Many artists have taken to incorporating data or statistics into their art. David McCandless is one of them. The British data journalist founded the blog Information is Beautiful as well as published two infographic books. The blog takes data from society and “distills” it to create colorful visualizations. McCandless says that one of his goals is to expose hidden patterns within data about the world we live in.
On top of Information is Beautiful, McCandless has another website called Beautiful News. It seeks to put a new spin on the mundane consumption of news. The stories on the blog are almost all positive and they come with lovely pieces of digital artwork.
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