Who wins the IIB Awards 2017? You decide.
Gorge your eyes, intellect and imagination on the year’s most brilliant visualizations & infographics. Then help decide who wins $20k and our community prize.
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Tooth & Law
What’s Halal? What’s Kosher? What’s both? And what’s the relationship to tastiness?
Read moreThe best dataviz & infographics of the year: the Information is Beautiful Awards Longlist 2017
With more entries from more countries than ever before, it’s been a vintage year for our celebration of the world’s finest dataviz & infographics.
Read moreLast call to enter the Information is Beautiful Awards 2017
Visualizers, designers, truth & beauty-lovers. Last call to enter the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2017, celebrating the world’s most excellent graphics & visualizations of data, information & knowledge.
Read moreThe UK’s #Brexit Options in the Eurozone complex – visualized!
The Eurozone? The European Economic Area? The European Free-Trade Area? The European Customs Union? Whaaat?
Read moreAnnouncing the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2017
The Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2017 is now open, celebrating the world’s most excellent information design.
Read moreWhat Streaming Music Services Pay
Spotify. Apple. Pandora. Compared & visualized.
Read moreWe’re hiring
Two rare and excellent freelance posts have opened up at IIB:
Read moreUK Government Spending: Incomes & Outcomes
Election time again in the UK. All sides broadcasting assertive pledges backed by hazy figures.
Read moreThe Mavericks & Heretics of Science
Meet 40 mavericks & heretics of science whose “crackpot” ideas were proven correct. Eventually.
Read moreBased on a *True* True Story? Oscars edition
Oscar-nominated Hacksaw Ridge, Hidden Figures & Lion are all “based on true events”. But which is truly the truest of them all?
Read moreHans Rosling – the World’s Greatest Data-Storyteller
Very sad to hear that Hans Rosling has passed away. Such a grand ninja of dataviz. His spectacular talks convinced me that data stories could be enlightening, illuminating, and entertaining – all at the same time.
Read moreInternational Number Ones
Because every country is the best at something – if you look hard enough for the data.
Read moreThe Best Dataviz of the Year: The IIB Awards Winners 2016
Check out the winners of the Information is Beautiful Awards 2016.Tough contest. Some of the best work we’ve seen in the last five years.
Read moreHelp pick the 2016 IIB Awards winners
For the year’s most eye-sizzling, thought-provoking data visualizations & infographics, check out the 2016 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards shortlist.
Read moreLonglist announced: the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2016
More entries than ever before in the 2016 edition of our global dataviz awards.
Read moreInformation is Beautiful 7th Anniversary “Micro-Retro-Edition”
For just $1.99 US or £1.49 UK own a special retro Kindle edition of our first infographic book, Information is Beautiful. (published as the Visual Miscellaneum in the US)
Read moreSenseless – Conflict Deaths Per Hour
Some of the most brutal and senseless conflicts go unseen and unremembered. Yet many give cause & context for modern events.
Read moreNow open: the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2016
Announcing the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2016, celebrating the year’s most awesome data-visualization & infographics from around the world.
Read moreWhat is Meditation / Mindfulness Good For?
What is Meditation / Mindfulness? How do you do it? What’s the best method? How effective is it, according to the latest science?
Read moreOur 2016 Workshops season: Learn to do Dataviz
Information is Beautiful founder David McCandless shares with you his dataviz method & process, tips & techniques, at Workshops are Beautiful:» New York Jun 14th (sold out)» San Francisco Jun 23rd» London Sep 22nd
Read moreThe Hollywood In$ider – Data on every major movie, visualized!
An interactive data explorer for slicing and dicing data on over 1000 major Hollywood films of the last eight years.
Read moreBased on a *True* True Story?
Visually explore your favourite “based on a true story” movies, scene-by-scene, beat-by-beat and test their veracity on a data level.
Read moreInformation is Beautiful’s Most Popular Dataviz of 2015
As 2015 comes to an end, have a dataviz reminisce with our most popular pieces this year.
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