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 a day spent at Burning Man look like in data? Gregory Ferenstein attended equipped with a ...

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 how much and what types of alcohol are consumed by the world’s different countries on a wee...

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, perfectly aligned, historic maps of Switzerland. As you look at the map (feel free to zoom...

Shakespeare utilised no fewer than 28,829 different words across his entire works. The brainy git. Intrigued, digital strategist Matt Daniels used token analysis to determine a selection of rappers’ vocabularies and ranked them based on his findings.  Perhaps surprising...

As well as being the editor of data-driven journalism website, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver is a burrito fan. Big time. Over several years he’s not only been eating and enthusing about the burritos he’s been seeking out all over Chicago - but has managed to convene a national ...

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 playtime too. Released earlier this month exclusively for the PS Vita, Metrico lets you explor...

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 it. Tweet your suggestions with #iibawards and we’ll retweet. It doesn’t matter how st...

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” amassing reams of his personal data each year. This week he’s published his 16 page 2013 ...

Two men dressed in shiny boxer shorts pummeling each other until one is victorious is not, usually, a pretty site. However, in this poster – (Irish designer Aiden Grennelle's homage to Swiss graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockmann) Mohamad Ali vs George Foreman’s historic "Rum...

Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space! “A Spacecraft For All” is a Google Chrome Experiment that functions as simulation of the flight path of ISEE-3 spacecraft. As well as charting the spacecraft’s journey since its launch on August 12 1978, it shows its current posi...

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 their weekday evenings, it’s all here. The map shows popular areas by heat, so it’s al...

Which songs have stood the test of time and which have fallen into oblivion? This viz uses data from the Whitburn project to chart top 10 hits for each year over the last century. Each song has been measured by its current online presence, so you can sort the Heartbreak Hot...

For almost a decade the talented people at Accept & Proceed have been visualizing the hours of light and darkness that Londoners experience each year. Every year the data is given a new design twist. We think you’ll agree 2014’s light calendar is beautiful, but it’s als...