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...

We’re really excited to announce that we are now accepting entries for the 2014 Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards. We’ve refined the entry process to make it as simple as possible. We’ve kept the prices down. We’re working on the judging panel and will let you know who...

We’re hugely excited to announce the winners and runners up of our Human Cost challenge. Thank you to everyone who entered and for all the hard work you put in. The challenge was a tricky one – to visualize the price of human life over history, but the results were fantasti...

Last year we invited everyone who had been shortlisted to join us for a special awards ceremony where we announced the overall winners in each category. The result was a spectacular evening celebrating super high-quality design and story-telling from around the world in thi...

We’ve been through hell and high water to bring you the best and brightest of the data viz world in 2013 for the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards. Many hours of cogitation, digestion and deliberation have been spent and now here they are, all of our glorious winners on o...

A useful blog collecting the sharpest viz work around. A perfect antidote to the horrors of WTF viz!

A wealth of census data given an interactive boost in this neat map of London.  Particularly recommend exploring the wealth divide between east and west, expressed all too clearly when looking at unemployment rates. Nice work from James Trimble at UK Data Explorer.

An excellent, insightful and accessible interactive site investigating multiple sclerosis. Excellent work from the team at Digesting Science.