The votes have been counted and Scotland has rejected independence by 55% to 45%. But while the vote required a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to the question of whether Scotland should be an independent country, the different issues involved and the ramifications of the result o...

Creative studio, Dorothy, produced these two posters to celebrate colourful song titles and band names by displaying them in colour wheels designed to look a little like vinyl LPs… The Colour of Song print (above) features the titles of a whopping 576 songs including cl...

You might think that the phrase “endangered species” only applies to a handful of animals such as Pandas, Orang-utans and the indigenous giant tortoises of the Galapagos islands. The alarming fact that there are actually thousands of different animals currently teetering on th...

Comprising the talents of Brooklyn-based duo Patrick Mulligan and Ben Gibson, Pop Chart Lab has but one modest goal: to render all of human experience in chart form. From the many varieties of whiskey to the myriad monikers of Gotham’s villains, there’s no area of culture they...

Artists Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher celebrated a three month trek across Spain by creating a visualization of the journey as a temporary art installation. The resulting circular "mandala", entitled 2751 Kilometres / 2621 Grams, was informed by data recorded during the ...

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 ...