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Great resource of both good and bad examples of graphical representations.

I like how it is labeled 'laurels' and 'darts'. As visual consumers, we have a responsibility to be informed how graphics can be misconstrued or misleading.

Comparison of major league baseball teams' wins and payroll spending over the past 10 years. No surprise--Yankees spend the most and win the most games. But there are some interesting trends.

This is related to the movie posted earlier

This is linked to the infographic

The section on graphs (in the second half of the page) describes how our perspective can be 'deceived' by presenting information in certain ways.

A magazine known for their interesting and innovative infographics. Thanks to Rob Lamb for the reference.

This is an interactive data visualization showing the popularity and the amount of evidence for various health supplements. You can turn off and on the conditions the supplements are intended to treat. There are also hyperlinks to key studies.

The website of "data journalist" David McCandless. Really solid design and informative infographics.

Wow- an even more complex way to look at social networks.....

Also, just cool. What visualization has stuck with you your whole life? "All 1,943 Cornell Faculty were asked to respond to the following question: Of the many charts (graph, map, diagram, table and 'other') you have seen in your life, which has been the most important, remarkable, meaningful or valuable? On the archival paper provided, they were asked to create a copy of the chart and in the remaining space annotate notable attribute of the data and the image, describe what they remembered about first seeing this image and comment on why they chose this image. All other Cornell community members are invited to share their favorite chart by visiting the display table in Mann Library near the reference desk on the first floor."

Visualization of Climate change- from both perspectives

Representation of global media scares- would be cooler if it was compared to actual deaths from the purported deadliness

Ok, while you might not be able to get away with this at some schools, this is an amazing hook to let (older) kids explore the power of taking piles of data and transferring it to an infographic.