Blog — Information is Beautiful (2025)

Per Second – Vibrations / Cycles / Waves / Rate / Frequency » see the data Read more

Distribution of all the water in all the world One of our favourite images from the book Knowledge is Beautiful by David McCandless (HarperCollins 2014) Read more

New workshop dates. Rare in-person session. Introducing two half days format and new data-storytelling component Announcing special workshops and trainings to celebrate our 15th anniversary. Read more

Dataviz of the Month – Jun / July 2024 Every month we pick and share some of our favourite infographics, visualisations and data stories. Here’s what we found in our work folders and around the web. Read more

This website / blog is 15 years old this week. Thank you all for following! Just wanted to mark the occasion. Read more

Our LIVE shows coming the USA this summer To celebrate 15 years of Information is Beautiful this summer, we’re hosting a series of rare and exclusive live performances, in-person and online. Read more

Dataviz of the Month – May 2024 Every month we pick and share some of our favourite infographics, visualisations and data stories. Here’s what we found in our work folders and around the web. Read more

Most Common PIN numbers Chip and PIN card, phone passcode, hotel safe – how predictable is your chosen PIN number? Read more

The Great Plastic Megagraphic Plastics are deeply woven into our societies, our supply chains, our lives, our possessions, even our bodies. Runaway plastic pollution and waste is the other great environmental crisis facing our civilisation. Read more

Share Your Thoughts, Win One of Our Books! It’s our 15th anniversary this year and we’d love to hear about you: who you are, why you follow us, what you like, what you don’t, what you value and how you interact with us and anyone else in the infosphere. Read more

New workshop dates. Rare in-person session. Introducing two half days format. We are announcing special workshops and trainings to celebrate our 15th anniversary. Read more

Dataviz of the Month – March 2024 Every month we pick and share some of our favourite infographics, visualisations and data stories. Here’s what we found in our work folders and around the web. Read more

UPDATE: Over 30 new LLMs added to our AI Large Language Model Tracker We’ve updated our interactive LLM tracker with 30 new and notable LLMs including Anthropic Claude 3, Twitter’s Grok, all Mistral’s offerings, Google Gemini Pro, Apple’s MM1 (finally!) and Chinese LLMs like DeepSeek, GLM-4 and Xinghuo 3.5. Read more

ANNOUNCING: Some rare LIVE shows to celebrate our 15th anniversary this year To celebrate 15 years of Information is Beautiful this June, we’re hosting a series of rare and exclusive live performances in London, San Francisco, LA and potentially other cities – plus some virtual events for global timezones. Read more

Russia-Ukraine War – When information is NOT beautiful. Key numbers. Casualty figures. Military aid. Two years into the conflict this infographic data story reveals some of the harsh, hidden numbers around casualties, military budgets and foreign aid in the Russia-Ukraine war. Read more

Meta vs. Meta – How Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ modulates the company’s content moderation. An interactive visualisation of all the cases and decisions Meta’s Oversight Board has taken between 2020 and today. Read more

UPDATED: World’s Biggest Data Breaches – 450+ hacks in one visualisation 23andMe, Xfinity, X/Twitter and the Indonesian people (yes all of them) – are among the latest victims listed in our ongoing visualisation of data leaks, hacks and breaches (2023-2004) Read more

New Infographic Training Seminars for 2024 Announcing a new season ofour fun online intensives Read more

Most Beautiful News of the Year 2023 Ending the year on a positive note, our picks of positive trends and admirable global breakthroughs of 2023. Read more

The Best Novels of 2023, According to 20 ‘Books of the Year’ Lists A consensus cloud of themost mentioned novels in best-books-of-the-year polls. Read more

Up to 50% off our beautiful books May we humbly suggest our lush, 256 page infographic books, as potential gifts? Read more

Which Countries Produce the Most Oil? And who has the largest oil reserves? Read more

The Information is Beautiful Fine Art Print Store We’ve finally opened an art-print store. It’s been 10 years since we last sold posters of our #infographic works. So technically everything there is limited edition! 😊 Read more

World’s Biggest and Most Notable Ransomware Attacks An interactive graphic we’ve been curating for a couple of years detailing ~630 large or notable ransomware attacks. Read more

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References

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