These books would be wonderful classroom tools – the visual interconnectivity of subjects like literature, sports and music with visual representation (art and design) and mathematical information, statistics and numeracy is just brilliant and can really be eye opening to children and adults alike. I really think this series is very interesting and such a great way to introduce a different, very visual way of looking at information. I just felt like I needed more information. And then there were a few that had me wanting more information about the infographic and it’s information, like the page which featured a graphic focussed on the ethnic diversity and activities of various global gangs: the mafia, the yakuza and the sinaloa cartel, which led me to wondering why they chose these three gangs and not others, and why this information and not what kinds of guns they use or who they target, what they do…. While Sports and Literature, Film and Music all have specific subjects, Life, the Universe and Everything features about twelve infographics about space (which is a lot in a book with only 80 pages), a comparison of the countries of the world’s chocolate consumption (France won!), a graphic about global vacuuming habits, how long it would take you to fall from various tall structures etc… etc… Among the variety were also some very familiar graphs, like an infographic comparing brain sizes from the smallest to largest living creatures and certainly some of the space graphics we’ve all seen before and weren’t incredibly ground breaking. I found the selection of information presented entirely unfocused, which is perhaps just a flaw in the concept behind this particular book. Where I loved the literature edition and was mystified by the sports infographics, this general interest book was both wonderful and, well, really random, for lack of a better word. While reading through the Infographic Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything I found myself somewhere in the middle. Inforgraphic Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything This, however, was to be expected as I am very much not a sports fan. When reading through the Infographic Guide to Sports for example, I found myself at times simply not knowing what I was looking at – either I didn’t know a term, or I couldn’t fathom the significance or interest value in whatever fact they were showing me. The Infographic Guide to Literature was my favourite in the series not only because I am in love with the written word, but also because I have some background knowledge into the world of literature and the book trade which really made the visuals relevant and easily readable to me. James) and about the book trade in general (how much paper, ink etc… goes into book production). Elliot’s The Wasteland is pretty neat and more comprehensible than the poem, lol), authors (like George R.R. Actually, I discovered that it was pretty cool! I just fell into reading through all 80 pages of fun facts and interesting statistics about literature (the visual on T.S. So, while I do have to admit I was a little confounded upon opening the the Infographic Guide to Literature I was pleasantly surprised by the book which presented infographics about my beloved literature. Needless to say, I am not very visually oriented. I could barely draw a straight Cartesian plain without writing a paragraph explaining which one was the Y axis, and why it was dependent on the more straight x axis (I was trying to add a little creative flair to my graph, but I wasn’t doing a very good job, according to my maths teachers anyway). Well I too generally need words to understand what I am looking at. Creating and interpreting graphs and therefore graph ics has never been my strong suit. The Infographic Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything‘s author, Thomas Eaton (each of the books are authored by specialists in their respective fields) credits Florence Nightengale (that famous nurse) in 1857 that used infographics to convince Queen Victoria to improve conditions in military hospitals, showing visually that poor conditions cost lives.Īre there going to be words? Where will the words be? Can there at least be one paragraph? I just need a few words! *starts tearing out hair and wailing* So, it is no surprise that the presentation of information in graphic form has been around since… well since research on space in the 15 and 16oos, since cartography and navigation. Infographics aren’t new – we’ve seen them as memes on the internet, we’ve seen them in our textbooks and we’ve seen them in presentation. Infographic Guide To… series is published by Octopus Books and was released last year, 2014.
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