信息之美
Information is Beautiful
David McCandless · 初版 2010 年
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“一部揭示世界真实运转机制的视觉指南。每一天、每一小时、每一分钟，我们都承受着来自电视、报纸、互联网的海量信息轰炸；我们深陷其中，甚至迷失其中。我们需要一种与信息建立联系的新方式，去领略信息本身所蕴含的美感与乐趣。这里没有枯燥的事实、理论或统计数据。相反，Information is Beautiful 呈现了令人惊叹的视觉化信息，将事实与其背景脉络、内在关联融为一体——使信息变得富有意义、引人入胜且优美动人。这
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这让我想起了《信息之美》（Information is Beautiful）这本书的封面。它有一个轮盘，把文化和联想对应起来，并用相匹配的颜色填满空间。http://ceslava.com/blog/color-culturas-infografa/ 我还找到了这个带有……的电子表格
This reminds me of the cover of the book Information is Beautiful. It has a wheel that plots cultures vs. associations and fills in the spaces with the colors that go with them. http://ceslava.com/blog/color-culturas-infografa/ I also found this spreadsheet with the…
根据《信息之美》（Information Is Beautiful，麦坎德利斯，2009）的数据，4650亿美元足够发展中国家的每一个孩子吃饱穿暖并接受五年教育。
According to Information Is Beautiful (McCandless, 2009), $465B is enough to feed and educate every child in the developing world for five years.
……可视化图表，在这一新版中进行了全面修订、重新计算和重新构想。我们被信息淹没了——来自手机、电视、电脑和报纸。这一新版的《信息之美》（Information is Beautiful）进行了彻底修订，带来了20多处更新和20个全新的可视化图表。它通过一种将事实与相互关联、背景语境……融合在一起的全新数据可视化方式，为人们提供了一处避开信息洪流的庇护所。
…visualisations, thoroughly revised, recalculated and reimagined for this new edition. We are overwhelmed by information – from our phones, our televisions, our computers, our newspapers. This new edition of Information is Beautiful has been revised throughout with over 20 updates and 20 new visualisations. It offers shelter from the flood by visualising data in a new way that blends facts with their connections, their context and…