Happy 15th Birthday
Happy 15th birthday to my beautiful book. Released today 4th Feb 2009.
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Information is Beautiful Awards: Entries Closing Today
Last chance to enter our yearly awards and for a chance to win big from our $20,000+ prize pot.
Read moreEnter the Information is Beautiful Awards 2025
Our yearly celebration of the best infographics and data-visualisations from around the world is back for 2023! Now in its eleventh year and in association with The Data Visualisation Society, a professional home and community for those working in this discipline.
Read moreWhat a wonderful world it could be…
Wait, CORRECTION: “is already”.
Read moreNew Infographic Training Seminars for 2025
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives
Read moreMost Beautiful News of the Year 2024
Ending the year on a positive note, our picks of positive trends and admirable global breakthroughs of 2024.
Read moreUp to 60% off our beautiful books
May we humbly suggest our lush, 256 page infographic books, as potential gifts?
Read moreDataviz of the Month – Nov 24
CREATED BY US» Latest AI LLM’s ranked by performance (MMLU)
Read moreTech predictions made 15 years ago – how many stand up?
We made this graphical timeline back in 2009 for our book Information is Beautiful using predictions made by experts at longbets.org (a proto prediction market of the time).
Read moreIntroducing the Information is Beautiful Print Store
Our new online store where you can buy high-quality art prints and canvases of our most popular infographics & visualizations as well as downloadable trainings.
Read moremajor AI Large Language Models (LLMs) ranked by capabilities (MMLU)
A visualisation of major large-language models (LLMs), ranked by performance, using MMLU (Massive Multitasks Language Understanding) a benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of large language models.
Read moreDataviz of the Month – Sep 2024
CREATED BY US» Water World – where is all the water in all the world?» Per Second – interesting frequencies / cycles / rates / vibrations per second» The Information is Beautiful Art Print Store – order high quality wall art of some of our most popular infographics & visualisations
Read morePer Second – Vibrations / Cycles / Waves / Rate / Frequency
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Read moreDistribution of all the water in all the world
One of our favourite images from the book Knowledge is Beautiful by David McCandless (HarperCollins 2014)
Read moreNew workshop dates. Rare in-person session. Introducing two half days format and new data-storytelling component
Announcing special workshops and trainings to celebrate our 15th anniversary.
Read moreDataviz of the Month – Jun / July 2024
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.
Read moreThis website / blog is 15 years old this week. Thank you all for following!
Just wanted to mark the occasion.
Read moreOur LIVE shows coming the USA this summer
To celebrate 15 years of Information is Beautiful this summer, we’re hosting a series of rare and exclusive live performances, in-person and online.
Read moreDataviz of the Month – May 2024
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.
Read moreMost Common PIN numbers
Chip and PIN card, phone passcode, hotel safe – how predictable is your chosen PIN number?
Read moreThe Great Plastic Megagraphic
Plastics are deeply woven into our societies, our supply chains, our lives, our possessions, even our bodies. Runaway plastic pollution and waste is the other great environmental crisis facing our civilisation.
Read moreShare Your Thoughts, Win One of Our Books!
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.
Read moreNew workshop dates. Rare in-person session. Introducing two half days format.
We are announcing special workshops and trainings to celebrate our 15th anniversary.
Read moreDataviz of the Month – March 2024
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.
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