Apr 10
Our friends at Pop Chart Lab love tracing down the tangled, tortuous branches of the family trees connecting some of our favorite things. They’ve done it for beer
Feb 26
We’re living smack dab in the middle of a golden age of data viz—or peak data viz, depending on your point of view. Beautiful Science, a new exhibition at the British Library, offers a glimpse at how complex info was presented before technology made infographics so inescapably ubiquitous.
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Feb 09
No matter where in the world you live, you’re working for the weekend. How much you can enjoy said weekend, though, varies greatly from country to country. Meet Quartz’s Beer Index. It’ll make you glad you’re not in Georgia.
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Jan 16
Infographics might seem like a modern phenomenon—citizens of the internet love nothing more than a nice and tidy presentation of catchy stats—but data viz dates way, way back. In The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge, interaction designer Manuel Lima examines a recurring theme: more than eight centuries’ worth of trees used as diagrams, and why botanical iconography has endured from those early days through to the digital revolution.
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Jan 13
Society places a bizarre amount of weight on when a writer or artist creates their first real successful work—blame our obsession with youth or tiger moms or whatever. Still, it’s interesting to see if there’s a correlation between your age and the best work of your career there’s—this diagram helps us do just that.
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Jan 07
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently opened the doors of a brand new HQ in Washington DC. But it might be tough for visitors to tear themselves away from the foyer, which is home to the Global Data Chandelier—a pixelated fixture composed of 425 LED pendants arranged in the shape of a world map that glows in time with different data sets.
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Jan 07
Did you know the Hale-Bopp comet will return 2,372 years from now, while in 50,000 years, Niagara Falls will disappear? And a mere 5 million years from now, men will be extinct, thanks to the Y chromosome’s instability. These are just some of the gems in the BBC’s Timeline of the Far Future, a major events forecast for the next 100 quintillion years.
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Jan 07
It’s way more fun to finish off a big ol’ bar of dark choco when you can convince yourself it’s good for you. Because c’mon, science says so… in all those random studies you’ve seen floating around the internet… right? Well, surprise surprise, it turns out there are a bunch of false facts out there regarding the health benefits of your favorite treats. Now, the team at Information is Beautiful have visualized the scientific evidence—or lack thereof—behind what they dub Snake Oil Superfoods, breaking down hard data in an infinitely clickable format.
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Nov 21
Christianity. Islam. Judaism. Buddhism. Hinduism. All the major religions have basically competed with each other in an epic, historical game of Risk. Who can gain the most converts? Which religion is the most right at being right? Who has the most color on the board? Those who start strong early can flame out, others can try to stay steady while Christianity ends up painting the entire world after establishing key holding grounds.
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Oct 01
There comes a time in life when the cheap, watery beer ubiquitous at youthful keg parties and in not-quite-legally-sourced 24-packs just isn’t good enough anymore, when Natty Ice and Keystone Light are upgraded to… absolutely anything but Natty Ice and Keystone Light.
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