Which Flu Virus?
A new deadly strain of “bird flu” – coded H7N9 – has broken out in the Shanghai area of China.
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Signed Collector’s Edition Posters – limited time only!
Due to popular demand, we’re bringing back our art prints store. But for one week only!
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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.
Read more2012: The End of the World?
With 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 moreMay I pimp the latest edition of my book?
There’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 moreHow Many Gigatons of CO2…?
The recent climate change talks in Doha have emitted a gigaton of graphs, statistics and numerical predictions.
Read moreLord of the Rings Demographics Visualized!
The 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 moreInformation is Beautiful Awards – The Results!
Last 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 moreBeing Defensive
Psycho-dimensional infographic for navigating the psychotherapeutic conception of the individual self and its defences.
Read moreI really need your help here…
We’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 moreHow Many Alien Civilizations are There in the Galaxy?
Are 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 moreAnnouncing our visualization awards shortlist…
I’d like to invite you to review the official shortlist of the inaugural Information is Beautiful Awards.
Read more7-way Venn
Can’t stop looking at this. Thought I would share. See it bigger here. [via]
Read morePunytive 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?
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