10 Best Infographics of 2010

In my opinion, these are all absolutely horrible infographics. They either spend several pages to tell a few irrelevant numbers (White House), or hide interesting data to a graphical mess (Almighty Dollar and How Much Does It Really Cost to Raise a Kid).<p>For example Almighty Dollar uses spherical layout for no good reason, which makes it much harder to compare bars and numbers behind them.

Many of these would be at home in the "what not to do" section of Tufte's book.<p>Also - anyone notice on the White House graphic it says that the pope visited "President Cart"?

I'm gonna go ahead and jump on the infographic-hate bandwagon. The income-by-religion one is acceptable and the hipster one is funny, but they're all mostly crap.<p>The idea itself isn't bad - you use a series of graphs connected by some kind of flow to try and present an ideausing solid quantitative data. Unfortunately, what mostly comes out is "throw some random graphs, some irrelevant and distracting photos and a few trying-to-hard-to-be-funny jokes and hope for the best"

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