The Best American Infographics 2015

The Best American Infographics 2015

<DIV><DIV>Praise for <I>The Best American Infographics </I><BR />  <BR />  €œRepresent[s] the full spectrum of the genre€"from authoritative to playful.€€"<I>Scientific American</I><BR />  <BR /> €œNot only is it a thing of beauty, it€s also a good read, with thoughtful explanations of each winning graphic.€€"<I>Nature</I><BR />  <BR />  €œInformation, in its raw form, can overwhelm us. Finding the visual form of data can simplify this deluge into pearls of understanding.€ €"Kim Rees, Periscopic<BR />  <BR />  <B>The most creative and effective data visualizations from the past year, edited by <I>Brain Pickings</I> creator Maria Popova</B><BR />  <BR /> The rise of infographics across nearly all print and electronic media€"from a graphic illuminating the tweets of the women of Isis to a memorable depiction of the national geography of beer€"reveals patterns in our lives and the world in often startling ways. <I>The Best American Infographics 2015</I> showcases visualizations from the worlds of politics, social issues, health, sports, arts and culture, and more. From an elegant graphic comparison of first sentences in classic novels to a startling illustration of the world€s deadliest animals, €œYou€ll come away with more than your share of . . . mind-bending moments€"and a wide-ranging view of what infographics can do€ (<I>Harvard Business Review</I>).<BR /> €œThis is what information design does at its best €“ it gives pause, makes visible the unsuspected yet significant invisibilia of life, and by astonishing us into mobilization, it catapults us toward one of the greatest feats of human courage: the act of changing one€s mind.€€"from the Introduction by Maria Popova<BR /><BR /> Guest introducer MARIA POPOVA is the one-woman curation machine behind <I>Brain Pickings,</I> a cross-disciplinary blog showcasing content that makes people smarter. She has more than half a million monthly readers and over 480,000 Twitter followers. Popova is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow and has written for the <I>New York Times</I>, <I>Atlantic</I>, <I>Wired UK</I>, <I>GOOD</I> <I>Magazine,</I> <I>The Huffington Post,</I> and the Nieman Journalism Lab.<BR />  <BR /> Series editor GARETH COOK is a Pulitzer Prize€“winning journalist, a contributor to the <I>New York Times Magazine</I>, and the editor of <I>Mind Matters, Scientific American</I>€s neuroscience blog.  He helped invent the <I>Boston Globe</I>€s Sunday Ideas section and served as its editor from 2007 to 2011. His work has also appeared in NewYorker.com, <I>WIRED, Scientific American,</I> and <I>The Best American Science and Nature Writing. </I></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR />