This will keep you occupied over the holidays. See what you can do with a dataset all about food poisoning.

5.25 trillion pieces of plastic weighing more than 268,000 tonnes are floating around the world’s oceans. And this is what it looks like. Sailing Seas of Plastic is an interactive map of global marine plastic distribution created by New Zealand-based data viz team, Dumpa...

Terrorist groups continue to dominate the news. But which have been around the longest? And which are the most deadly? Data viz agency Periscopic decided to find out as part of a project for the Global Terrorism Database. The result? A World of Terror, a website visua...

David Leonhardt and his team at The Upshot have worked with Climate Central to make this incredible interactive dataviz showing the number of people that will be affected by regular flooding in the next 100 years. It’s a great example of how uncertainty can be factored into...

Living with a large migrant population tends to persuade people against immigration. Right? Wrong. Gavin Jackson, stats journalist at the Financial Times, decided to give UK views on immigration the data viz treatment. The results suggest the need for a re-think on the r...

Launch all 1,200 of the satellites currently orbiting Earth with David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz’s absorbing interactive data viz published on Quartz this week. First decide whether to view satellites according to their purpose, country, age or user. Then set the satellites...

We love the user-friendly simplicity of UK Temperature History, an interactive data viz by Brighton-based designer, Peter Cook. Over 100 years of temperatures in Blighty can be sorted in order of date, hottest months, coldest months and hottest years on average. The warm...

Thank you to everyone who came to our Awards bash on Wednesday night! We had an awesome evening showing off this year's fantastic short list and announcing the overall winners. Check out our video to see what went down. And find out what the press thought - thanks...

We’re incredibly proud to announce the winners of the third Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards! Thanks to everyone who spent time cogitating, digesting and deliberating on what has been a truly bumper crop of data viz. And congratulations to our winners. Now delve...

Tonight we’re proudly announcing the winners of the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2014. And we can’t wait to celebrate what has been another cracking year in data viz! Follow #IIBAwards on twitter for live updates or check back here later tonight for the full li...

Now it’s YOUR turn to join the judging panel as our eighth meta-judge! Simply vote for your favourite data viz work in each category via our online Showcase. Enjoy perusing the outstanding entries but please note: you can only vote once in each category once you’...

2014’s shortlist is now live! It makes for a stunning collection of the very best in dataviz over the last year from around the world. Go explore via our Showcase. Whittling down the long list is always a heartbreaking exercise, and this year’s been no different. As a...

We’ve had a busy few weeks processing and reviewing all your awesome work and can now reveal the entries that have been selected for this year's longlist. Congratulations to everyone who has made it this far and a big thanks to the hundreds of you that entered! Our judges w...