7-way Venn
Can’t stop looking at this. Thought I would share. See it bigger here. [via]
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Punytive Damages? World’s Biggest Corporate Fines
Bad 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 moreFinal Call for Entries to our Infoviz Awards
The final entry date for our visualization awards is 31st May.
Read moreFinal Call: What Does Your Soul Look Like?
Way 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 moreChicks rule?
Back 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 moreBrian Eno to judge our $30,000 data visualization awards
So we’re running the world’s first global awards, celebrating excellence in data visualizations, infographics and information art. Yeah!
Read moreRhetological Fallacies
A brain-blending categorisation and visualisation of errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking. How many do you use?
Read more3D Infographic Projection Mapping in Grand Central Station!
Fancy seeing the world’s first 3D projection-mapped infographic animations?
Read moreHollywood Visualizations
Amazing response to our Visualise Hollywood Challenge. Just in time for the Oscars!
Read moreWho Runs the World?
Amid 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 moreHow much does Hollywood earn?
Major 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)
Read moreHollywood budgets – extended deadline
Well, our Information is Beautiful Awards challenge on movie budgets is proving more popular than a DVD of Juno on a wet afternoon.
Read moreA Taxonomy of Ideas?
Recently, when throwing ideas around with people, I’ve noticed something. There seems to be a hidden language we use when evaluating ideas.
Read moreHollywood Budgets – A $5000 Data-Viz Challenge
This might be our best dataset yet. A massive sheaf of numbers on every major Hollywood film since 2007. Their budgets, review scores, grosses, genres and profits. Just in time for the Oscars in February!
Read moreThe Top 21 Albums of 2011 from 120 Top 10 Lists
All the top-rated albums from all the top top-ten lists visualized. Try saying that with a mouthful of egg-nog.Thanks to Metacritic.com’s awesome data clumping.
Read moreInformation is Beautiful Awards: Shortlist #2
The second shortlist of amazing entries for the monthly Information is Beautiful Awards challenge is up!
Read moreScales of Devastation
I was trying to get my head around the scale of the Thailand floods. So I did.
Read moreWe’re hiring! Again!
**Applications are now closed.**If you sent one in, thank you. We’ll be in touch with shortlisted people early in the New Year.
Read moreOur second $5000 information design challenge is on!
We’ve got another pot of info-design gold to give away – and this time your work might land you on the Guardian Datablog.
Read moreAimes-tu La Datavision?
The French edition of our book – Datavision – is out. Très excitant!
Read moreWhat are the Wall St Protestors So Angry About?
Loads of people have emailed asking if we can improve the graphs on the What The Wall Street Protestors Are So Angry About megapost.
Read moreTaste Buds
A visualization of complementary flavours by David McCandless and Willow Tyrer.All food tastes amazing, just sometimes not together.
Read moreWin $3000 in our first information design competition
Your design creativity could win you $3000. Even if you can’t design.
Read moreThe Information Is Beautiful Awards
There’s so much incredible creativity and innovation in the field of data and information visualisation, we thought we might be cool to set up an awards.
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