Friday, August 24, 2012

Beautiful Infographic: The plotlines of the 2011 Man Booker longlist

I love a good infographic, and this one is so striking. In some ways this is kind of reductive (and of course that's the point of an infographic) - most of these books (the ones I've read in any case) are about so much more than just the plotline. Nevertheless, it's an intruiging and thought-provoking (not to mention attractive) perspective.  


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Infographic by Visual News
Posted by Magdalena Ball at 1:15 AM
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2 comments:

  1. widdershinsAugust 25, 2012 at 1:20 AM

    Way cool! I'd love to see something like this for SF novels.

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  2. Magdalena BallAugust 25, 2012 at 2:22 AM

    Yes, you could do it for any grouping really. 2012 Nebula awards, for example. On any criteria - plot, character type, settings. If you were able to do it over a period of time - say, comparatively for award winner from 1966 (the year the awards started) to 2012, you could then have a fantastic Gapminder style motion graph that would clearly demonstrate reading habit changes over the years. Lots of work to do it - you'd need to read and analyse every book, but as a group project, it would be very interesting (and make for an excellent TED talk)!

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