- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Collins Design; 1 edition (10 Nov 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0061748366
- ISBN-13: 978-0061748363
- Product Dimensions: 25.5 x 19.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 120,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Visual Miscellaneum is a unique, groundbreaking look at the modern information age, helping readers make sense of the countless statistics and random facts that constantly bombard us. Using cutting edge graphs, charts, and illustrations, David McCandless creatively visualizes the world's surprising relationships and compelling data, covering everything from the most pleasurable guilty pleasures to how long it takes different condiments to spoil to world maps of Internet search terms.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a brilliant book.
Just a quick note, "Information is Beautiful" is the UK edition, and "The Visual Miscellaneum" is the US edition. Source: The information is beautiful website (.net)
Kind regards,
David
Just a quick note, "Information is Beautiful" is the UK edition, and "The Visual Miscellaneum" is the US edition. Source: The information is beautiful website (.net)
Kind regards,
David
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Probably the best book I have seen for inspiration on how to display sometimes complex information visually, and on how to quickly present comparative data to the layman in a way that provokes insight and changes opinions.
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60 of 62 people found the following review helpful
Needs an editor
24 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback
I love this book - creative and thought provoking - Thank you.
A few of the pages alone are worth the price of the book - political left vs political right, creationism vs evolutionism, nature vs nurture. Access to the web site for updates is a great idea.
Suggestion for author's consideration: please clean up the errors and omissions. This should be a five star book. For example: the visually beautiful and useful index excludes several pages of the book; Pages 60 to 65 are missing a number of details. As a result, the pages make no sense.
My advice to the reader - wait for a revised edition or hope that someone replaces the printer.
A few of the pages alone are worth the price of the book - political left vs political right, creationism vs evolutionism, nature vs nurture. Access to the web site for updates is a great idea.
Suggestion for author's consideration: please clean up the errors and omissions. This should be a five star book. For example: the visually beautiful and useful index excludes several pages of the book; Pages 60 to 65 are missing a number of details. As a result, the pages make no sense.
My advice to the reader - wait for a revised edition or hope that someone replaces the printer.
139 of 155 people found the following review helpful
Full of examples on how NOT to present information.
25 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback
This book's charts are very pretty to look at, but the quantative approach in many of them was so bad and so confusing that for the first 50 pages I thought I was reading a spoof.
On page 10, an area representing $21B is larger than one representing $27B, and $60B looks to be about half of $230B. On pages 60 - 65 the charts have no labels whatsoever, and so there's literally no way to tell what they're trying to say: it's just six pages of colorful polygons. You'll find these kinds of blunders on almost every page; I've just chosen a few early examples.
I know it seems like I'm nit-picking, but for a book claiming in its subtitle to be some kind of statistical "guide," such flaws are fatal. If you're at all interested in examples of beautifully presented and accurate information, please read Beautiful Evidence or The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition instead.
On page 10, an area representing $21B is larger than one representing $27B, and $60B looks to be about half of $230B. On pages 60 - 65 the charts have no labels whatsoever, and so there's literally no way to tell what they're trying to say: it's just six pages of colorful polygons. You'll find these kinds of blunders on almost every page; I've just chosen a few early examples.
I know it seems like I'm nit-picking, but for a book claiming in its subtitle to be some kind of statistical "guide," such flaws are fatal. If you're at all interested in examples of beautifully presented and accurate information, please read Beautiful Evidence or The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition instead.
44 of 50 people found the following review helpful
Beautiful, but...
2 Dec 2009
Format:Paperback
As pointed out in other reviews and in comments on the Website [...], there are mistakes in this book that make you question the validity of many of the graphs. There are incorrect figures and scaling errors. For example, why does an area representing $60B look about half as large as one for $230B?
I want to make it very clear that the approach to visualize information this way is excellent, but the author seems to have given priority to artistic expression rather than accuracy.
Also, there are labels missing on several pages, due to a technical fault. ([...]) I would wait for a new edition with corrections.
I want to make it very clear that the approach to visualize information this way is excellent, but the author seems to have given priority to artistic expression rather than accuracy.
Also, there are labels missing on several pages, due to a technical fault. ([...]) I would wait for a new edition with corrections.
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