Information is Beautiful: the Sunscreen Smokescreen

I was curious about how much suncream you should wear. So I started looking for studies and research. That question led to another question. And then another and then another… Four months later, I emerged blinking from the soup of information surrounding sunscreen, ultraviolet radiation and skin cancer, drenched in knowledge. Somewhat pale-skinned. I really should get out more. The graphic on this page has a few of the answers I found. You can find the rest on my site informationisbeautiful.net . And check the studies, data and sources for yourself here: http://www.bit.ly/sunscreensmoke Credits Design, research, words: David McCandless Research: Miriam Quick Additional design: Joe Swainson, Derek Guo, Piero Zagami Data: http://www.bit.ly/sunscreensmoke About me I run InformationIsBeautiful.net , dedicated to visualising information, ideas, stories and data. Twitter @infobeautiful This an adapted page from my book of infographic exploria, Information Is Beautiful . In the US, the book's called The Visual Miscellaneum More open data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world's global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter • Like us on Facebook