Books like The Best American Infographics 2013 by David Byrne

A visual guide that transforms complex data into striking illustrations, showing how information shapes our modern world.

**A leading data visualization expert explores the negative - and positive - influences that charts have on our perception of truth.** We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous - and easier to share than ever. While such visualizations can better inform us, they can also deceive by displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns - or simply misinform us by being poorly designed, such as the confusing “eye of the storm” maps shown on TV every hurricane season. Many of us are ill equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate visuals to promote their own agendas. Public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers, and to make sense of them we must be able to decode and use visual information. By examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, *How Charts Lie* teaches us how to do just that.

Dear Data is an intimate, year‑long mail‑art project where Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec transform everyday moments—sleep, spending, mirror use—into hand‑drawn visualizations on postcards, celebrating the beauty of small data and human detail.

An introductory guide to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that covers the basics and practical applications for designing and publishing modern web sites.