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 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)
Read moreWell, our Information is Beautiful Awards challenge on movie budgets is proving more popular than a DVD of Juno on a wet afternoon.
Read moreRecently, when throwing ideas around with people, I’ve noticed something. There seems to be a hidden language we use when evaluating ideas.
Read moreThis 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 moreAll 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 moreThe second shortlist of amazing entries for the monthly Information is Beautiful Awards challenge is up!
Read moreI was trying to get my head around the scale of the Thailand floods. So I did.
Read more**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 moreWe’ve got another pot of info-design gold to give away – and this time your work might land you on the Guardian Datablog.
Read moreThe French edition of our book – Datavision – is out. Très excitant!
Read moreLoads of people have emailed asking if we can improve the graphs on the What The Wall Street Protestors Are So Angry About megapost.
Read moreA visualization of complementary flavours by David McCandless and Willow Tyrer.All food tastes amazing, just sometimes not together.
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