The Nature of Data

This piece from Information Is Beautiful is interesting because it’s become commonplace for the media to quote numbers and figures with little or no frame of reference. A simple infographic shows the cost of the Iraq/Afghanistan war compared to say, Walmart or Apple’s profit margin, or the global cost of the economic meltdown.

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