In the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travels ever further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online attention, information graphics have swept center stage. At once nuanced and neat, data graphics can distill abstract ideas, complex statistics, and cutting-edge discoveries into succinct, compelling, and often visually masterful forms, sating our need for speed as much as our omnivorous eye for pleasing design and details. Cartographers, designers, programmers, statisticians, technicians, scientists, and journalists have developed a new field of...