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Handy Chart Makes Fish Decisions Easy

Sardines or tuna? Long line or farmed? It's hard to remember all the vocabulary to make fish-buying decisions at the supermarket. Peruse these illustrations to get a sense of which fish are still surviving enough for us to eat them.READ»

Infographic of the Day: Visualizing Hot Air in the Global Warming "Debate"

A graphic summarizing the debate between global warming skeptics and the scientific consensus.READ»

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The Biggest Stories of Our Time, Visualized

For the past year, David McCandless has immersed himself in the story-telling possibilities of charts, and the fruit of those efforts--works he's done, and works contributed by a slew of all-star designers--are now collected in "The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia."READ»

Women Flock to Social Networks: Will They Dump Dating Sites to "Make Friends" Safely?

Recent data shows that the number of women logging on to social-networking sites far exceeds the number of men. Information is Beautiful recently presented the information, as gathered by Google Ad Planner.  LinkedIn and YouTube ...READ»

Visualization: What's a Billion, Here and There?

With all this talk of billion-dollar bailout programs, one information designer creates a chart that puts it all in context.READ»