Information Is Beautiful

Category Archive: interactive

1. How Many Alien Civilizations are There in the Galaxy?

   September 5, 2012 1:40 pm 9 Comments

   Are we the only intelligent, communicating civilisation in the galaxy? Tweak the statistical probabilities of the ‘Drake Equation’ and find out.
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2. Who Runs the World?

   February 15, 2012 2:00 pm 18 Comments

   
   Amid collapsing currencies, financial ruin and end-days gloom, might it be useful to know who’s really steering this sinking ship?
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3. How much carbon…

   January 17, 2011 4:14 pm 31 Comments

   How much CO2 is created by a banana? A wedding? A flight to New York?
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4. A Decade Of Fear

   January 6, 2011 1:08 pm 32 Comments

   What would a timeline of the world’s greatest fears look like? Like this.

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5. Debtris

   December 31, 2010 12:24 pm 30 Comments

   Our first animation. Enjoy!

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6. Because Every Country Is The Best At Something

   May 19, 2010 3:00 pm 344 Comments

   
   International number ones

   Data: http://bit.ly/IntNoOnes

   Note: Roll over the main image to see the countries.
   
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7. SnakeOil? Scientific evidence for health supplements

   February 25, 2010 12:05 pm 271 Comments

   A generative data-visualisation of all the scientific evidence for popular health supplements by David McCandless and Andy Perkins.

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