A great example of an infographic gone awry, at least in my mind, is the recently updated U.S. Department of Agriculture infographic recommending the daily allocation of food for a healthy diet.

The base of the pyramid is most poignant and it illustrates how 3.47 billion adults (70 percent of the total) share a wealth of $7.6 trillion or just 2.6 percent of total wealth.

He created an infographic for USA Today based on the Department of Agriculture’s introduction of a new food pyramid in 2005 that was meant to be a simpler diagram to show people what they should ...