Enjoy our visualization work? Seen our interactives? Loving Beautiful News?

Tickets are selling fast for our London workshop on 14 January 2020.

David McCandless, founder of Information is Beautiful, offers you training on his concept-driven process and method for creating successful, impactful and memorable dataviz and infographics.

Participants have described our workshops as “awesome”, and “amazing” (check out more attendee feedback).

We’ll also be in Canada in April 2020. Sign up to our notification list to be the first to find out when tickets are on sale for Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa.

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Huge congratulations to the ingenious, insightful and inspiring winners of 2019’s Information is Beautiful Awards – a celebration of the world’s best data visualizations and infographics.

Here’s the full list of all 37 winners

A truly vintage year 2019. An amazingly varied shortlist. Deserved winners. Thanks to all our esteemed judges and our beloved sponsor Kantar for supporting us for 8 years.

UK election time and all parties, as per usual, are blasting £BILLIONS into the headlines.

Here’s some fresh visualized context for those numbers. Created by @vizsweet.

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Fast-growing kelp forests can deliver biofuels, biofertilizer, animal feed additives, and even tasty, nutritious food – while sucking carbon out of the atmosphere in the process.

To create this all-encompassing explainer on the benefits of seaweed, we spoke to scientific experts and reviewed all of the latest reports and research.

» Check out our findings
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We’ve just quietly launched something.

It’s called Beautiful News.

It surfaces and visualises all the amazing things happening in the world. The things we don’t see because we’re fixated on the drama and horror of the news.

It’s been a year in the making – research, visualisation and design. And it will gently unfold over this coming year – a chart a day.

Stay tuned on your preferred channel: Email, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

What’s the world’s largest power plant? How does solar compare to nuclear, coal and gas? How much of the world’s renewable energy potential are we using?

Understanding the world’s energy systems isn’t easy, so we’ve made it a little simpler with this ranking of the world’s biggest and most notable power plants.

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A filterable chart of dataviz books that we think everyone should read.

We excluded books about specific tools or programming concepts, but you’ll find them in the full datasheet.

Crowdsourced with the help of the Data Visualization Society

Did we miss any? Send a suggestion.

» Check out our recommendations

I’ve been vegetarian for 26 years. Never managed to make the leap to vegan though. Cheese and eggs. Cheese and eggs. I’m working on it.

Here’s my motivational breakdown:

It’s been interesting to witness the abrupt mainstreaming of vegan and plant-based diets in recent years. But less interesting to have so many friends suddenly start lecturing me how cruel the meat industry is, how unhealthy red meat is, how environmentally damaging. Thank! You!

More striking is the amount of people who’ve said:

“Have you seen it? What the Health? The vegan documentary on Netflix. OMG. You gotta see it.”

So I did. I watched the What The Health documentary on Netflix, directed by Kip Andersen (sorry, SEO).

It is powerful, moving and shocking without being gory or alienating. But my journalistic spidey-sense started pulsing as I watched it. It’s kinda too powerful. Too certain of itself. Too sure. Some of the facts raised the BS-detecting hairs on the back of my neck.

So I gathered the team and we dove in to produce an interactive scene-by-scene, fact-by-fact visual analysis of the documentary. Have a play to see how true the film is.

SPOILER: it’s a mix. Classic misinformation-age / post-truth fare. There’s chunks of truth, some misleading facts, a few outright falsehoods, some very old science, some recent science. All intermixed. Blended into a modern smoothie. Tastes good, feels healthy, but who knows what’s hidden in the ingredients list?

Well, we do now.

It’s saddening because the scientific evidence is in, and vegans are right. Plant-based diets are a choice for good – health, emissions, animal welfare, land use, kindness. Every way you look at it, vegans, you are ethically correct. So please – there’s no need to lie.

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