It’s our 15th anniversary this year and we’d love to hear about you: who you are, why you follow us, what you like, what you don’t, what you value and how you interact with us and anyone else in the infosphere. Yes, it’s a survey but a quick two minute one. Plus every 100th parti … | Continue reading
We are announcing special workshops and trainings to celebrate our 15th anniversary. Coming up: A rare in-person session in LDN with IIB founder David McCandless (we do these once a year). A virtual workshop running on two half days and the regular full day session. Learn how to … | Continue reading
Every month we pick and share some of our favourite infographics, visualisations and data stories. Here’s what we found in our work folders and around the web. CREATED BY US » Two Years of the Russia-Ukraine War – Key numbers. Casualties. Military spend. Foreign aid. » $$$Trillio … | Continue reading
We’ve updated our interactive LLM tracker with 30 new and notable LLMs including Anthropic Claude 3, Twitter’s Grok, all Mistral’s offerings, Google Gemini Pro, Apple’s MM1 (finally!) and Chinese LLMs like DeepSeek, GLM-4 and Xinghuo 3.5. We’ve also flagged up soon-to-be-released … | Continue reading
To celebrate 15 years of Information is Beautiful this June, we’re hosting a series of rare and exclusive live performances in London, San Francisco, LA and potentially other cities – plus some virtual events for global timezones. IIB founder and TED speaker David McCandless will … | Continue reading
Two years into the conflict this infographic data story reveals some of the harsh, hidden numbers around casualties, military budgets and foreign aid in the Russia-Ukraine war. In times of war, data is difficult to validate, information hard to find. We polled a variety of source … | Continue reading
An interactive visualisation of all the cases and decisions Meta’s Oversight Board has taken between 2020 and today. The semi-independent ‘Supreme Court’ deals with controversial content-moderation issues on Facebook and Instagram. Hate speech. Promotion of dangerous organisatio … | Continue reading
23andMe, Xfinity, X/Twitter and the Indonesian people (yes all of them) – are among the latest victims listed in our ongoing visualisation of data leaks, hacks and breaches (2023-2004) We’ve also updated the new interactive graphic – Breaches by Data Sensitivity – so you can see … | Continue reading
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives » Tue 5th Mar 2024 – UK/EU timezone » Tue 26th Mar 2024 – US timezone » Tue 30st Apr 2024 – AUS timezone » Streamable on-demand version now also available. Our trainings are a technicolour mix of lecture, exercises, discussion … | Continue reading
Ending the year on a positive note, our picks of positive trends and admirable global breakthroughs of 2023. Part of our Beautiful News project. There we surface the good news and happy data we can’t always see when fixated on the negativity of the news. » See the charticle » Exp … | Continue reading
A consensus cloud of the most mentioned novels in best-books-of-the-year polls. Which literary novels do the critics agree are the best of 2023? We’ve been updating this the last few years. It currently covers 2020-2023. » See the visualisation » Check the data Sources: Time Maga … | Continue reading
May we humbly suggest our lush, 256 page infographic books, as potential gifts? All three, published by Harper Collins, are 256 pages of mind-bending facts and enlightening visuals.Iif there’s someone in your life who loves numbers and visuals and facts as much as we do, these mi … | Continue reading
And who has the largest oil reserves? Maybe less cross-comparison than you might think. » see the graphic Voronoi Charts made with our tool VizSweet. | Continue reading
We’ve finally opened an art-print store. It’s been 10 years since we last sold posters of our #infographic works. So technically everything there is limited edition! 😊 Why the long hiatus? Partly, you know, busyness. And partly because we wanted to guarantee the most eco- … | Continue reading
An interactive graphic we’ve been curating for a couple of years detailing ~630 large or notable ransomware attacks. Year on year trend seems to suggests attacks slowing in 2023. Though smaller, more vulnerable targets like healthcare institutions, schools and other academic enti … | Continue reading
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our annual celebration of beauty and excellence in dataviz — the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards! This year’s winners were selected from a record-breaking 900 entries across nine categories and seven special awards. Drumroll please… … | Continue reading
Just a little explorer, an oeuvrexplorer if you like, for A24 – one of our favourite movie studios. They released Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and many others you may have liked / seen (MidSommar, Under the Skin, Ex Machina, Moonlight). We’ve fitted the interactive with a … | Continue reading
An infographical flyover of key Buddhist thought, detailing notions of enlightenment, higher states of consciousness and the principle of ‘dependent origination‘. Originally created in 2014 for my book, Knowledge is Beautiful, this infographic was part of my personal exploration … | Continue reading
Get inspired by 80+ shortlisted works from the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards. Discover the crème de la crème of this year’s fascinating infographics, visualisations and data stories. Don’t forget to register and cast your vote in each of the 9 categories: » Arts, Entertain … | Continue reading
Now that the summer blockbuster season has wrapped, we’ve updated our interactive visualisation of Hollywood’s biggest box office hits and flops. Just how well are Barbie and Oppenheimer are doing so far? (Hint: very). » Have a look at the visualisation to find out. » See the raw … | Continue reading
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives » Tue 17th Oct 2023 – US timezone » Tue 14th Nov 2023 – UK/EU timezone » Streamable on-demand version now also available. Our trainings are a technicolour mix of lecture, exercises, discussion & techniques, hosted by IIB founde … | Continue reading
We’re thrilled to announce the much-anticipated longlist for the Information is Beautiful Awards 2023! This year, we received an astounding 800+ entries from talented designers, data scientists, and creatives worldwide. A massive thank you to everyone who sent in a submission! » … | Continue reading
Our yearly celebration of the best infographics and data-visualisations from around the world is back for 2023! Now in its tenth year and in association with The Data Visualisation Society, a professional home and community for those working in this discipline. If you create in t … | Continue reading
The properties that make plastics so versatile and useful – their strength, durability, flexibility – also make them difficult or impossible for nature to fully assimilate – or to recycle. » See the graphic Part of a forthcoming series of graphics on ‘The Problem with Plastics’ t … | Continue reading
UFOS (or UAPs Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) are all over the news. But what are they? Extra terrestrials? Intra-terrestrials? Inter-dimensionals? Weather-balloons? Sundogs? Enemy drones? Secret military tech? Or something even stranger…? Check out an infographic summary of all t … | Continue reading
World population by country – visualized. The latest United Nations’ estimates show India overtaking China as the world’s most populous country. » See this ‘Voronoi’ visualisation of the World’s Most Populous Nations » Check the data Made with our dataviz software VizSweet. | Continue reading
AI is getting very chatty! Here’s a visualisation charting the rise of Large Language Models like GPT4, LaMDA, LLaMa, PaLM and their bots like ChatGPT. There’s also a revealing little data-story that arises when you plot all the LLMs. » See the visualisation » Explore the data | Continue reading
New dates for our fun online intensives Learn how to turn numbers, ideas & data into beautiful charts, graphics & stories. Next dates: » Wed Mar 22nd 2023 – Australia timezone » Tue Mar 28th – US timezone » Wed Jun 14th – UK / EU timezone These trainings are a technicolour mix of … | Continue reading
The results are in! After combing through hundreds of impressive, insightful and inventive entries, we’re proud to announce the winners of the World Data Visualization Prize 2023. Conducted in partnership with the World Government Summit, the competition this year focuses on the … | Continue reading
After much agonising judging, we are proud to announce the shortlist for this year’s World Dataviz Prize. » Check out the visualisations We cannot stress enough the high quality of the entries. So many beautiful, creative and technically accomplished pieces of work. We wish we co … | Continue reading
We shared three datasets about the past, present and future of societies, tech & government. You created over 450 beautiful visualisations, infographics and interactives. Over the past few nights, we’ve been carefully distilling the longlists: » Poster / Static Visualisations » I … | Continue reading
Everyone says and thinks Avatar right? But, as ever, it depends how you look at it. We took a deep data dive and found some surprising, even horrifying answers. » See the data story » Explore the data | Continue reading
We’ve launched a creative dataviz challenge in partnership with the World Government Summit. We’re supplying the datasets and concepts. You provide data-visualizations, infographics or interactives that tell a story or reveal something interesting about the data. The theme is pas … | Continue reading
Updated our Billion-Dollar-O-Gram of billion amounts taken from headlines with 2022 data. » see the graphic » review the data | Continue reading
Starting the year on an optimistic note. Our favourite Beautiful News stories from 2022, highlighting special achievements, admirable breakthroughs and positive trends. » All in one interactive graphic. » See the data and sources » Here’s last year’s | Continue reading
We’re launching a creative dataviz challenge in partnership with the World Government Summit. (A little something to keep your creative neurons firing over the holidays.) We’re supplying the datasets and concepts. You provide data-visualizations, infographics or interactives that … | Continue reading
A couple more of our fun online intensives » Mon Nov 21st 2022 – in-person, London UK » Tue Dec 6th 2022 – virtual, US timezone Our trainings are a technicolour mix of lecture, exercises, discussion & techniques, hosted by IIB founder and author, David McCandless. » See what part … | Continue reading
Come learn how to turn numbers, ideas, information and data into compelling, impactful infographics & data-visuals. Discover how to wrap your data and information in a graphical story. Develop new techniques. Go beyond the bar chart. Join 50+ practitioners for a fun day of creati … | Continue reading
Over 1,500 entries whittled down to 60ish shortlisted works in our celebration of the global dataviz scene. Explore some of the best and most intriguing visualisations, infographics and data-driven stories of recent years. » See the shortlist | Continue reading
Our yearly celebration of the best infographics and data-visualisations from around the world is back! Now in partnership with The Data Visualisation Society, a professional home and community for those working in this discipline. If you create in this field, you may wish to subm … | Continue reading
A visual condensation of all the major research, reports, books and presentations on the subject. » See the infographic We did a lot of reading! Over 1,500 pages. key sources » Princeton: Net Zero America (345 slides) » Ameria’s Zero Carbon Action Plan (401 pages) » How to Avoid … | Continue reading
Special offer available for Amazon Prime members on Amazon today and tomorrow (12 & 13th July 2022) Get yourself 200+ hand-crafted infographics and visualisations, surfacing positive trends, uplifting stats and creative solutions to the world’s problems. » Order Beautiful News fr … | Continue reading
Heroku, Mailchimp, the Red Cross, GoDaddy, Acer, Nvidia, Brewdog and more sadly join 400+ others in our ongoing visualisation of data leaks, hacks and breaches (2022-2004) We’ve added an extra new interactive graphic – Breaches by Data Sensitivity – so you can see what kinds of r … | Continue reading
Over 30% of the world’s demand is now met by solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, bioenergy etc – and it’s increasing. But there are some caveats. » See the visualisation of country and US state data » Play with the VizSweet interactive » Review the data Source: US Energy Information … | Continue reading
Recent, selected, big big tech acquisitions – visualized. | Continue reading
Visualising the full extent of Russia’s natural gas production & exports to understand how much the European Union is tied to Russian energy. Numbers for this chart were hard to find, scattered across various news reports and PDFs. But it clearly shows why Germany – and several o … | Continue reading
An interactive list of logical fallacies & rhetorical devices with examples. In nine languages. Never be duped again! | Continue reading
200+ hand-crafted infographics and visualisations, surfacing positive trends, uplifting stats and creative solutions to the world’s problems – in handy, multi-coloured book form. The book is also full of fresh new infographic primers and visualisations which delve deeper into cer … | Continue reading