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And if they don’t yet, they very much should. Get with the agenda… you… you web 1.0 people you.

Click below to see my 5 favourite infographics, or infographic creators of all time.

David McCandless, of Information is Beautiful

Check out this baby, which sort of craps all over the green movement (but in a beautiful way):



and the graphics on this page which illustrate that the best month in which to fly (if you don’t want to die) is May, and that North America is the world’s capital for fatal air accidents with 2613 accidents since 1942.

Matthew Inman, of The Oatmeal

He created this, which should fill you with a worldly knowledge of, and insatiable desire for, coffee!:












Now, who next you ask?

Randall Munroe, of XKCD

Who created this visual (which I blogged about a few weeks go, sorry), bootiful datalicious depiction of The Lord of the Rings (and a few other films):


The green stuff is quite popular, so here’s another:

Surface area required to Solar Power the world, from Land Art Generator

Click and make it big buddies.
I love it when great graphics come from independent sources rather than the old and trusted sources. Great link bait too.


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And the big question:

Is the World Getting Better or Worse?

Again, click it to view it nice and big.
I love a good collection of stats. Sometimes you just can’t answer a question or make a point with one iconographic visualisation – the below is a pretty good shot at answering one question, multi-approach style.


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If you like these, you should subscribe to The Guardian’s Data blog. It’s neato.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 10:52 pm and is filed under Art, Social Media.