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...

Down in Louisiana, it's not the alligators you need to worry about. Water is engulfing the land at a frightening rate. Astonishingly, the US state is losing a football field of land every 48 minutes (that's 16 square miles a year) due to climate change, drilling and dredging f...

Seattle-based designer Eleanor Lutz used to work in a research lab, teaching mosquitos to fly through mazes. Now she visualizes data (rather beautifully, in our opinion). Her latest blog post features an animated poster showing simulated wing beats of five different flying cre...

A huge thank you to everyone who’s submitted something to our data viz awards! We’ve been totally blown away by the high standard of entries this year. Lucky for us, we’ve got some data viz gurus on board to help with the difficult task of picking the winners. Meet your ...

MobileVis is a website that gathers great examples of data visualizations created specifically for mobile devices. All projects on the site are submitted by contributors (yes, you can contribute too) and tagged with relevant headers meaning you can re-organise the content by c...

Choosing a school for your child is no easy task. It’s a veritable minefield out there and reading dozens upon dozens of mostly textual, multi-page school reports is time consuming and often confusing. Which is precisely why US-based educational body, The Foundation for Excell...

We’ve been admiring the work of Milan-based designer Martina Cecchi. We particularly love the EMAPS project published earlier this year by Wired Italia which maps an international climate change debate. See photos of the project (and more of her work) on her site at martinaeli...

It's fashion month around the globe with all the top designers showing in New York, London, Milan and Paris during their respective fashion weeks. But how do the world's most dedicated followers of fashion use Instagram to relay what they're up to during this busy time? Well, ...

When you, um, pause whilst talking, you might use a little word like “uh” or “um”. According to some research by forensic linguist Dr Jack Grieve, your particular choice of such a filler word is more likely to be swayed by your geographical location than you might think. Find ...