Before you get your data all up in a bunch, fellow pie chart-lovers, the team at SlideHero assured me that they are not the only ones to dismiss this tasty data visualization. So we'll agree to ...

In 1931, John B. Sparks distilled human civilization into a single chart. Even today, it’s great infographic design. If time is a river, the Histomap, created by John B. Sparks and first ...

The Circle Graph and Pie Chart . No one really knows how Playfair dreamt up the pie chart. Some wonder whether it’d always been around—and if Playfair was just the first to actually publish one.

Last week, we wrote about our loathing of pie charts. That piece seems to have struck a nerve, so it's about time we addressed a second major beef with modern data visualization: infographics have ...

INFOGRAPHIC: 2000 Years Of Following The Money In One Graph June 19, 2012 Tweet. This is ... accounts for 60 percent of the world population but only 30 percent of its GDP.

Want to think about the power of social data, then you don’t need to go much further than the one trillion social connections on Facebook and its increasing footprint in local search. For your clients ...

03-21-2013 INFOGRAPHIC OF THE DAY. ... based on Facebook data. There’s a color for each of the tourney’s 64 teams–though only 51 are on the map.

Pop Chart’s newest version of its superpower infographic doubles its previous iterations with references to more than 200 superpowers and 600 comic book characters. Culled from the last 75 years ...

The folks at backup service Mozy have created a nifty infographic that illustrates the staggering scale of modern data usage (we're storing 600 billion gigabytes of data! That's 13 layers of books ...

The takeaway: every bar graph needs a zero on its scale. If you see one without a zero, be careful. In a future post I'll discuss whether line graphs and other graphs also need a zero on their scales.