Infosthetics has named the winners of the “Most Ugly & Useless Infographic Competition”, and wow were there some simply horrible ones. Shown to the right is one of the winners, a chart from CERN of the recently activated LHC.
Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC.
“From the press release two days ago, regarding the first (CERN) collisions… I vote this image as the ugliest and most useless visualization online. It may not be the most garish or info-deprived, but when normalized by the money, time, and scientific effort that went into it, I think it’s a clear winner! Based on this image, it doesn’t matter what scientists learn from the LHC, because nobody will understand any of the resulting visualizations… I can only imagine the conversation: “Don’t you see? The blue dots only reach the giant red bars, but the pink dots reach clear through the green bars out to the purple bars… and we have unit-less axes everywhere! Grand unification theory, here we come!”
Source: cern.ch
Submitted by Jeremy Belldina.
The other winner is a mysterious chart entitled “In-Chart Encryption”. See all the entries on their website.
via Most Ugly & Useless Infographic Competition: The Winners – information aesthetics.
