13 of the Year's Best Infographics

So what do all these infographics have in common? What, ultimately, qualified a piece for the designation of one of the year’s best?Cook spells out some criteria in the introduction: intellectual power, aesthetic sophistication, and emotional impact. But another thing Cook looked for was a sense that the pieces understood the questions they were trying to answer, and took a form that helped readers find those answers.

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