How to Get the USA to Net Zero Carbon by 2050 – A Graphical Guide

A visual condensation of all the major research, reports, books and presentations on the subject. » See the infographic We did a lot of reading! Over 1,500 pages. key sources » Princeton: Net Zero America (345 slides) » Ameria’s Zero Carbon Action Plan (401 pages) » How to Avoid A Climate Disaster by Bill Gates (384 pages) » The Drawdown...

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Up to 40% off our new infographic book – next 48 hours

Special offer available for Amazon Prime members on Amazon today and tomorrow (12 & 13th July 2022) Get yourself 200+ hand-crafted infographics and visualisations, surfacing positive trends, uplifting stats and creative solutions to the world’s problems. » Order Beautiful News from Amazon today » See inside n.b. % discount depends on your...

Jul 2022

UPDATED: World’s Biggest Data Breaches + new data sensitivity graphic

Heroku, Mailchimp, the Red Cross, GoDaddy, Acer, Nvidia, Brewdog and more sadly join 400+ others in our ongoing visualisation of data leaks, hacks and breaches (2022-2004) We’ve added an extra new interactive graphic – Breaches by Data Sensitivity – so you can see what kinds of records have been leaked (passwords, social security numbers, medical...

Jun 2022

% Renewable Electricity by Country – Visualized!

Over 30% of the world’s demand is now met by solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, bioenergy etc – and it’s increasing. But there are some caveats. » See the visualisation of country and US state data » Play with the VizSweet interactive » Review the data Source: US Energy Information Administration (eia.gov)

May 2022

Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter acquisition in visual context

Recent, selected, big big tech acquisitions – visualized.

Apr 2022

Russian Gas – Who imports it? Who’s Dependent On it?

Visualising the full extent of Russia’s natural gas production & exports to understand how much the European Union is tied to Russian energy. Numbers for this chart were hard to find, scattered across various news reports and PDFs. But it clearly shows why Germany – and several other countries – will have a very difficult time weaning themselves...

Apr 2022

Beautiful News book US Edition – out this week

200+ hand-crafted infographics and visualisations, surfacing positive trends, uplifting stats and creative solutions to the world’s problems – in handy, multi-coloured book form. The book is also full of fresh new infographic primers and visualisations which delve deeper into certain key topics. These are designed to better arm you with context and understanding when...

Mar 2022

Ukraine-Russian War Infographics & Data Visuals

A collection of visualisations, maps and primers from around the web. We’ll keep this list updated. » Ukraine Maps: Tracking the Russian Invasion of Ukraine [New York Times] » Total Refugees from Ukraine, compared to other countries [Flowing Data] » Visualising the $13.6 billion US spend on Ukraine [New York Times] » Russian Oil – who imports...

Mar 2022

New Infographic Training Seminars for 2022

Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives » Tue 1st Feb 2022 – US timezone » Tue 1st Mar – UK/EU timezone » Streamable on-demand version also available. Our trainings are a technicolour mix of lecture, exercises, discussion & techniques, hosted by IIB founder and author, David McCandless. » See what participants say Learn...

Jan 2022

Coronavirus Most (and Least) Effective Treatments & Drugs

Visualising 28 currently-touted treatments for COVID-19, their evidence level and effectiveness. Or lack of. Main source: this excellent resource from the New York Times, plus Johns Hopkins (PDF), The Lancet and others. » See the interactive visualisation » Review the data

Jan 2022