Remember a couple years ago when there was a big kick-off about the safety of the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Vaccine? The virus causes 99.7% of all cases of cervical cancer – the second deadliest for women, after breast cancer. But some concern sprang up around the safety of the jab. This was inflamed by the [...]
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It started with a question. It always does. This time, the question was simple: How much sunscreen should I wear? I’m a pale geek who burns. I wanted to know the optimal. A simple question with a simple answer, right? Wrong. This simple question took me on a massive journey through the data, information myths [...]
Over-exploitation. Destructive fishing techniques. Polluting fish farms. If you want to eat ethically, which fish are actually fine for your fork? My latest image for The Guardian Datablog pools and visualises the latest research from the Marine Conservation Society (PDF), Greenpeace and the SeaFood Watch. » See the graphic » See the data: http://www.bit.ly/whichfish » [...]
How Much Gas Is Left? Natural gas – how much is left, who’s got it and how supplies oddly mirror certain geo-politic tensions. Another little interactive visual of ours. Acting Out Is recycling the new typecasting? This visualisation maps HBO’s usage of the same bunch of actors across their series. . Twin it with the [...]
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 » See the vizualisation on The Guardian Datablog » Find out more about fish week and see more visualisations at http://ocean2012.eu/ (Oh, I also made an animated version) [...]
Nicely done visualization and enlightening of OECD stats by Moritz Stefaner and co.
We’ve updated SnakeOil, our interactive “balloon race” visualization of the scientific evidence for over 100 nutritional supplements. This Flash app coded by the awesome Andy Perkins is generated from the data in this spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/SnakeOil2 – lovingly curated by researcher Miriam Quick. What Have We Done? We’ve revised the data from top to bottom. That [...]
Want to come and work for Information Is Beautiful? Get in. Designer – Are you an all-rounder with a perfectionist slant who loves infographics and visualisations and all things beautiful? Editor for InformationIsBeautiful.net – Savvy? Brainy? Designery? Do you want to write, edit and manage this website with that brain of yours?? Editor for awesome [...]
Most common words in toy adverts, split by gender. From The Achilles Effect.
Unsurprising results – but still worth tutting over.
See them rendered in Wordle too – boys & girls.
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 [...]
Sorry this is so late. I just came back from holiday to an inbox full of requests to render up a Radiation Dosage chart. Personally, I think XKCD has done a great job already. But I am here to serve. Hopefully our chart will also help counter some of the confusion circulating about radiation and [...]
Make up your own mind.
Let’s see how many pan-psychic emergent dualists there are lurking in Asia, shall we?
Research, words & design: David McCandless
Illustration: Jez Burrows & Lindsay Noble
Interactive design & code: Joshua …
A “consensus-cloud” of most mentioned titles from various book polls & top 100 lists. For The Guardian. An updated version from my book. Data and analysis here: http://bit.ly/BooksEveryone If you likee, you can purchase a print-it-yourself high-quality PDF in our store. DESIGN: David McCandless RESEARCH: Miriam Quick ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock SELECTED SOURCES: UK’s Most [...]
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. 1900s These infographics were created by students of American African-American activist W.E.Dubois in 1902. They’re so modern looking! Right down [...]
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! So if you think you’d like to attend a workshop on visualization or organize [...]
