The Visual Miscellaneum is a unique, groundbreaking look at the modern information age, helping readers make sense of the countless statistics and random facts that constantly bombard us. Using cutting edge graphs, charts, and illustrations, David McCandless creatively visualizes the world's surprising relationships and compelling data, covering everything from the most pleasurable guilty pleasures to how long it takes different condiments to spoil to world maps of Internet search terms.

本书从跨学科的视角探索了知识可视化的历史进程及其最新进展。从无形学院和库恩竞争范式，到运用可视化技术绘制知识结构图谱，再到科学发展进程中的各种兴盛与衰落。通过大量色彩丰富的图片，深入浅出地将绘制科学知识图谱的原理、方法及技术娓娓道来。 本书既涉及到简单易学的可视化步骤和模型，也有应用于实际的具体案例分析，是一本对于研究者和实践者都很有价值的参考书，可供科学政策分析机构、投资机构、咨询公司管理人员、技术人员和高校相关专业师生阅读参考。

In this sequel to the bestselling book The Visual Miscellaneum, author David McCandless uses stunning and unique visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works. Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded with information, from television, from newspapers, from the Internet, we’re steeped in it. We need a way to relate to it. Enter David McCandless and his stunning infographics, simple, elegant ways to interact with information too complex or abstract to grasp any way but visually. McCandless creates visually stunning displays that blend the facts with their connections, contexts, and relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining, and beautiful. And his genius is as much in finding fresh ways to provocatively combine datasets as it is in finding new ways to show the results. Knowledge is Beautiful is a fascinating spin through the world of visualized data, all of it bearing the hallmark of David McCandless’s boundary-breaking, signature style. The captivating follow-up to the bestseller The Visual Miscellaneum, Knowledge is Beautiful offers a deeper, more ranging look at the world and its history, with more connectivity between the pages, a greater exploration of causes and consequences, and a more inclusive global outlook. With a portion of its content crowd-sourced from McCandless’s international following, Knowledge is Beautiful achieves a revolutionary and democratic look at the key issues from questions on history and politics, the facts of science, streams of literature, and much more. This is a project that will truly push the boundaries of books everywhere, providing insights into our world in a way never seen before.

Here, the news graphics director at "The Wall Street Journal" gives a step-by-step guide to executing clear and concise graphics for everyone from the average PowerPoint user to the sophisticated professional, showing how to use different techniques to convey messages eloquently and effectively.

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