Rape: A Lack of Conviction
Today is One Billion Rising protesting violence against women and rape, world-wide.
Read moreToday is One Billion Rising protesting violence against women and rape, world-wide.
Read moreWhat were the greatest causes of death in the 20th century, our “worst century”?
Read moreAfter several months of backstage finessing, I’m super-pleased to announce our glossy new website.
Read moreA consensus cloud of 82 top 10 lists compiled by Metacritic.
Read moreWith Russian and Chinese populace gripped by fear of the 2012 Mayan apocalypse this Friday 21st 2012, we thought it might be time to update our End of The World? infographic exploring evidence from both skeptics and believers.
Read moreThere’s a new second edition of Information is Beautiful ( Amazon UK | US) out this holiday season. It features 20 new visualizations and over 20 updated infographics. I hereby pimp it.If you’ve already got a copy of the book, thank you! This is probably not a substantial enough upgrade to be worth a re-purchase.
Read moreThe recent climate change talks in Doha have emitted a gigaton of graphs, statistics and numerical predictions.
Read moreThe LOTR Project by Emil Johanssen. Statistics on the population of Middle Earth. Number of women. Average life span. Age distribution. Population demographics. Sooth! I thought was geeky…
Read moreLast night, at a packed party venue in London, we announced the winners of the inaugral Information is Beautiful Awards. Thank you to all our amazing judges, supporters, staff and our ever generous sponsors Kantar. And the biggest high-five to the 1000+ talented people who courageously entered their work.
Read morePsycho-dimensional infographic for navigating the psychotherapeutic conception of the individual self and its defences.
Read moreWe’re in the final stages voting for the winners of the Information is Beautiful Awards – and I really need your brains.The votes from the official judges votes are in – and man, it’s so tight. We’re biting our nails down to the wrist.
Read moreAre we the only intelligent, communicating civilisation in the galaxy? Tweak the statistical probabilities of the ‘Drake Equation’ and find out.A nice little interactive visualization we did for the BBC.
Read moreI’d like to invite you to review the official shortlist of the inaugural Information is Beautiful Awards.
Read moreCan’t stop looking at this. Thought I would share. See it bigger here. [via]
Read moreBad week for mega-corps. GlaxoSmithKline facing a $3 billion settlement for fraud (link) . Barclays hit with a $450 million penalty for manipulating interest rates (link).
Read moreThe final entry date for our visualization awards is 31st May.
Read moreWay back, way back in time (er 2009), we asked you to draw your souls. Just a five-minute sketch as part of a piece of interactive art.We were curious about how people perceive their ‘souls’. Hell, we could even maybe visualize a taxonomy of souls?
Read moreBack in 2010 we calculated there were 74 million more women on social networks than men. We’ve had a fresh look at the data. In the age of Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram, do chicks still rule?
Read moreSo we’re running the world’s first global awards, celebrating excellence in data visualizations, infographics and information art. Yeah!
Read moreA brain-blending categorisation and visualisation of errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking. How many do you use?
Read moreFancy seeing the world’s first 3D projection-mapped infographic animations?
Read moreAmazing response to our Visualise Hollywood Challenge. Just in time for the Oscars!
Read moreAmid collapsing currencies, financial ruin and end-days gloom, might it be useful to know who’s really steering this sinking ship?Who’s has the power? Who’s really in charge? It could be the US. Maybe the World Bank. But maybe, just maybe, it’s the SHAPESHIFTING LIZARDS!
Read moreMajor anti-online piracy laws like PIPA/SOPA and ACTA are designed to protect the intellectual property of businesses like the US movie industry. Hollywood cites yearly losses of billions of dollars to illegal internet downloads as justification for new legislation. (source, PDF)
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