Knowledge is Beautiful, my new book
After 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.
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Flight Risk – Every Major Commercial Plane Crash of the Last 20 Years
An interactive visualisation of every major commercial passenger plane crash of the last 20 years.
Read moreIslamic Sects, Schools, Branches & Movements
Sunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? Taliban? ISIS? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam.
Read moreAntibiotic Resistance
A lot of fear and furore around the increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. We took a look at the numbers.
Read more$5000 Dataviz Challenge: Design a Page of My New Book
I got stuck visualising a dataset for my new book, Knowledge is Beautiful (US & UK). I wondered if you could help?
Read moreGood Relationtips – Most Commonly Given Relationship Advice
What romantic relationship advice do twenty five popular guides agree upon? A visualisation of romantic wisdom.
Read moreTimeline of the Far Future
Looking forward to this year? Why not look forward to the next 5 QUILLION years?
Read moreInformation is Beautiful Awards 2013 – The Winners
Amazing 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 more“Millions of lines of code”
Lots of talk of “millions of lines of code” circulating.
Read moreOver 300 of the best data-visualizations & infographics in one sheer wall of inspiration…
Want 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 moreSnake Oil Superfoods
Do any so-called “Superfoods” really have super powers?
Read moreInformation is Beautiful Awards: The judges…
Our global data-visualisation awards is gathering pace. Entries coming in thick and fast. Over $25,000 in prize money to give away.
Read moreInformation is Beautiful Awards 2013 – Call for Entries!
2013 is proving to be an amazing year for data-visualization.
Read moreWorld’s Biggest Data Breaches
This 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 moreThe Information is Beautiful Awards 2013
We’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 moreBillion Dollar O Gram-2013
With 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 moreWhich Flu Virus?
A new deadly strain of “bird flu” – coded H7N9 – has broken out in the Shanghai area of China.
Read moreSigned Collector’s Edition Posters – limited time only!
Due to popular demand, we’re bringing back our art prints store. But for one week only!
Read moreWe’re hiring! Rare opportunity to join our team. Click for more.
Read more20th Century Death
As promised, our visualization of the major causes of death in the 20th Century – from disease to murder to mudslides.
Read moreRape: A Lack of Conviction
Today is One Billion Rising protesting violence against women and rape, world-wide.
Read moreThe Data of Death – A Visualization
What were the greatest causes of death in the 20th century, our “worst century”?
Read moreWelcome to Our New Website
After several months of backstage finessing, I’m super-pleased to announce our glossy new website.
Read moreThe Top Albums of 2012
A consensus cloud of 82 top 10 lists compiled by Metacritic.
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