Information Is Beautiful

Category Archive: Originals

1. Rhetological Fallacies

   March 27, 2012 4:57 pm 74 Comments

   A brain-blending categorisation and visualisation of errors and manipulations of rhetoric and logical thinking. How many do you use?

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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 does Hollywood earn?

   February 1, 2012 7:29 pm 30 Comments

   Major anti-online piracy laws like PIPA/SOPA and ACTA are designed to protect the intellectual property of businesses like the US movie industry.
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4. A Taxonomy of Ideas?

   January 13, 2012 12:10 pm 116 Comments

   
   Recently, when throwing ideas around with people, I’ve noticed something. There seems to be a hidden language we use when evaluating ideas.
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5. The Top 21 Albums of 2011 from 120 Top 10 Lists

   January 2, 2012 2:55 pm 20 Comments

   All the top-rated albums from all the top top-ten lists visualized. Try saying that with a mouthful of egg-nog.
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6. Scales of Devastation

   November 25, 2011 3:30 pm 6 Comments

   I was trying to get my head around the scale of the Thailand floods. So I did.

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7. What are the Wall St Protestors So Angry About?

   October 21, 2011 9:00 pm 24 Comments

   Loads of people have emailed asking if we can improve the graphs on the What The Wall Street Protestors Are So Angry About megapost.

   Sure!
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8. Left vs Right v1.5

   July 22, 2011 8:44 am 64 Comments

   An update of our fabled Left vs Right concept map. Written and art-directed by David McCandless. Designed by Stefanie Posavec.

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9. Is The HPV Vaccine Safe? v 2.0

   July 21, 2011 6:42 pm 94 Comments

   Remember a couple years ago when there was a big kick-off about the safety of the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Vaccine?

   The virus causes 99.7% of all cases of cervical cancer – the second deadliest for women, after breast cancer.

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10. The Sunscreen Smokescreen

    July 11, 2011 2:30 pm 125 Comments

    It started with a question. It always does. This time, the question was simple: How much sunscreen should I wear?

    I’m a pale geek who burns. I wanted to know the optimal. A simple question with a simple answer, right?

    Wrong.

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