The rise of infographics across virtually all print and electronic media reveals patterns in our lives and worlds in fresh and surprising ways. As we find ourselves in the era of big data, where information moves faster than ever, infographics provide us with quick, often influential bursts of art and knowledge--to digest, tweet, share, go viral. Best American Infographics 2014 captures the finest examples, from the past year, of this mesmerizing new way of seeing and understanding our world. Guest introducer Nate Silver brings his unparalleled expertise and lively analysis to this visually compelling new volume

• I. You : Who we are / Jack Hagley
• Madeline Puckette
• Peter Bell & Stephanie Stamm
• James Wannerton
• Dirk Aschoff & Klaas Neumann
• Cedric Kiefer, Johannes Poell, Josef Reyes, Lee Simmons & Sarah Fallon
• Mike Sudal, Matthew Futterman & Seth Hamblin
• Richard Johnson, Mike Faille & Michael Higgins
• Caroline Paul, Wendy MacNaughton & Tibby the cat
• Bonnie Scranton, James de Vries, Scott Berinato & Christina Bortz
• Karishma Sheth, Thomas Alberty & Emma Whitford
• John Tomanio, Alexander Stegmaier & 5W Infographics
• Adam Duerson & Trevor Lazarus
• Katie Shelly & Katherine Furman; Gay and in the closet / Bill Marsh & Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Kelli Anderson & Sara Distin The perfect wine for the meal / How to be happy/ Heather Jones & Katy Steinmetz
• The first steps matter the most / Underground taste map / Buzzy drinks / Is the author human? / Fastball analytics / Body sculpture / Lost cat / A portrait of your in-box / Empire state building decoder / English by the book / Haircuts: Brady vs. Manning / Visual recipes / Existential calculator /

• II. Us : When the night is dark, the lions atttack / Fernando Baptista, Daniela Santamarina, Jane Vessels & Fanna Gebreyesus
• Maria Popova, Giorgia Lupi, Simone Quadri, Gabriele Rossi, Davide Ciuffi, Federica Fragapane, Francesco Majno & Wendy MacNaughton; A fire disaster unfolds / Todd Lindeman & Bonnie Berkowitz
• Andrew Horton, Jen Gilbert, Silvio Pietroluongo, Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust
• Richard Johnson, Andrew Barr, Mike Faille & Michael Higgins
• Rueben Fischer-Baum
• Robert Nippoldt, Christine Goppel, Tobias Glasmacher & Sylke Mehrbold
• Monica Stephens, Matthew Eiben, Miles Ross & Amelia Egle
• John Grimwade & Jeong Suh
• Randy Yeip
• Todd Lindeman & Bonnie Berkowitz
• Nicolas Rapp & Ryan Bradley
• Richard Johnson, Andrew Barr, Jonathan Forani, David Corrigan & Rob Roberts
• Heather Jones & Emily Maltby
• Karen Yourish & Larry Buchanan
• Bill Rankin
• Davide Ciuffi, Federica Fragapane, Francesco Majno, Giorgia Lupi, Simone Quadri & Gabriele Rossi
• Jennifer Daniel & Dorothy Gambrell
• Martin Gamach & Matt Twombly
• Bill Rankin
• Jeff Goertzen
• Shan Carter, Amanda Cox & Alicia Parlapiano
• Valentina D'Efilippo Writers, sleep, and productivity / How long it takes to reach #1 / The hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay / Is your state's highest-paid employee a coach? (probably) / Social network of jazz in 1920s New York City / Hate maps / The most beautiful goals / Raising the debt ceiling / How to pick a pope / The global flow of tobacco / Bieber, then and now / The NSA's vast net / Gun laws since Newtown / French kisses / The varieties of genius / The unemployement number by the people / Deadly Everest / The Midwest by consensus / Competitive surfing / The shape of the income ladder depends on where you live / Fields of commemoration /

• III. The material world : A wheel of 65 cheeses / Pop Chart Lab
• Sean McNaughton, Matthew Twombly, Jane Vessels, Samuel Velasco & Amanda Hobbs
• Seth Kadish
• Jeremy Huggins
• John Baxter, Todd James, John Tomanio & Matt Twombly
• Raoul Ra??oa, Rong-Gong Lin II, Rosanna Xia, Doug Smith & Len DeGroot
• Mortiz Stefaner, Jillian Walters & Jen Christiansen
• Lawson Parker, Martin Gamache & Nick Kaloterakis
• Scott Thrift
• Colin Spoelman & Sebit Min
• Stephan Hormes & Silke Peust
• Carl De Torres, Margaret Swart, Bill Wasik, & Joanna Pearlstein
• Bryan Christie, Munehito Sawada, John Korpics, Jason Lancaster, Bruce Kelley, Amy Brachmann, Eddie Martz, Paul Kix & Ben Bradley
• Emily Cooper, Jasiek Krysztofiak, Kelly Kruse & Richard Monastersky
• Randall Munroe
• Virginia W. Mason, Fernando Baptista, Daniela Santamarina, Janes Vessels & Fanna Gebreysus
• Bill Rankin
• Karen Comins, Oliver Uberti & Hannah Tak To the moon and beyond / Composers / Baseball parks / Preserving Mount Rushmore in cyberspace / Earthquake concrete / As the world changes, so do the wild bees / The biggest storm / Clock of the present / The family tree of bourbon / The literal meaning of the states / Overkill / What a fastball looks like / The truth about T. Rex / Angular size / Great winged migrations / Lands truly discovered / What species leaves behind /

• IV. Interactive / Fernanda B. Viegas : Drone attacks / Wesley Grubbs, Nick Yahnke & Mladen Balog
• Dustin A. Cable
• Adam Cole, Christopher Groskopf, Alyson Hurt, Jeremy Bowers & Danny DeBelius
• Dan Pisut, Tim Loomis, Vivek Goel & Wei Guo
• Mike Bostock, Matt Ericson, David Leonhardt & Bill Marsh
• John Keefe, Steven Melendez & Louise Ma
• Irene Jay Liu, Katy Harris & Mark Schifferli
• Thomas Rhiel
• Lisa Strausfeld, Hilla Katki, Christopher Cannon, Jeremy Diamond, Kenton Powell, David Harding, Alia Shafir, Christian Swinehart & Lina Chen
• Map stack / Stamen Design
• Best American infographics brain trust Racial dot map / Previously, on arrested developement / Our green world / Across US companies, tax rates vary greatly / Transit time, NYC / Connected China / Block by block, Brooklyn's past and present / Bloomberg billionares /