Information is beautiful

I’ve been busy moving out of my house, so I haven’t had much time to find anything interesting for you guys, let alone post it on the internet to be read. But I stumbled upon this site today that I think is great. I’ve seen a couple of the graphics from it over the last couple months, but I didn’t realize they were all made by the same guy.

David McCandless has created a website full of interesting, and artistic, visualizations of data. Things currently on the main page of the blog include “Left vs. Right” – which analyzes the US political dichotomy, “Chicks Rule!” which shows how women dominate visits to social networking sites, and “How Safe is the HPV vaccine?” Each post explores the data using unique methods of visualization, so that it is easy to understand, and pleasing to look at.

He’s even got a new book out called The Visual Miscellaneum which you can preorder from Harper Collins.

Give it a look: Information is Beautiful