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The bestselling classic has been revised and updated! A colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia, Visual Miscellaneum by David McCandless is a reference book like no other. It helps us make sense of our world by putting the data we are bombarded with every day—health findings, technological advances, cultural touch points, war statistics—into creative visual perspective. Like Show Me How by Lauren Smith and Schott's Miscellany, only more complete and satisfying, Visual Miscellaneum is a treat for the mind and the eye.

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The bestselling classic has been revised and updated! A colorful guide to the world's most consequential trivia, The Visual Miscellaneum now includes 18 all new graphs and 23 updated ones. It is a reference book like no other helping us make sense of our world by putting the data we are bombarded with every day—health findings, technological advances, cultural touch points, war statistics—into creative visual perspective. Using cutting edge graphs, charts, and illustrations, author David McCandless creatively visualizes the world’s most surprising relationships and compelling data.

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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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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0062236520
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper; Revised edition (October 23, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Flexibound ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780062236524
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062236524
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.75 x 10 inches

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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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Chad M

Instant knowledge about the topics and trends that are prominent in our world

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2021

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The world of data and its visual representations makes up a larger part of newspapers, magazines, and TV. Here, information about a wide range of topics is presented. There are one and two page summaries about global warming, carbon intensity, charities, health, cancer, geography, entertainment/movies, art, religion, and other subjects. Lots of the information are topics most readers have a general understanding of but also are topics about which one may not recall specific numbers. A very good two page visual summary is for the carbon dioxide cycle (p. 102/103). Cancer risks are another topic represented by a graphic made out of words (p. 154/155). Historical matters, including 20th Century Death causes is visually powerful, and highly informative (p. 120/121). At the UN and at the National Academy of Sciences people are still estimating what types of government programs are most beneficial for promoting the quality of life, reducing poverty, and avoiding the loss of life. This utilitarian debate changes as technology advances, yet we may see very similar charts about 21st survival and demographics as in the 20th century, given current trends about water shortages, droughts, war, poverty, and drug use. US economics are on trend towards being 20% of world GDP (compared with today's US GDP at 25% of the world economy). American charities will experience new limits in life-saving and life-improving missions. The era of Chinese charities may be a new trend, or they could be taking a more mercantile and finance-oriented road, exchanging goods and services usually only in return for raw materials and land rights.

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Kristy

Not the Data Visualization you are looking for...

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2020

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I bought this after watching a TedTalk by the author because I'm into data visualization (both professionally and for school). While this book has pretty graphics, and a bit of interest from a "what might graphs options look like beyond standard graphs" perspective, that's about it. On one page it just shows digital images of different types of facial hair that contain no other information except what dictators had it, years they were alive, and how many people killed. It would have been the exact same if they just had a picture of the person. Exact Same. Similarly, there is a page that has an icon for food, the name of the food item, and then below the icon is a number of calories. On one page is a bunch of colored circles that are supposed to represent the reasons for divorce - except none of the reasons are listed. Just a bunch of circles. So none of these really give me much "insightful" information.
Some graphs show insightful information (like the Snake Oil one) that was highlighted in the author's tedtalk. Some are outdated as expected, but still give you ideas on the possibilities on how to display information. But that's only if you know what to call some of these graphs, because you aren't going to see them in any typical data visualization package. Or maybe some graphic designer put them together - that seems more likely. So yea - pretty book. From a practical "how to else you can display your data" perspective not particularly helpful.

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caley

Cool Coffee Table Book (couple of pages appear to be missing writing)

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2009

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I just got and have been skimming through. Some of the visual charts are more interesting to read than others. Some charts are also easier to read/interpret than others. However, there are plenty to choose from.

Though says hardcover, the copy I have is actually a nice softcover. [Appears that Amazon has corrected this on the product page]

I have found a couple pages that it looks like the writing didn't print properly on. Most of the pages 60-65 (may be 66) are missing writing. I haven't noticed outside these pages.

Example of pg missing text:
pg 64, Excuses Us: Reasons for Divorce
The page in my book is a collection of colored circles. Only writing besides title and reference is that purple indicates the top excuse for women and pink is the top excuse for men.
If the text does appear in someone else's book, please comment. [I've heard from others that they are missing text on those pages from their copies also. Author has now put up a PDF with the missing pages. Password required (indicates it is a word from the book and where to find it).
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Overall, I am glad got the book. I'm looking forward to comments from friends and conversations that result from casual browsing.

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M. Prewitt

Awesome and entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2011

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If you like cool facts, fascinating statistics on myriad topics, trivia, and one-of-a-kind books, you should definitely check this out. This book is AMAZING. It is jammed full of interesting and colorful charts, graphs, info-graphics, and similar things. There are so many topics, and a lot of them are very interesting and relevant to everyday life and the things people like to talk about. The author hones in on the compelling data, not just junk facts. This is probably one of the best "fun" books I have ever purchased.

One word of warning: There are a few graphs dealing with adult themes, and at least one of them contains info-graphic style depictions of sexual organs. I didn't see anything raunchy; but if you are sensitive you should take note. As a conservative Christian, I didn't feel that the contents would be inappropriate for a high school or college library; but it might earn a PG rating.

There is so much to see and process in this book that I have not finished it yet. But the moment I took it out of the Amazon box, I could hardly put it down. Seriously, I stood there and perused the whole book on the spot.

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Jane

Great Book! But needed to be edited more properly...

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2011

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I love this book. The first time I saw it in a bookstore, I had to buy it.
It's so interesting that everyone who has come across the book in my house, liked it.
I love it so much, that I am giving away 2 copies (from Amazon) for Christmas. Like my review title,
this is an awesome book of its kind, but some pages needed to be more carefully edited.
Still, a great coffee table book to read again and again.

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Claudia Iacovella

Great addition to my design book library

Reviewed in Australia on March 4, 2018

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Creative and interesting ways of portraying data. A great addition to my design book library!

SteveC

and everyone loved it. I in fact never got a look ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2015

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I gave this as a Christmas present to a family with young teenage or nearly teenage boys, and everyone loved it. I in fact never got a look at it, because they were looking at it constantly. I will just have to trust the opinion of them and The Economist, whose positive review brought it to my attention.

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angusumire

見ているだけでも楽しく、発想が広がる

Reviewed in Japan on December 26, 2013

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インフォグラフィックの見本として見ているだけでも楽しめます。

色、文字、大きさなどの使い方も特徴的で分かりやすいので、普段の資料作りの参考にも役立ちます。

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Miss W Armstrong-Ellis

Brilliant book BUT don't buy if.......

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2016

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This is a brilliant book but don't buy it if you have a copy of The Information is Beautiful as they are the same book. I discovered this after ordering both ! ! !

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Mike Chen

Fail shopping

Reviewed in Japan on June 10, 2016

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No design concept is written. It showed something interesting, however I can not do anything with it. This book is just cost me but nothing returned. Fail shopping

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