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Distribution 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.
Read moreUPDATE: Over 30 new LLMs added to our AI Large Language Model Tracker
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.
Read moreANNOUNCING: Some rare LIVE shows to celebrate our 15th anniversary this year
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.
Read moreRussia-Ukraine War – When information is NOT beautiful. Key numbers. Casualty figures. Military aid.
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.
Read moreMeta vs. Meta – How Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ modulates the company’s content moderation.
An interactive visualisation of all the cases and decisions Meta’s Oversight Board has taken between 2020 and today.
Read moreUPDATED: World’s Biggest Data Breaches – 450+ hacks in one visualisation
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)
Read moreNew Infographic Training Seminars for 2024
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives
Read moreMost Beautiful News of the Year 2023
Ending the year on a positive note, our picks of positive trends and admirable global breakthroughs of 2023.
Read moreThe Best Novels of 2023, According to 20 ‘Books of the Year’ Lists
A consensus cloud of the most mentioned novels in best-books-of-the-year polls.
Read moreUp to 50% off our beautiful books
May we humbly suggest our lush, 256 page infographic books, as potential gifts?
Read moreWhich Countries Produce the Most Oil?
And who has the largest oil reserves?
Read moreThe Information is Beautiful Fine Art Print Store
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! 😊
Read moreWorld’s Biggest and Most Notable Ransomware Attacks
An interactive graphic we’ve been curating for a couple of years detailing ~630 large or notable ransomware attacks.
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