A 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.
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Hollywood 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.
Read moreHierarchy of Digital Distractions @ MoMA
Very honoured that the Hierarchy of Digital Distractions features in the latest exhibition at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York.
Read moreLeft vs Right v1.5
An update of our fabled Left vs Right concept map. Written and art-directed by David McCandless. Designed by Stefanie Posavec.
Read moreIs The HPV Vaccine Safe? v2.0
Remember a couple years ago when there was a big kick-off about the safety of the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Vaccine?
Read moreThe Sunscreen Smokescreen
It started with a question. It always does. This time, the question was simple: How much sunscreen should I wear?
Read moreWhich Fish Are Okay To Eat?
Over-exploitation. Destructive fishing techniques. Polluting fish farms. If you want to eat ethically, which fish are actually fine for your fork?
Read moreGreat Infographics No. 13
How Much Gas Is Left?Natural gas – how much is left, who’s got it and how supplies oddly mirror certain geo-politic tensions. Another little interactive visual of ours.
Read morePlenty More Fish In The Sea?
A visualization of the state of Atlantic fish stocks past and present for The Guardian. Commissioned by The Pew Charitable Trusts as part of European Fish Week
Read moreA Better Life Index
Nicely done visualization and enlightening of OECD stats by Moritz Stefaner and co.
Read moreSnake Oil version 2
We’ve updated SnakeOil, our interactive “balloon race” visualization of the scientific evidence for over 100 nutritional supplements.
Read moreWe’re Hiring!
Want to come and work for Information Is Beautiful? Get in.
Read moreMost Common Words In Toy Adverts
Most common words in toy adverts, split by gender. From The Achilles Effect.
Read moreGreat Infographics No.12
The RH Foundation Really nice interactive viz tracking various funds donated by the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation. A great example of essentially very dry data given life by visualization. Shame the bubbles are not scaled according to the size of the awards. But gorgeous design from movingbrands.com.How your mobile phone is basically the ultimate tracking device German Green Party MP Malte Spitz sued Deutsche Telekom to release 6 months of mobile phone records. A scary viz of the results from Die Zeit.Flowering emotion A lovely redraw of Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions. Not sure I agree with Plutchik’s structures (interest-anticipation-vigilance?) – but it’s an intriguing symbol to contemplate. Redrawn by Shell Greenier..Plant Companions Which plants grow well together and protect each other. Pretty viz from New Scientist. Graphiked Grafixnige.892 Ways to Partition a 3 x4 Grid For nerds only, I warn you. Here’s one for non-nerds to balance it out.Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule What good have I done today? Via Nick Bilton.» See our previous great infographics» Follow our finds as we find them on Google Reader or follow @infobeautiful on Twitter» Send good stuff you find over here
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