An interactive visualisation of key players & notable relationships in the Middle East created by David McCandless & Univers Lab. Part of the Knowledge is Beautiful project. Powered by our dataviz software VizSweet.
Read moreThat’s the sound of an author seeing their book for the first time… Just received the first physical copy of mine, Knowledge is Beautiful. Watch me ‘unbox’ it live. Will I laugh? Or cry?
Read moreGet your dataviz entries into this year’s Information is Beautiful Awards by midnight EST September 8th.
Read moreAfter 15,832 person hours of effort over two years (yes, I tracked them), I would like to announce the completion of my new infographic ultra tome, Knowledge is Beautiful.
Read moreAn interactive visualisation of every major commercial passenger plane crash of the last 20 years.
Read moreSunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? Taliban? ISIS? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam.
Read moreA lot of fear and furore around the increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. We took a look at the numbers.
Read moreI got stuck visualising a dataset for my new book, Knowledge is Beautiful (US & UK). I wondered if you could help?
Read moreWhat romantic relationship advice do twenty five popular guides agree upon? A visualisation of romantic wisdom.
Read moreLooking forward to this year? Why not look forward to the next 5 QUILLION years?
Read moreAmazing competition. Incredible entries. Sterling judges. Great ceremony. Big thanks to everyone who to entered their work. Congratulations to the winners. See you next year.
Read moreLots of talk of “millions of lines of code” circulating.
Read moreWant to see some of the best data-visualizations of the last year? Need inspiration for your data-design work? Fancy having your mind-grapes blended into psychedelic slurry?
Read moreDo any so-called “Superfoods” really have super powers?
Read moreOur global data-visualisation awards is gathering pace. Entries coming in thick and fast. Over $25,000 in prize money to give away.
Read more2013 is proving to be an amazing year for data-visualization.
Read moreThis weekend, Apple’s developer site was hacked. 275,000 logins, passwords and other records potentially compromised. Two days before that, popular open-source operating system Ubuntu had its forums hacked. 1.82 million records stolen.
Read moreWe’re about to kickstart this year’s global data-visualisation awards!Last year was a great success. Over 1,000 entries from around the world. $30,000 in cash prizes (thanks to beloved sponsor Kantar). Eye-popping creativity and diversity. Hell, even Brian Eno stopped by to judge. We had a ton of fun.
Read moreWith news of $billion-dollar tax evasions joining $billion-dollar bailouts and $trillion dollar deficits in the mind-boggled group mind, we thought it might be a good time to update the Billion Dollar-o-Gram.
Read moreA new deadly strain of “bird flu” – coded H7N9 – has broken out in the Shanghai area of China.
Read moreDue to popular demand, we’re bringing back our art prints store. But for one week only!
Read moreAs promised, our visualization of the major causes of death in the 20th Century – from disease to murder to mudslides.
Read moreToday is One Billion Rising protesting violence against women and rape, world-wide.
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