What 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.
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Taste 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
Read moreRadiation Dosage Chart
Sorry this is so late. I just came back from holiday to an inbox full of requests to render up a Radiation Dosage chart.
Read moreWhat Is Consciousness?
Make up your own mind.Let’s see how many pan-psychic emergent dualists there are lurking in Asia, shall we?
Read moreBooks Everyone Should Read
A “consensus-cloud” of most mentioned titles from various book polls & top 100 lists. For The Guardian.
Read moreVintage InfoPorn No.1
My conceit, when I started making infographics, was simple. I believed this was a *new way* of expressing and visualizing information, a thoroughly modern and zeitgeisty fusion of data and design. Oh you muppet David…
Read moreLearning How To Visualize
Been getting a ton of requests for ‘how to’s and guides for creating decent visualizations and information designs. Made me think: maybe I could do some workshops in this area. I like developing ideas and working with people. Could be fun!
Read moreHoroscoped
Do horoscopes really all just say the same thing? We scraped & analysed 22,000 to see.
Read moreHow much carbon…
How much CO2 is created by a banana? A wedding? A flight to New York? We teamed up with GE to turn ‘tons of carbon’ into an interactive visual landscape.
Read more8 GREAT INFOGRAPHICS No.11
Great work out there. I’m a bit behind so I’m giving you a double dose of great infographics.
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