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

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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. Curious people. People who enjoy graphic art and data visualization, generally. Pretty much anyone, though- this is basically a coffee table book. Ich liebe Informationen, Statistiken, zusammengetragene Daten, optisch ansprechende Gestaltungen, gelungene Kombinationen aus Form und Farbe - und weitere derartige Dinge. Viele der abgebildeten Info-Grafiken waren mir bereits aus dem Netz bekannt, aber trotzdem konnte ich nicht anders als die gebundene Ausgabe dieses Buches zu kaufen. Since popularity scores range from 1 to 140 with 1 being the most popular we will need to reverse the y-axis with scale_y_reverse(). needs(ggplot2,

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. 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. What kind of study is it? eg pilot study/clinical trial RCT/review article/case control/observational...epidermiological...population/case study/meta-analysis/other. Health wise, or creativity-wise, if you want a more cheerful list of possibilities you will have to revert to the younger ages....) 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.a chart of the different kinds of power in use around the world (the United States is arguably a kleptocracy, which is "corrupt rule by thieves for personal power and wealth") 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. 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.

Now let’s Use the created function above to color dog silhouettes according to their category. # Herding color "#D59E7B"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. As per our previous books, this one is a welter of beautiful facts & rigorous data, visualised in riotously colourful visualisations, charts & concept maps. We 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! 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?

Best in Show is a scatter-plot of dog silhouettes, color-coded based on the category of dog, sized accordingly, and pointing either left-or-right, depending on their intelligence. 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. Let’s write a function that can be given three arguments: 1) df a data frame, 2) category the type of dog it is, 3) color a specific color for each category.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. I really enjoyed looking through this book of trivia and data visuals and would highly recommend it to others. 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 annotations Here is an example: the act of declining or refusing food (whether it is okay, or very rude to do so.) 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: