Information Is Beautiful Awards

Wet Wet Wet?

dan_editor — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:44:22 +0000

Great work from the South China Morning Post’s graphics team.

They’ve created an evocative, informative and attractive infographic charting 23 years worth of rain in Hong Kong.

Have Your Say On The 2013 Awards

dan_editor — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:13:16 +0000

We’ll shortly be launching the 2013 Information is Beautiful Awards.

To help us improve on what we felt was a big success last year, we’ve generated a pico-questionnaire with a few short questions relating to the awards.

We’re hoping your insights and suggestions will help us to make this year even better.

Five respondents will win a copy of the new edition of Information is Beautiful, please leave some contact details if you want to be entered into the draw.

Thanks!

Taste Test

dan_editor — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:16:18 +0000

Food related infographics hold a special place in our stomach. For his final project at Bournemouth University, designer Craig Atkinson analysed the taste of 100 different foods and wines.

Using his own visual code, he developed a swatch book that scientifically matches the pairings of flavours and allows the user to identify delicious combinations of food and wine.

It looks amazing, we’d love to get our hands on a copy!

Tribes and Tribulations

dan_editor — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:45:53 +0000

Emirati/Syrian filmmaker and designer Sarah Alagroobi offers up this this fascinating project, documenting the tribes of the United Arab Emirates.

With family name determining status and therefore of huge importance, the touch screen motion infographic and supporting images (available here) reveals the ties, links and marriages that dominate the Emirates’ social structure.

Emirati Tribes | Infographics 2 from sarah alagroobi on Vimeo.

Living Ruins

dan_editor — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:34:38 +0000

Living Ruins is a beautiful 3D infographic from the University of Florida Undergrad Yushin Kato.

An innovative and interesting look at the environmental and economic value of the world’s 10 largest coral reefs. Amazing!

Stocks Snapshot

dan_editor — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:41:48 +0000

How does the stock market behave in a microsecond?

The video below visualises just 1/2 a second’s worth of high frequency trading in Johnson & Johnson stock.

It looks like a watered down Space Invaders to us, but the write up on the Nanex site assures us it’s a lot more serious.

Meteorite Strike!

dan_editor — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:57:18 +0000

Datavis designer Carlo Zapponi makes use of a wealth of meterorite strike data to visualise thousands of hits on Earth.

Comparing those that we see falling (1045) to those that we’ve dug up or recorded (34,000) gives an indication as to how precarious our position in the solar system can seem!

Click through the image to see the interactive.

Mapping Hate Tweets

dan_editor — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:43:15 +0000

A worrying yet vital piece of work from a team led by Dr. Monica Stephens at Humboldt University. Using over 150,000 geocoded tweets, they mined those which contained ‘hate speech’ and plotted them across the USA.

Click through the map to explore the interactive.

Circular Sounds

dan_editor — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:56:17 +0000

Audio/visual auteur Craig Allan AKA Numbercult breaks the mould of the traditional music sequencer with his latest experiment Cycles 720.

Though still a work in progress, Cycles creates sounds dynamically with interactions between shapes triggering different actions.

Looking forward to seeing this develop!

Cycles 720 from numbercult on Vimeo.

Mapping Terrorism

dan_editor — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:09:26 +0000

Insurance supercorp AON have made their latest political risk heatmap available for free. Using their data on risks of riots, revolutions, and political instability, it’s definitely worth a look.

Click through to use the interactive.