The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia by David McCandless

by David McCandless

Paperback

Published January 1, 1800

About the author

McCandless is the founder of the visual blog Information Is Beautiful. Early explorations into the synergy between data visualisation and his work as a journalist led to the development of Information Is Beautiful and the subsequent publication of his book of the same name (titled A Visual Miscellaneum in the United States).

McCandless began his career writing for cult video game magazines such as Your Sinclair and PC Zone in the late 1980s and 1990s before moving on to work for The Guardian and Wired magazine. Since the publication of Information Is Beautiful in 2009, his information design work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Wired, and Die Zeit, and has also been showcased at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Wellcome Trust gallery in London, and at the Tate Britain. His second book, Knowledge Is Beautiful, was published in 2014.

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Reviews

[Pia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was fun and interesting! Some of the graphs and infographics were gorgeous and heightened the information it was presenting, though others were confusing - I wished more images were just presented in bar graphs. I think readers would get the most out of it if they spend some time evaluating the effectiveness of how the content is displayed and critically thinking about the utility, source, and context of the underlying data itself.