The best American infographics 2016 / introduction by Robert Krulwich ; edited by Gareth Cook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cook, Gareth, 1969- editor, writer of foreword.

Krulwich, Robert, writer of introduction.

Series:

Best American series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer graphics--United States.

Computer graphics.

Visual communication--United States.

Visual communication.

Communication--Graphic methods.

Communication.

Information visualization--United States.

Information visualization.

Charts, diagrams, etc--Design.

Charts, diagrams, etc.

Design.

United States.

Physical Description:

180 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm.

Other Title:

American infographics 2016

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

Summary:

The latest addition to the Best American series, featuring the most creative and effective visualizations of data from the past year.

Contents:

Dear Data / Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec

Occupations at the Ballot Box / Mark Edmond

What Do Americans Do All Day? / Nathan Yau

The Prospects for Pot / John Tomanio, Bryan Christie, and Shelley Sperry

Life During Wartime / Philip Bump

An Elemental Table of Sweets / Patterson Clark and Lazaro Gamio

The Deadliest Jobs in America / Christopher Cannon, Adam Pearce, and Alex McIntyre

Smell the City / Rossano Schifanella, Daniele Quercia, and Luca Aiello How Long You Have left to Live (On Average) / Nathan Yau

A Tax Bracket History / Alvin Chang

Watching Jobs As They Fall and Rise / Andrew Van Dam and Renee Lightner

A Year in the Life of the Data Artist / Nicholas Felton

How the Parties Came Apart / Mauro Martino, Clio Andris, and David Lee

Who's Buying American Elections / Wilson Andrews, Amanda Cox, Evan Grothjan, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Graham Roberts, and Karen Yourish

Two Longtime Queens, Compared / Karishma Sheth, Thomas Alberty, Marvin Orellana, Jody Quon, Ian Epstein, Christopher Bonanos, and Adam Moss A Live View of Super Bowl Odds / Stuart A. Thompson, Palani Kumanan, and Jim Chairusmi

Vaccines to the Rescue / Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman

The Real New Landscape of Detroit / Martin Gamache, Kelsey Nowakowski, Heidi Schultz, David Whitmore, and Noah Urban

A Centennial Look at Relativity's Influence / Jer Thorp, Noa Younse, Genevieve Hoffman, Ellery Royston, Jen Christiansen, Gary Stix, and Clara Moskowitz

Every Presidential Candidate Talks Like a Book / Josh Katz

Refugee Flows / Ed Johnson, Elaine Ayo, Amanda Silverman, Josef Reyes, and Mindy Kay

Game of Thrones of Doom / Shelly Tan and Alberto Cuadra

Sketch Artists in Chief / Various US presidents, various cartoonists, Samuel Granados, and Bonnie Berkowitz

What the Jukebox Knows / Elliott Ramos

Who Pollutes and Who Suffers Most / Valerio Pellegrini and Emily Newhook

Who Came to America When / Natalia Bronshtein

What Incarceration Costs Chicago City Blocks / Forest Gregg, Cathy Deng, Derek Eder, Eric van Zanten, Daniel Cooper, and Ryan Lugalia-Hollon

Stories of Past and Future / Randall Munroe The Syrian Death-Toll Flag / Richard Johnson, Tim Curran, Kevin Uhrmacher, Brian Cleveland, and Laris Karklis

Where the People Are / Bill Rankin

The Human Toll of World War II / Neil Halloran and Andy Dollerson

From "Uncle" to "Thang" / David Taylor

The Heights of Crime / Doug McCune

Uber for Everything / Kristin Lenz, Bobbie Gossage, and Jennifer Alsever

Urban Poverty's Rising Tide / Justin Palmer

Oscar Thanks, by the Numbers / Paul North, Chloe Williamson, William Hughes, and Baker Wilcox

Christie's Bridgegate / Bill Marsh and Kate Zernike

The Atlantic slave trade in two minutes / Andrew Kahn and Jamelle Bouie

Who's fighting whom in Syria / Derreck Johnson, Joshua Keating, and Chris Kirk

How baseball evolved / Andrew Garcia Phillips

Where they saw Mary / Virginia W. Mason, Michael O'Neill, Eve Conant, and Victoria Sgarro

Material World. 163 years of Atlantic hurricanes / Valerio Pellegrini, Raul Aguila, Grace Dobush, and Sarah Fallon

What country is beyond the horizon / Weiyi Cai, Laris Karklis and Ana Swanson

How to hack science / Ritchie King and Christie Aschwanden

Trajan's Column / Fernando G. Baptista, Daniela Santamarina, Emily Eng, Jeremy Berlin, Samantha Welker, Amanda Hobbs, and Kenneth Garrett

The essence of a western / Kevin L. Ferguson

What's really warming the world? / Eric Roston and Blacki Migliozzi

Inside the dolphin brain / Fernando G. Baptista, Shizuka Aoki, Daniela Santamarina, Mesa Schumacher, and Rachel Hartigan

The globe of economic complexity / Romain Vuillemot and Owen Cornec

How the Pope rolls / Kevin Uhrmacher and Richard Johnson

Single-minded maps / Studio Forage

An impossible map of electricity / Pierluigi Scotolati

How long will this baseball record last? / Joe Ward, Josh Katz, and Larry Buchanan

One day with a dwarf planet / Alexandra Witze, Lauren Morello, Jasiek Krysztofiak, Kelly Krause, and Wesley Fernandes

A literary road map / Richard Kreitner and Steven Melendez

A dizzying view of El Capitan's dawn wall / Shan Carter, Wilson Andres, Derek Watkins, and Joe Ward

The scenic route / Eric Fisher

Our avian future / Tiffany Farrant-Gonzalez, Breanna Draxler, and Katie Peek

The future of bonds in 3D / Gregor Aisch and Amanda Cox

A galaxy of trees / Jasiek Krzysztofiak, Kelly Krause, Wesley Fernandes, Matt Crenson, Jan Willem Tulp, and Rachel Ehrenberg

Draining the Colorado / Abraham Lustgarten, Al Shaw, Jeff Larson, Amanda Zamora, Lauren Kirchner, and John Grimwade

Drone work around the world / Caleb Bennet, Christy Sheppard Knell, Francesco Muzzi, Lauren Smiley, and Sarah Fallon

Best American infographics brain trust.

Notes:

"Mariner Books."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780544556386

0544556380

OCLC:

932050614