Information is beautiful

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.

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.

» Latest AI LLM’s ranked by performance (MMLU)

» 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!

» Love these population density spike maps

» Oh just every hotel bar ever – funny!

» Yet another reason to tut at the Mercator Map projection

» Which language is the most difficult to learn?

» Beautiful map of the climate zones of Africa

» How the world’s landmasses will look in 250m years

» How much the UK’s NHS services cost

» A very different (beautiful) view of the USA

» Find your most famous neighbours with this classic interactive

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We made this graphical timeline back in 2009 for our book Information is Beautiful using predictions made by experts at longbets.org (a proto prediction market of the time).

Interesting to see how (mostly) wrong & (sometimes) right they were.

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» Designed by Nicky Gibson

Our new online store where you can buy high-quality art prints and canvases of our most popular infographics & visualizations as well as downloadable trainings.

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A visualisation of major large-language models (LLMs), ranked by performance, using MMLU (Massive Multitasks Language Understanding) a benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of large language models.

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» main source: Life Architect data
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» chart rendered with our lovely tool VizSweet

» Water World – where is all the water in all the world?
» Per Second – interesting frequencies / cycles / rates / vibrations per second
» The Information is Beautiful Art Print Store – order high quality wall art of some of our most popular infographics & visualisations

» Rotated maps break our brain’s view of the world: Antarctica & The Mediterranean

» Who lived when? Some surprises in this mega graphic

» Incredibly revealing history lesson in this cross section of a road in England

» The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions.

» Awesome? Fine? Brilliant? All superlatives graded and ranked

» Can’t stop looking at this beautiful 7 way venn

» Lord of the Rings characters: screen time vs mentions in the book

» Which is the best Mario Kart Deluxe kart combo out of 703,560 possible customisations?

» The Amazing Archaeology of the Word ‘Apricot’

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One of our favourite images from the book Knowledge is Beautiful by David McCandless (HarperCollins 2014)

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» See the data

Announcing special workshops and trainings to celebrate our 15th anniversary.

Coming up: A rare in-person session in LDN with IIB founder David McCandless. Plus A virtual workshops running on two half days (a much requested new format). And a live ‘performance-data-journalism’ show in London 25th Nov.

Learn how to turn numbers, ideas & data into beautiful charts, graphics & stories. We’ve also added a new “introduction to data storytelling” element so you can begin to learn how to shape and present powerful data stories and narratives.

Next dates:

» Mon 18th Nov