers a deeper, more ranging look at the world and its history, with more connectivity between the pages, a greater exploration of causes and consequences, and a more inclusive global outlook. With a portion of its content crowd-sourced from McCandless’s international following, Knowledge is Beautiful achieves a revolutionary and democratic look at the key issues from questions on history and politics, the facts of science, streams of literature, and much more.
This is a project that will truly push the boundaries of books everywhere, providing insights into our world in a way never seen before.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper
- Publication dateOctober 21, 2014
- Dimensions7.5 x 0.87 x 9.75 inches
- ISBN-100062188224
- ISBN-13978-0062188229
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“An inventive follow-up to 2009’s cult hit “Information Is Beautiful.”...Mr. McCandless has a gift for revealing hidden structures, patterns and connections, and “Knowledge is Beautiful” is thought-provoking as well as startlingly attractive.” — Wall Street Journal
“From the amount the potential tax revenue from legalizing drugs worldwide to disappearing seed varieties, data journalist David McCandless transforms abstract information into engaging visuals. His book Knowledge Is Beautiful...has his newest graphics for making sometimes imperceptible connections accessible.” — HYPERALLERGIC
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Impossible ideas, invisible patterns, hidden connections—visualized
Deepen your understanding of the world with these mind-blowing infographics from the bestselling author of The Visual Miscellaneum
About the Author
David McCandless is an award-winning writer and journalist. His work has appeared in over 30 magazines in the UK and the US and all over the web. He currently works as creative consultant for Orange and the BBC and writes about the Internet, underground culture and ‘anything interesting' for Wired and The Guardian.
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- Publisher : Harper; Illustrated edition (October 21, 2014)
- Language : English
- Flexibound : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062188224
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062188229
- Item Weight : 0.067 ounces
- Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.87 x 9.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #350,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #339 in Trivia & Fun Facts (Books)
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- #776 in Pop Culture Art
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About the author

I'm a London-based author, data-journalist and information designer, working across print, advertising, TV and web. My book and blog Information Is Beautiful is dedicated to visualising ideas, issues, knowledge and data. All powered by my passion for discovering new patterns and stories in the seas of data swamping and surrounding us.
My information design work has appeared in hundreds of publications internationally and online including The Guardian, Wired, and the BBC. I’ve also worked on visualisation projects for Google, Apple, Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I've had pieces exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at Tate Britain.
Love science. Journalism. Truth and beauty. The story beneath the story. And all things strange and interesting.
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http://www.informationisbeautiful.net
http://www.davidmccandless.com
http://www.twitter.com/mccandelish
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I ordered the print version and find the font small and hard to read in some graphics, it should definitely be a printed in a larger format. The book is so interesting it's worth the aggravation of having to use a magnifying glass here and there. I've read some complaints from the electronic version, I don't think this book is suitable for that type of format and the publishers should have never released one ( the back lash has been tremendous)
Overall, the book is 5 stars.
Presentation is 4 (a few charts leave you wondering what question the data are meant to answer or yearning for details beyond a composite score. Also, the absence of any conclusions is irritating, albeit probably not the author's intent).
The physical format is 1 star. Spiral binding would be far superior where margins are not provided.
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Reviewed in Mexico on August 19, 2022
Se você já entende do assunto é uma excelente fonte de inspiração.
Visually the book is quite nice, good quality printing, but “knowledge” for these representations is just an artsy term. Nice to look at, but not very helpful.
Some of the people I work with that deal with data hadn’t heard of a tree map and thought it was pretty cool. Especially as you can make them in Excel.











