In the first part of “Graphs, Maps, Trees”, Moretti discuss ways to read by using graphs. The author focus on telling his readers that graphs are not only used in math and science but can also be used in literature as well. Moretti uses visuals from history to explain his idea. HE charts the number of new novels published each year in Denmark, France, Japan and Italy and connected them to political and social changes. He also argues that literary studies have been random and unsystematic. To me, he was persuasive because after reading part one of the book I thought that his points were very clear that he made. I think that the graphs were clear and it shows the points being made. I liked figure 9: British novelistic genres the best because it shows the different genres and how they start to disappear.

I found the website informationisbeautiful.com to be very interesting. I liked all of the remixes on that page. I found Plane truth dragged my attention because it shows all the plane crashes for the past 20 years. It was not in a regular time but in colorful square boxes.   When randomly selected box are clicked on, it provided the date, location and causes of the crashes. I also liked the mind-full meditation remix. It shows you different ways to fee relax and how to stay positive.