usa today snapshots

I was in Barnes and Noble and I noticed a little book filled with those USA Today infographics (they call them snapshots) so of course I had to pick it up. Most of the charts are so ridiculous, but fun nonetheless. I can see how the evolution of graphjam or indexed came about after so many years of this "McGraph" style of dumbing down the data to a funny cartoon. My feeling is that data should be presented in any number of ways depending on the audience, mood, information, just like food. Sometimes fine dining is called for, sometimes a hot dog will do. As long as you are eating, then it's all good!

Amazon has only four left as of today so folks must like them a cute little graph. Shhhh...don't tell but I think you can look at a lot of them on the internet.