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2024-05-03 04:32:04
Plastics are deeply woven into our societies, our supply chains, our lives, our possessions, even our bodies. Runaway plastic pollution and waste is the other great environmental crisis facing our civilisation. Unlike most plastics, it’s actually possible to break this global problem down into its constituent parts. Here in infographical form. That way, you can […]
2024-04-29 23:05:38
It’s our 15th anniversary this year and we’d love to hear about you: who you are, why you follow us, what you like, what you don’t, what you value and how you interact with us and anyone else in the infosphere. Yes, it’s a survey but a quick two minute one. Plus every 100th participant […]
2024-04-23 23:02:44
We are announcing special workshops and trainings to celebrate our 15th anniversary. Coming up: A rare in-person session in LDN with IIB founder David McCandless (we do these once a year). A virtual workshop running on two half days and the regular full day session. Learn how to turn numbers, ideas & data into beautiful […]
2024-04-09 02:03:34
Every month we pick and share some of our favourite infographics, visualisations and data stories. Here’s what we found in our work folders and around the web. CREATED BY US » Two Years of the Russia-Ukraine War – Key numbers. Casualties. Military spend. Foreign aid. » $$$Trillions – Vast spending figures plucked from news headlines. […]
2024-03-21 21:30:46
We’ve updated our interactive LLM tracker with 30 new and notable LLMs including Anthropic Claude 3, Twitter’s Grok, all Mistral’s offerings, Google Gemini Pro, Apple’s MM1 (finally!) and Chinese LLMs like DeepSeek, GLM-4 and Xinghuo 3.5. We’ve also flagged up soon-to-be-released LLMs such as OpenAI’s rumoured open source model G3PO, Amazon’s mighty Olympus, Meta’s Llama […]
2024-03-15 22:18:00
To celebrate 15 years of Information is Beautiful this June, we’re hosting a series of rare and exclusive live performances in London, San Francisco, LA and potentially other cities – plus some virtual events for global timezones. IIB founder and TED speaker David McCandless will start the festivities by hitting the stage at the prestigious […]
2024-03-08 16:50:04
Two years into the conflict this infographic data story reveals some of the harsh, hidden numbers around casualties, military budgets and foreign aid in the Russia-Ukraine war. In times of war, data is difficult to validate, information hard to find. We polled a variety of sources – institutes, traditional media, independent media, civic groups – […]
2024-02-14 01:34:53
An interactive visualisation of all the cases and decisions Meta’s Oversight Board has taken between 2020 and today. The semi-independent ‘Supreme Court’ deals with controversial content-moderation issues on Facebook and Instagram. Hate speech. Promotion of dangerous organisations Misinformation on important topics. The 20 members of the board have selected just 78 cases from over 1.3m […]
2024-01-17 00:25:22
23andMe, Xfinity, X/Twitter and the Indonesian people (yes all of them) – are among the latest victims listed in our ongoing visualisation of data leaks, hacks and breaches (2023-2004) We’ve also updated the new interactive graphic – Breaches by Data Sensitivity – so you can see what kinds of records have been leaked (passwords, social […]
2024-01-15 22:27:09
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives » Tue 5th Mar 2024 – UK/EU timezone » Tue 26th Mar 2024 – US timezone » Tue 30th Apr 2024 – AUS timezone » Streamable on-demand version now also available. Our trainings are a technicolour mix of lecture, exercises, discussion & techniques, hosted by IIB founder and […]