A Decade Of Fear
What would a timeline of the world’s greatest fears look like? Like this.
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Debtris
Our first animation. Enjoy!
Read moreLa Información es Bella
I wanted to say a grateful, heartfelt thank you to everyone who has bought my book this year. It’s been doing really well. Thank you!
Read moreVisualizing Bloodtests
We were happy to win a design competition in Wired US this month.
Read moreHigh Society
Unique times require unique thinking, right? We’re under the cosh here in the UK with unprecendented public cuts and austerity measures. Is there a potential revenue stream we’re missing? One right under our noses? One that could solve the university tuition fees crisis? And leave around £75M left for a very, very good party…
Read moreGoogle NGram
With Google’s new tool Ngram Viewer, you can visualise the rise and fall of concepts across 5 million books and 500 years!
Read moreData, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom?
Just a think-piece really.
Read moreVitamin D
Ever since doing Snake Oil visualization, I’ve become a little obsessed with optimising my diet. Hey – what else is there to do on a winter evening? Strange thing. Vitamin D keeps popping up in all kinds of research. Evidence seems to be growing for its extensive potential role in health, cancer prevention and even mental health and mood.
Read moreThe Science Behind Wikipedia’s Jimmy Appeal
Seen the latest banner ads on Wikipedia appealing for donations?
Read morePeak Break-Up Times On Facebook
An image myself and Lee Byron created in 2008 for The Visual Miscellaneum using Facebook status updates. (The follow-up book Knowledge is Beautiful is out now.)
Read moreThe Varieties of Intimate Relationship
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Read moreThe True Size Of Africa
Brilliant infographic from Kai Krause (perhaps the Kai Krause?) to combat rampant ‘immappancy’
Read moreFOUR GREAT INFOGRAPHICS No. 9
Dataflow 2 is a collection of the latest data visualizations and information graphics sprouting from the fledgling infoviz scene. Everything’s here: computational art, newspaper infographics, academic spidergrams. Although there is a strange absence of work from Information Is Beautiful. Grump!
Read moreTerror Alerts vs Elections
Accusations today over the timings of terror alerts and elections.
Read moreYou’ve Been Quango’ed
The UK has over 1000 quangos (quasi-autonomous non-government organisations). Many will be nixed in the next wave of government austerity measures. Discover the biggest and the ones for whom the bell tolls..
Read moreWho’s Suing Whom In The Telecoms Trade?
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Read moreUpdates Are Beautiful No 2
We’ve been working on some under-the-hood updates on the site and content. Here they are:
Read moreThe UK Tax Gap Visualized
The Tax Gap is the difference between tax collected and the potential tax out there.
Read moreThe Beauty Of Data Visualization
Here’s a recent talk I gave at TED Global Oxford about my passion for data visualization and information design.Here’s the page on TED.com if the video isn’t working for you. It’s also on YouTube. Enjoy!
Read moreHow Many Times Has Dr Who Travelled In Time?
Every single Dr Who journey ever. Crowdsourced ultra-geek dataset for The Guardian.
Read morePseudovariety in Soft Drinks
Three firms own 89% of your sugar water.
Read moreWikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars
Articles of War
Read moreHacking India Is Beautiful
This week, I was lucky enough to accompany UK Prime Minister’s delegation to India as part of contingent of ‘hackers’ and civic-minded dataheads. We did a hack day with some of India’s leading developers and visualizers.
Read moreCognitive Surplus visualized
I was listening to writer Clay Shirky talk about cognitive surplus – the idea of spare brainpower in the world’s collective mind just sitting there waiting, wanting, to be harnessed.He had a stand-out statistic that snagged my mind. I thought I would visualise it.
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