The Best American Infographics 2013

The newest volume—fresh and visually arresting—in the acclaimed Best American series, showcasing the finest examples of data visualization from the past year.

The rise of infographics across virtually all print and electronic media—from a striking breakdown of classic cocktails to a graphic tracking 200 influential moments that changed the world to visually arresting depictions of Twitter traffic—reveals patterns in our lives and our world in fresh and surprising ways. In the era of big data, where information moves faster than ever, infographics provide us with quick, often influential bursts of art and knowledge—on the environment, politics, social issues, health, sports, arts and culture, and more—to digest, to tweet, to share, to go viral.

The Best American Infographics captures the finest examples from the past year, including the ten best interactive infographics, of this mesmerizing new way of seeing and understanding our world.

Adam G. Animation

[AmoebaLasVegas]

Does anyone else see the irony of the best infographics (some of them interactive) being presented in book form?

[Rustygulley-rr]

Very cool. Wish they'd used music from the editor, David Byrne. Gentlemen, the essential form for storing information is a book. This will be around decades after your hard drives are in a land fill polluting the ground water. Your convenience has a hidden price. Support independent booksellers if you care about books like this, or any book that isn't written by James Patterson.

[MissMX]

The best infrographics to a soundtrack of the most unimaginative four measures of bland muzak?

[GQDaley]

Wow, arresting! Super easy buy on Amazon

[JebHarrisonVI]

Now playing on a coffee table near you...right @Gerald Casey?

[vld]

Had two books today on order yesterday - "The Best American Short Stories 2013" and "The Best American Essays 2013". Glad Amazon did not ship them yet. Cancelled after seeing opinion censorship here from hmhbooks, as I now have little trust those reviews which are positive are in any way authentic.

[vld]

Wow, way to go, PR people. Deleting polite comments you do not like, don't you?

[eKoush]

i love this, but i dont like how even in this video they try to sell you their views of good and bad, while providing ou with the statistic.

how many people just thought:
"so much gun owner's in the US? oh no! we have to do something about this!"
even though the statistic on itself makes no argument against it, at all. or the gun shot and the red line....