In a culture awash in data, infographics -- visual representations of facts and figures -- are vital to communicating complicated information on websites, in books and newspapers and elsewhere ...

All of which may help to explain why this infographic by Zach Weinersmith and Ross Nover is one of my favorites in quite some time. Not only are the gripes about sketchy sourcing, irrelevant data ...

In 2009, he did a series of infographics gatefolds for Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year issue that was a numerical depiction of what made the year’s winners so influential.