Enter the Information is Beautiful Awards 2025

2025-01-18 01:55:13

Our yearly celebration of the best infographics and data-visualisations from around the world is back for 2023! Now in its eleventh year and in association 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, maps, interactives, information art, video, animation, app, site, sculpture, or artwork. Pieces can be created in any software, platform, or medium, using any type of materials.

Here are the categories open for submission:

» Arts, Entertainment & Culture
» Business Analytics
» Current Affairs & Politics
» Humanitarian
» Leisure, Games & Sport
» People, Language & Identity
» Places, Spaces & Environment
» Science, Technology & Health
» Unusual

Entries are currently open and will close on 31st Jan 2025.
Any work created between Sep 1st 2023 and Dec 31st 2023 is eligible.
Winner will share prizes from a $20,000 pot.

» See more criteria for entry

You can see previous years’ winners and entries on the Information is Beautiful Awards Showcase.

What a wonderful world it could be…

2025-01-17 22:55:05

Wait, CORRECTION: “is already”.

A different way of seeing the news.

New Infographic Training Seminars for 2025

2025-01-15 21:41:05

Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives

NEXT DATES

» Tue 11th & Wed 12th Feb UK/EU/AUS timezone
2 half day online intensive
London 9:00 – 12:00
Berlin 10:00 – 13:00 (CST)
Dubai 12:00-15:00
Beijing/Singapore 16:00 – 19:00
Seoul/Tokyo 17:00 – 20:00
Melbourne/Sydney 18:00 – 21:00
Aukland 20:00
UTC 8:00 – 11:00

» Tue 11th & Wed 12th Mar USA timezone
2 half day online intensive
US West Coast 9:00 – 12:00
US Central 12:00 – 14:00
US East Coast 12:00 – 15:00
Brazil, Argentina 13:00 – 16:00
UK 17:00 – 20:00
EU 18:00 – 21:00
Dubai 20:00
India 21:30

» Mon 28th Apr UK London
In-person, all day
Great way to learn and meet fellow practitioners in a luxury hotel setting. Includes lunch and after drinks.

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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 infographic creation from an editorial ‘conceptual’ point of view, rather than a data POV.

May be useful if you are:
› Translating written reports, research & messaging into visual graphics
› Wanting to understand data journalism and story-telling with data
› A words and ideas person looking to translate concepts into design language
› A visual / design thinker wanting to expand your approach to include data
› A data / code practitioner looking to improve aesthetics and conceptual prowess

» Find out more

Discounts available for students, educators, freelancers, health workers, NGOs & others.

» Streamable on-demand version also available

Most Beautiful News of the Year 2024

2024-12-31 23:01:40

Ending the year on a positive note, our picks of positive trends and admirable global breakthroughs of 2024.

Part of our Beautiful News project. There we surface the good news and happy data we can’t always see when fixated on the negativity of the news.

» See the charticle
» Explore the data and sources

Up to 60% off our beautiful books

2024-12-17 18:59:20

May we humbly suggest our lush, 256 page infographic books, as potential gifts?

All three, published by Harper Collins, are 256 pages of mind-bending facts and enlightening visuals. If there’s someone in your life who loves numbers and visuals and facts as much as we do, these might be perfect offerings.

The best current deals we could find

Amazon UK
» 68% off our Beautiful News book. Just £8!
» 44% off Information is Beautiful & Beautiful News double-pack

Amazon USA
» Beautiful News book – half price
» Knowledge is Beautiful – 10% off
» The OG Visual Miscellaneum – 30% off

Around the World
» Find deals for Information is Beautiful, Knowledge is Beautiful, Beautiful News

Non-English Language Editions
» FYI Beautiful News is now published in French, German and Dutch languages!
» Our other books have been published across 16 different languages

Ok! That’s it.

Dataviz of the Month – Nov 24

2024-12-13 22:02:08

CREATED BY US

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» Left vs Right – concept map of political ideas

» Predictions made of the future in 2009 – how close were we?

» The Information is Beautiful Art Print Store – order high quality wall art of some of our most popular infographics & visualisations – now with T-shirts!