The rise of infographics across virtually all print and electronic media reveals patterns in our lives and worlds in fresh and surprising ways. As we find ourselves in the era of big data, where information moves faster than ever, infographics provide us with quick, often influential bursts of art and knowledge — to digest, tweet, share, go viral. Best American Infographics 2014 captures the finest examples, from the past year, of this mesmerizing new way of seeing and understanding our world. Guest introducer Nate Silver brings his unparalleled expertise and lively analysis to this visually compelling new volume.
NATE SILVER, introducer, is thebest-selling author of The Signal and the Noise, a statistician, and the founder of ESPN’s fivethirtyeight.com.
GARETH COOK, series editor, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, regular contributor to NewYorker.com, and the editor of Mind Matters, Scientific American’s neuroscience blog.