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INFOGRAPHIC OF THE DAY  

With Infographic, Airbnb Turns Boring Facts Into Masterful Marketing

BY Belinda LanksToday

The company has experienced meteoric growth over the last year, fueled by global expansion. And they're good at telling the story. READ»

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Urbanflow Aims To Turn Cities Into Playgrounds For Interactive Infographics

BY John PavlusThu Jan 26, 2012

Ever find yourself wandering around a new city (or even one you're familiar with), and approach one of those handy urban info-kiosks only to find that it's completely inadequate to the task of telling you where you are, where you ... READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: Could Twitter Help Us Create Smarter Transit Routes?

BY John PavlusTue Jan 24, 2012

Traditional city maps visualize just one aspect of urban design--the city's intended structure, full stop. But add in a layer that visualizes how people actually use the city, and then the map becomes much more interesting. Eric ... READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: 2011's Biggest Internet Events

BY Belinda LanksMon Jan 23, 2012

The folks at the London-based “ideas agency” Syzygy just sent us this illustration by their creative director, Peter Jaworowski, of the “20 greatest, funniest and most insane internet events from 2011.” Here’s the thing: You ... READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: Bill Gates Is A Better Superhero Than Batman

BY John PavlusFri Jan 20, 2012

Bill Gates is no Steve Jobs. He's not a charismatic showman or messianic artist-technologist. He's something arguably better than that: He's an action hero. Who else but a comic-book superhuman could claim credit for saving nearly six ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Not All Bad Ideas Are Created Equal

BY John PavlusWed Jan 18, 2012

Some say ideas are everything. Others say ideas are cheap. David Lynch says ideas are fish. David McCandless of Information Is Beautiful took a closer look and tried to chart "a taxonomy of ideas" on a two-axis graph (much like New ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: A Map Of NYC's Lost Subway Lines

BY John PavlusTue Jan 17, 2012

I used to live by the Hoyt-Schermerhorn stop in the New York subway system, which is famous for having a disused platform that movie productions use to stage scenes (the music video for Bad, directed by Martin Scorsese, was shot ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: All About The 2012 Facebook IPO

BY Cliff KuangFri Jan 13, 2012

If you haven't heard, all signs are pointing to a Facebook IPO in 2012. And if you have heard, I bet you know exactly two things about that fact: 1. Mark Zuckerberg will become very, very rich. 2. Facebook is HUGE! True enough. But ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: How Much Money Makes You Rich?

BY Suzanne LaBarreThu Jan 12, 2012

Here’s a chart for Mint.com by Column Five Media that tells us as much about America’s fraught relationship to money as any sign at Zuccotti Park. That’s because it reveals how Americans perceive wealth. Is it earning $60,000 a ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: The Magic And Madness Of The Creative Process

BY Suzanne LaBarreWed Jan 11, 2012

Visual.ly has tipped us off to a fun little infographic by Virus Comix that uses the metaphor of a street map to show the many routes, stops, loops, and warning signs we encounter on the bumpy road to creative brilliance. Note ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: Mapping The World's Tweet Networks

BY Tim MalyTue Jan 10, 2012

This is a picture of the world, as connected by Twitter, created by Eric Fischer. It shows where people travel--and, what's more, who they communicate with all around the world. Thus, in one map, you can see where people's physical ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: America's Strange Attitudes Towards Food

BY Cliff KuangMon Jan 9, 2012

Your average American eats more calories per day than people in any other country in the world. No surprise there! But once you start delving in the data, the picture does indeed get a little weird: We don't eat that much more than ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: Watch The World's Snapshot Activity In 2011

BY Belinda LanksFri Jan 6, 2012

Holidays are usually full of work-free fun, social events, family time--and lots of camera flashes. Respites from the office go hand in hand with the impulse to document them, as this video of a year in snapshots, created by ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: The Insane Economics Behind College-Bowl Football

BY Cliff KuangWed Jan 4, 2012

Right now, we're in the thick of college-bowl season: The Orange Bowl is tonight, the Cotton Bowl is on Friday, and Monday brings the championship Sugar Bowl, pitting LSU against Alabama. (Geaux Tigers!) Unless you live under a rock ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: Is Global Warming Causing Extreme Weather?

BY Cliff KuangTue Dec 20, 2011

One of the scariest predictions of modern climate science is that global warming isn't going to simply make the world warmer--it's going to make our weather more extreme. Thus, we might see droughts descending for decades at a time, ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: A Map Using Only Famous Streets From Songs

BY Suzanne LaBarreMon Dec 19, 2011

Here’s a clever new poster for music freaks to nerd out on: a sprawling street map, by the British design collective Dorothy, made up entirely of geographically minded song titles. Like a real city map, it details ...READ»

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The Case For Girls Infographic: Women In Numbers

BY Sheena MedinaFri Dec 16, 2011

The response to Fast Company's recent feature story, "The Case for Girls," has been incredible. First, digital agency AKQA's mock ad campaign became a real-life call to action and a mobilizing worldwide event. Now social media ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: The Blessing And Curse Of Being A Millennial

BY Cliff KuangThu Dec 15, 2011

You heard constantly about the millennial generation--that they're tech-savvy, and different from everyone that came before. It's not just hype, or vanity on the part of the youngsters: People who are 18-29 right now have markedly ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: How Bikes Can Solve Our Biggest Problems

BY Cliff KuangWed Dec 14, 2011

Americans are getting fatter every year, and weight-related diseases kill us at a rate second only to tobacco. There's been lots of proposed solutions to that problem--rejiggering the food pyramid, advertising campaigns, soda taxes. ...READ»

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Infographic Of The Day: Who Are The Web's Most Popular Writers?

BY Cliff KuangTue Dec 13, 2011

If you took a guess at the most-read authors on the Internet, you'd probably pick some big, household names such as Paul Krugman of the New York Times or Bill Simmons at ESPN. You'd be wrong, at least according to the data gathered by ...READ»

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