{"id":379,"date":"2013-01-08T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/?p=379"},"modified":"2017-05-03T20:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:35:31","slug":"carbon-dioxide-information-is-beautiful-and-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/2013\/01\/08\/carbon-dioxide-information-is-beautiful-and-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon dioxide information is beautiful (and scary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ideas, issues, knowledge, data \u2014 visualized!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This clever illustration from the &#8220;Information is Beautiful&#8221; is from the website of David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer. \u00a0It makes it easier to imagine the relative amounts of\u00a0carbon dioxide\u00a0emitted to the atmosphere and marks the predicted dates of some consequences of climate change. \u00a0Check it out at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/how-many-gigatons-of-co2\/\">http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/how-many-gigatons-of-co2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Personally, I&#8217;m a big fan of clever and easy-to-follow illustrations because they are part art and part teaching genius. \u00a0They also appeal to my tendency to think in abstract shapes and patterns. \u00a0What do you think of this illustration?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are numerous other examples of illustrated data sets worth exploring on this website, such as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/play\/snake-oil-supplements\/\">http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/play\/snake-oil-supplements\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, that beautiful photo is from \u00a9 David Liittschwager \/ National Geographic Stock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas, issues, knowledge, data \u2014 visualized! This clever illustration from the &#8220;Information is Beautiful&#8221; is from the website of David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer. \u00a0It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1263,"featured_media":247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}