Once again, an "infographic" at InformationIsBeautiful.net contributes very little beyond the underlying prose it's based on (in this case a Google spreadsheet, which is actually easier to read).
Unfortunately, InformationIsBeautiful.net basically exists to be an advertisement for the author's book, The Visual Miscellaneum. Which is a very pretty book--I own it--but not really full of informative infographics. There's some original content in the blog, but far too much of it is reposts of graphics from the book.
For a better (or at least more varied) selection of infographics I like:
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Once again, an "infographic" at InformationIsBeautiful.net contributes very little beyond the underlying prose it's based on (in this case a Google spreadsheet, which is actually easier to read).
Unfortunately, InformationIsBeautiful.net basically exists to be an advertisement for the author's book, The Visual Miscellaneum. Which is a very pretty book--I own it--but not really full of informative infographics. There's some original content in the blog, but far too much of it is reposts of graphics from the book.
For a better (or at least more varied) selection of infographics I like:
* Chart Porn (http://chartporn.org/)
* Flowing Data (http://flowingdata.com/) which also covers datavis software
* Information Aesthetics (http://infosthetics.com/)
* We Love DataVis (http://datavis.tumblr.com/)
(edit: formatting)