{"id":722,"date":"2009-08-05T13:57:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T18:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2009-08-05T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T18:59:43","slug":"information-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2009\/08\/05\/information-is-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Information is beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who knows me (and\/or reads this blog) will know of my love of issues related to representation (<a href=\"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/category\/representation\/\">see all postings under that category<\/a>). So I am always looking out for new and interesting representations. An lovely example sent to me by Patrick Dickson is website titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/\">Information is beautiful<\/a>. This site, and much of the work showcased there is the creation of David McCandless, a free-lance information designer. He describes his interests as being in &#8220;how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>For instance check out <strong>If Twitter was a community of 100 people<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/infobeautiful.s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter100_550.gif\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Twitter were 100 people\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An example of how just visualizing and representing data can change one&#8217;s prior conception of a idea can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/2009\/how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb\/\">How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (sort of)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The one that made the best connection to me personally was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/2009\/caffeine-vs-calories\/\">Caffeine &#038; Calories. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who knows me (and\/or reads this blog) will know of my love of issues related to representation (see all postings under that category). So I am always looking out for new and interesting representations. An lovely example sent to me by Patrick Dickson is website titled Information is beautiful. This site, and much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10,11,37,9,29,49],"tags":[82,616,600,115,601,116,599,63,615,617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}