Apparently, describing what Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert is like is a bit like trying to explain what a particular colour looks like to a blind person. Tricky. But what does ... →

Here in the UK it’s Friday afternoon. And for lots of us, that means it’s nearly "beer o’clock". Fed by data from the World Health Organisation, a new online application by Zenoid shows h... →

A nifty web app by The Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) shows Swiss topographical changes over the years from 1844 up to 2012. The map you see in the app is fed by several, ... →

Here at IIB towers, we spend most of our work-time neck-deep in data. It's what we do. However, thanks to a new PlayStation game, we might well find ourselves immersed in data during play... →

We're opening up the nomination process for the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards! Now you can put forward someone else's work you’ve liked via this form and we’ll ask them to submit... →

All in the glorious pursuit of data visualisations, Nicholas Felton has been noting the minutiae of his daily activities since 2005. Why? In order to create and publish an “annual report”... →

Taxi Trails uses live GPS data from taxi journeys to show where the locals in Stockholm actually go. If you want to know where posh people hang out at the weekend, or where hipsters spend... →

Which songs have stood the test of time and which have fallen into oblivion? →

For almost a decade the talented people at Accept & Proceed have been visualizing the hours of light and darkness that Londoners experience each year. →