Plenty 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
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A 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.
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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.
Read moreA Decade Of Fear
What would a timeline of the world’s greatest fears look like? Like this.
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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.)
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