Information is beautiful

Being a highly visual learner, I love finding clear and innovative visual representations of complex data. Today I found a treasure trove of infographics that use colour and symbols really effectively to communicate detailed statistics and intricate relationships.

Here are some examples (click on the links for full details):

 Health supplements

Sea level rise

Disease fatality

Mountains out of molehills

What do those billions look like?

Colours in cultures

Such images remind me of this clever web project (you might also like to see its creator, Jonathan Harris, talk about visual story-telling if you have some spare time ...).

Very inspiring!

Update - I realised that most of my links weren't working for the images - I've added them as text links and they should be linking properly now.