Reviews

The Best American Infographics by

balletbookworm's review

4.0

I really love this series, but I feel like a few of the infographics selected were overly-hard to read. Not because they were interactive or large (which was an easy problem to since I could find them online) but because the graphs were unnecessarily complex/hard to interpret or had data the graphic didn't/couldn't explain (was missing a key, etc). On the excellent side, there is a beautiful 8-page foldout of a NatGeo infographic and a charming graphic of Popemobiles over the years. Of importance to bibliophiles, there's one that tracks literary road trips in the US and I'd encourage you to go to the webpage and use the interactive bits.

antlersantlers's review

4.0

I'm giving this a tentative 4-star rating because I really enjoyed what I read. Unfortunately I had to return it to the library so I didn't get to do a deep dive like I have in the past. I'll almost certainly check it out again in a month or two when I need something diverting.

dray's review

4.0

Something for nearly everyone. I have been studying the visual representation of data and this is a good source to see what works, some better than others. Several of the examples were inspiring enough to dive into source materials.

glitterandtwang's review

4.0

I have been slowly working my way through these for the last month or so. Really gorgeous representations of information - I just wish there was some way to collect infographics more along a particular theme, maybe? Or that so many of them weren't designed for web interaction, which renders the teeeeeeny tiny text in print versions nearly unreadable. Still, a good collection to browse for inspiration.