The Surprising History of the Infographic | History | Smithsonian

The Surprising History of the Infographic | History | Smithsonian

We live in an age of data visualization. Go to any news website and you’ll see graphics charting support for the presidential candidates; open your iPhone and the Health app will generate personalized graphs showing how active you’ve been this week, month or year. Sites publish charts showing how the climate is changing, how schools are…

OMG Space shows the relative size of the solar system in your browser

OMG Space shows the relative size of the solar system in your browser

OMG SPACE This project is only possible with the infinite scale of the web. To do this in print, one would have to sacrifice either distance or size in order to make it a feasible print job, which is why many textbooks unfortunately fail to illustrate the scale of the solar system accurately. All the…