Why do we organize our families into trees, our corporations into boxy, top-down reporting structures, and our learning into outlines—when we all know that everything is just a bit more complicated than that? Hailed as "the man who turns data into art,” Manuel Lima believes knowledge is not only less modular and centralized than we may perceive; it’s also more beautiful. In his follow-up to the massively popular The Book of Trees (about branches of knowledge), Lima, a data visualization specialist and Google Design Lead, brings us The Book of Circles, in which he explores spheres of knowledge, and curates a new taxonomy for the incredible visual diversity and—to quote Lima himself—“immensely gorgeous” representations of what we know.

This program is generously underwritten by Lisa and Paul Wiggin.

This program was recorded on November 3, 2018.

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