Infographics- Democratising information

The world is a complicated place and if we ordinary Joes have any chance of understanding it we are going to need beautiful and revealing infographics like the following. Their brilliance is in making the esoteric, understandable to everyone. They seem to be part of a democratisation of knowledge, which empowers all of us to better understand the world.

GOOD Top 10

Web Seer - Visualizing Google's autocomplete options


Netflix data - Interactive DVD rental maps from the NYT