I took a visual look at the casualty figures coming out of the Afghanistan war for The Guardian. It’s part of my effort to understand what’s going on there. It’s not easy reading. But I think it helps to give some context. See what you think.
Read moreA piece exploring the myths around 2012, Mayan Prophecy, geomagnetic reversal, The Long Count, consciousness shifts, Hunab Ku, galactica alignment, the Precession Of The Equinoxes, rogue planet Nibiru, solar storms, pole shifts, timewave zero, the return of Quetzalcoatl and THE END OF THE WORLD December 21st 2012!
Read moreI’ve been doing a few interviews to promote my book, The Visual Miscellaneum, and a question keeps coming up. What makes good information design?
Read moreI’m doing a regular weekly visualisation for the excellent Guardian Datablog, the front-end for an amazing library of statistics and data, lovingly hand-gathered by The Guardian.
Read moreThe Change In Carbon EmissionsAnother beautiful viz from Good Magazine. This time by Spanish viz supremo Lamosca. Twinned with Kyoto Targets.
Read moreWould you consider pre-ordering my book? That way I can get it into more bookshops. And we can spread the good news about the amazing ALL-GRAPHIC FUTURE OF CIVILISATION THAT AWAITS US!
Read moreNEW: Limited edition signed prints of this image now available the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th).
Read moreI’ve been reading a lot about the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccine and the risk of serious side effects and even death. I thought I would seek out the numbers and put them in context. Especially given headlines claiming the HPV jab is “as deadly as the cancer” it seeks to prevent.
Read moreThanks to data gathering by Brian Solis. My data here.
Read moreThere’s a lot of talk of a new world climate agreement in Copenhagen in December to succeed Kyoto. I wondered how the signatories of the first one were doing. Make up your own mind.
Read moreI’m really loving this guy’s visualization style. And the esoteric subjects too. I’ve got a bunch of esoteria visualized in my book. Sadly, for me, I think Michael does a better job.
Read moreA few people asked for this. And I was curious about it too. So here it is. Case fatality rates for well-known diseases.
Read moreHow To Get Replies Online DatingDating site OKCupid examined which words in an opening email to women increased or decreased the chances of a reply. Hilarious and revealing.
Read moreI’m trying to create a piece of interactive art. Can you help by drawing something? It should only take 5 minutes.
Read moreThe Hierarchy of Digital Distractions
Read moreAccording to the United Nations 170,000 square kilometers of forest is destroyed each year. If we constructed solar farms at the same rate, we would be finished in 3 years.
Read moreGood Magazine is good. It’s a non-profit mag with a powerful eco-sustainability-we-can-do-this-together vibe. And when you subscribe, they give your money to charity!
Read moreWith the help of the excellent Guardian Datastore, we’ve been tracking Swine Flu (“novel H1N1 virus”) as it creeps across the globe and starts to feeds into the autumnal ‘flu season. There are some surprising results.
Read moreHere’s a visualisation of time travel plots in various films and TV programs. I had a lot of fun doing this!
Read moreRevisited If Twitter Was 100 People with some interesting new data
Read moreBillions spent on this. Billions spent on that. What does it all look like? Hopefully The Billion Dollar Gram will help.
Read moreMind-opening viz from Td Architects in Holland. I didn’t know about the Schengen ‘Wall’.
Read moreI’ve been playing with Google Insights. It’s a great toy. It measures ‘search intensity’. The number of searches being made for a certain term.
Read moreWatch out! A timeline of global media scare stories.
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