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anitaashland's review
4.0
I love data visualization and telling stories using visuals and as few words as possible. If you are into data viz and design too, then it will be well worth your time to page through this. I enjoyed it not so much for the content of the infographics but for the design of them.
balletbookworm's review
5.0
Pretty pretty data. Somehow, I didn't get this read last year so am rectifying that - the NatGeo six-page foldout of the Duomo in Florence is the worth the book purchase all on its own.
antlersantlers's review
4.0
I definitely enjoyed this one more than previous years' offerings. I almost feel like this selection was a bit more cognizant of presentation bias, or maybe it was just that there weren't any that made me mad about a skewed presentation.
Some favorites:
-Spurious Correlations, which showed correlation and obvious lack of causation between things like the "age of Miss America" and "Murders by steam, hot vapors, and hot objects."
-Deaths in day care, which leaned into presentation bias to humanize the 60 tragic deaths of children while in daycare in the state of VA.
-Letters in a word, showing where letters tend to appear in words. W's appear near the front, D's towards the end.
-Women of ISIS, dissecting tweets of a young European Muslim woman who left her family to go to Syria.
-Your life, in weeks, which breaks down an average american life into weeks of the year and age. It is great but bummed me out to see how far along
Some favorites:
-Spurious Correlations, which showed correlation and obvious lack of causation between things like the "age of Miss America" and "Murders by steam, hot vapors, and hot objects."
-Deaths in day care, which leaned into presentation bias to humanize the 60 tragic deaths of children while in daycare in the state of VA.
-Letters in a word, showing where letters tend to appear in words. W's appear near the front, D's towards the end.
-Women of ISIS, dissecting tweets of a young European Muslim woman who left her family to go to Syria.
-Your life, in weeks, which breaks down an average american life into weeks of the year and age. It is great but bummed me out to see how far along
audz100's review against another edition
5.0
I might be slightly biased, what with my love of infographics and all things randomly educational, but this was great.
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