Ever find yourself glazing over when confronted with a 30 page slide show of bar graphs, figures, pie graphs and spider graphs, making the uninteresting dull and laborious.

This tends to be the primary function of quantitative analysis, up until now. Over at informationisbeautiful.net David McCandless presents all kinds of information in a way that makes facts and figures interesting and frankly, beautiful again.

There are certainly lessons here that can be learned about making information digestible in order for it to be memorable, rather than just dull. In a society that is in dire need of a clear analysis of all our global issues, David is a bit like the Wizard of Oz.

An example of this is his analysis of Drug deaths versus news reported deaths caused by the drug. Goes to show, don't believe everything you read.