A Taxonomy of Hipster Coffee Shop Names
The hidden taxonomy of hipster coffee shop names. LDN edition.
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Oil Well
Almond? Olive? Sunflower? Which is the ultimate cooking oil?
Read moreWorkshops are Beautiful San Francisco
Information is Beautiful founder David McCandless shares his method & process for great dataviz in San Francisco on Monday July 27th.
Read moreWhat Makes A Good Data Visualization?
I’ve created a lot of data and information visualizations. Around 540 over six years.
Read moreThe Internet of Things – A Primer
By the year 2020, over 26 billion things – cars, coffee machines, even cows – will be connected to the internet.
Read moreHow Much Do Musicians Earn Online – 2015 Remix
Are digital music streaming services fair to artists?
Read moreWorkshops are Beautiful? Learn our dataviz process
Fancy learning to be a data-viz ninja?
Read moreWhat is Meditation / Mindfulness good for?
Big buzz about the ancient practices of meditation and mindfulness. Now cited to improve everything from stress & depression to binge-eating and appreciation of music.
Read moreWe’re hiring interns
Exciting year ahead for Information is Beautiful. So we’re on the lookout for a Data Research Intern who’s inquisitive, quick and handy with a spreadsheet.
Read moreCause Célèbre – Gender Split behind Celebrity Charity Work
At this time of giving and reflection, we wondered what might influence the choice of causes we support.
Read moreYour holiday drinks sorted: 78 delicious cocktail recipes, 1 glorious viz
78 classic cocktail recipes from the International Bartender’s Association’s list of drinks every bartender should know.
Read moreNon-Fiction Books Everyone Should Read – Interactive
Which books in fiction and non-fiction are an absolute must-read? We scraped data from respected awards, literary supplements & book review sites to create two interactive consensus clouds:
Read moreDiversity in Tech – Visualized
In response to a clarion call for diversity figures, many tech companies have released figures on the gender and ethnicity of their workforces. Facebook were first, quickly followed by Google and Yahoo. Several more giants of tech have followed.
Read moreWho Rules the Social Web?
We’ve updated our 2012 chart and data depicting the gender balance of various social networks.AnalysisSome findings, compared with the 2012 version of the graphic.
Read moreBest in Show? What’s the top data dog?
If you look at the numbers on intelligence, longevity, congenital ailments and so on, which canine comes out as top data-dog?
Read moreInformation is Beautiful Awards 2014 – The Results Are In
Last night’s third annual Information is Beautiful Awards celebrated dataviz at its most dazzling. Hundreds of entries were trimmed to a razor-sharp pack of outstandingly illuminating infographics, over which our judges deliberated long and hard. Now, with thanks to our generous sponsors Kantar, we present the winners.
Read moreWhat Powers the Sudden Legalization of Cannabis in the US?
This week, Oregon, Alaska and Washington D.C. joined Colorado and Washington State on the list of US states to legalize or decriminalize cannabis (marijuana).
Read moreInvest in Knowledge is Beautiful!
Exciting news! The US edition of our latest, lovely, lush infographic book, Knowledge is Beautiful, is out today. A collection of 196 of our best visualisations and a personal two year labour of love and intricate graphisme.
Read moreFeast on some of the world’s best data-visualisations & infographics of 2014
We’ve unleashed the long- and short-lists for the 2014 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards.
Read moreThe Microbe-scope – Comparing infectious diseases
A quick visualisation comparing infectiousness & deadliness of the major pathogens, including Ebola.
Read moreCommon Mythconceptions – World’s Most Contagious Falsehoods
A fun one for a Friday. Some of our most common myths & misconceptions.
Read moreWe’re Hiring! 1x writer, 1x designer
Rare opportunity to join our beautiful team.
Read moreKnowledge is Beautiful UK edition – out today
Knowledge is Beautiful: 196 new hand-crafted infographics and visualisations, free-ranging across many subjects areas: science, power, money, health, film, space, art, thought. Each with their own unique dataset available online. Enjoy!
Read moreRhetological Fallacies? Falacias Retologicas? Retorikai Felrevezetesek??
Remember our Rhetological Fallacies graphic? An index of most common errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking. It’s one of the most popular pages on Information is Beautiful ever.
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