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...

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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

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Most Beautiful News of the Year

21 positive trends & amazing achievements from 2021 you may not have read about – in one interactive graphic. » See the graphic » part of our Beautiful News project

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Novels of the Year, Fiction Everyone Should Read, Best Dataviz Books

Our ‘consensus clouds’ gather data from major best-of lists & book polls and visualise the highly rated. » Best Novels of the Year (data) » Novels Everyone Should Read (data) » Best Dataviz Books » More graphics about arts & culture

Dec 2021

Every Country is the Most Beautiful at Something

We found something positive, progressive or awesome for nearly every single country. The first to do something beautiful…the most excellent…or just the world leader for something “nice!”. » See what beautiful thing your country can be celebrated for » Check out the data for the full nation list & extra factoids » Play with the fun interactive...

Dec 2021

Food Waste – A Big Climate Problem We Can Actually Solve

If food waste was a country, it’d be the fourth biggest for emissions. An infographic exploring the problem, visualising some UK data on the topic and sharing some solutions. We partnered with @experian to bring this data story to life. » See the visualisation » Explore the data

Nov 2021

What can we personally do to reduce emissions?

Genuinely impactful actions, according to data. » See the visualisation » Source: ‘The climate mitigation gap’ (Wynes & Nicholas) 2017

Nov 2021

Special Pay-What-You-Can Infographic Workshop for those in low-income countries

We’re hosting a special 4 hour version of our How to Make Impactful Infographics Workshop for those in lower-income countries on Mon 8th Nov 12pm BST. Tickets are pay-what-you-can on a sliding scale. » Find out more about the content » See the country list » Order a ticket Hopefully see you there!

Oct 2021

How to Get the World to Netzero Carbon Emissions by 2050 – A Graphical Guide

Where our emissions come from & what needs to be be done to halve and then curtail them to #netzero by 2050. » Check out the graphic » See the data Over 1,500 pages of research, reporting, datasheets and articles condensed into one infographic. I did a lot of reading… » How to Avoid A Climate Disaster by Bill Gates (384 pages) » The...

Oct 2021

Beautiful News book UK Edition – out today

200+ hand-crafted infographics and visualisations, surfacing positive trends, uplifting stats and creative solutions to the world’s problems. Each with their own unique dataset available online. » See some spreads » Order UK edition from Amazon or other outlets » Support local bookshops – order from UK Bookshop.org » 60sec reaction video of...

Oct 2021