Isotype

So this isn't exactly ground breaking information, but I came across these whilst looking up different ways of displaying information. "... Otto Neurath who was involved throughout the 1920s with making statistics more accessible to the public. Neurath and his colleagues in Vienna designed Isotype, a visual language made up of pictograms and visual techniques for conveying complex issues following the motto: "it is better to remember simplified pictures than to forget accurate figures". Instead of creating diagrams of abstract shapes, these information pictures typically featured pictograms that individually resembled, for example, people and products. Taken together they represented more complex, social and economic issues such as health, working conditions, and global trade."