Enter our $50,000 Dataviz Challenge

We’ve launched a creative dataviz challenge in partnership with the World Government Summit. We’re supplying the datasets and concepts. You provide data-visualizations, infographics or interactives that tell a story or reveal something interesting about the data. The theme is past, present and future – of society, of governments, of populations....

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$$$Billions

Updated our Billion-Dollar-O-Gram of billion amounts taken from headlines with 2022 data. » see the graphic » review the data

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20 Most Beautiful News Stories of 2022

Starting the year on an optimistic note. Our favourite Beautiful News stories from 2022, highlighting special achievements, admirable breakthroughs and positive trends. » All in one interactive graphic. » See the data and sources » Here’s last year’s

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Announcing the World Data Visualization Prize 2023 – A $50K Creative Challenge

We’re launching a creative dataviz challenge in partnership with the World Government Summit. (A little something to keep your creative neurons firing over the holidays.) We’re supplying the datasets and concepts. You provide data-visualizations, infographics or interactives that tell a story or reveal something interesting about the data. We...

Dec 2022

Our first in-person workshop for years: London Mon Nov 21st 2022

Come learn how to turn numbers, ideas, information and data into compelling, impactful infographics & data-visuals. Discover how to wrap your data and information in a graphical story. Develop new techniques. Go beyond the bar chart. Join 50+ practitioners for a fun day of creativity, data and concepts + hangout and networking afterwards. ...

Nov 2022

Announcing: The Information is Beautiful Shortlist 2022

Over 1,500 entries whittled down to 60ish shortlisted works in our celebration of the global dataviz scene. Explore some of the best and most intriguing visualisations, infographics and data-driven stories of recent years. » See the shortlist

Nov 2022

Our Last Impactful Infographic Seminars for 2022

A couple more of our fun online intensives » Mon Nov 21st 2022 – in-person, London UK » Tue Dec 6th 2022 – virtual, US timezone Our trainings are a technicolour mix of lecture, exercises, discussion & techniques, hosted by IIB founder and author, David McCandless. » See what participants say Learn how to approach data-visualisation and...

Nov 2022

Enter the Information is Beautiful Awards 2022 – it’s back

Our yearly celebration of the best infographics and data-visualisations from around the world is back! Now in partnership with The Data Visualisation Society, a professional home and community for those working in this discipline. If you create in this field, you may wish to submit your work. We welcome entries of any type: infographics, data journalism,...

Sep 2022

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...

Aug 2022

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