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

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The wording on the axis is also very misleading: “ahead of their time”. The author seems to imply a multidimensional but unidirectional linear progression from past to present, a conceptual mistake which puts someone like Nietzsche at the very bottom of the graph. But was Nietzsche “in line” with his time? Absolutely not, Nietzsche was revolutionary, scandalous even, for the society of his time. The author can only see --and depict- the distance between dogmatic 19th century Christianity and 21th century secular humanism, but has no grasp of the (also enormous) distance between 19th century Christianity and the neopagan Atheism that Nietzsche preached. As per our previous books, this one is a welter of beautiful facts & rigorous data, visualised in riotously colourful visualisations, charts & concept maps. 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. 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 Out

an estimate of the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy (Holy shit, there are potentially 6.9 trillion communicating civilizations in our universe) dog_excel <- read_excel("~/bestinshow.xlsx", sheet = "Best in show full sheet", range = cell_rows(3:91)) As usual, and purely for my own records, I shall end with some facts from the book that I found particularly compelling.Curious people. People who enjoy graphic art and data visualization, generally. Pretty much anyone, though- this is basically a coffee table book. Covering everything from dog breeds and movie plots to timelines of the far future and the complexity of relationships of the Middle East, this stunning book unveils the intricate, invisible and sometimes hilarious stories lurking in the data, information & knowledge surrounding us. Also published in German, French, Korean and Mandarin Chinese.

I wanted to replicate the figures as close as possible within R so to replicate the colors of the visualizations I scanned the book, saved the images, and then used this tool to get the html color codes. 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. A stunning visual journey through the most amazing, beautiful, and positive things happening in the modern world. Several of his visualizations just don't tell a logical story, e.g. several 'Battle of the Super Powers' charts that don't make any sense with regards to what is a positive or negative metric. Others are so horribly cluttered or complicated that they become illegible, defeating their own purpose. Some just seem rushed, not totally fleshed-out. But all in all this was a hugely enjoyable book. Each set of facts is presented so enticingly. It's like being in the very best of candy stores. The artwork is a delight, and the cleverness of McCandles's designs is extremely satisfying. You have to pause briefly at each new chart to learn the codes of the new format, but that is a pleasure as well. One has a lot of tiny "Ah ha" moments, as each new chart suddenly makes sense. This is not only a fascinating book, but a fun and playful book as well.

Now let’s Use the created function above to color dog silhouettes according to their category. # Herding color "#D59E7B" Here is an example: the act of declining or refusing food (whether it is okay, or very rude to do so.) labs(title = "Best in Show", subtitle = "The ultimate datadog", caption = "Source: bit.ly/KIB_BestDogs") + 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.