By Alex Jackson on 20 Feb 2014
From an early visual representation of a hierarchically ordered universe in Robert Fludd’s ‘Great Chain of Being’ (1617) to a contemporary moving infographic of ocean currents from NASA, a free new exhibition in London shows how visualising data has changed the way we see, interpret and understand the world around us. Read more
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By Alex Jackson on 20 Jan 2014
“We find ourselves in the era of big data, a time when information moves faster than ever, and infographics provide us with quick, often influential bursts of insight and knowledge. They are a mesmerizing new way of seeing and understanding our world”, says Gareth Cook, Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and series editor of the Best American Infographics. Read more
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