The Visual Miscellaneum - A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia

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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"Dangerous...to have on your desk if you have other work to get done....[T]he visuals will draw you in, and the sharpness of the questions some of them attempt to answer-and the efficiency with which they can communicate complex comparisons in a single page-will keep you hooked." Omnivoracious

Product details

• Authors: David McCandless
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2009
• EAN: 9780061748363
• ISBN: 978-0-06-174836-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 195 mm x 255 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Bildung : Lexikon, Nachschlagewerk, Information visualization, Trivia and quiz questions, Information technology: general topics, Encyclopaedias and reference works, Miscellanies and compendia, REFERENCE: General, REFERENCE: Questions & Answers, REFERENCE: Trivia, DESIGN: Graphic Arts / General, REFERENCE: Curiosities & Wonders, Combinatorics and graph theory, COMPUTERS: Information Technology, Data capture and analysis, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Statistics, MATHEMATICS: Graphic Methods, COMPUTERS: Data Science / Data Visualization