(via Snake oil? Scientific evidence for health supplements)
“This visualisation generates itself from this Google Doc. So when new research comes out, we can quickly update the data and regenerate the image. (How cool is that??)”
Experience this live infographic by David McCandless & Andy Perkins.
Here is the Google Doc source if you want to see the raw data:
I am a big fan of visualizations for a well summarized big picture view. But the real utility is when they become doors that you can walk through more than once. A realtime, constantly changing data source that updates a sophisticated presentation layer is far more useful.
Next … give me a way to subscribe to this living visualization along with notifications that let me know when the spheres of interest change and are relevant to me. I will walk through that door every time.
