- How much does Hollywood earn?
Major anti-online piracy laws like PIPA/SOPA and ACTA are designed to protect the intellectual property of businesses like the US movie industry. Hollywood cites yearly losses of billions of dollars to illegal internet downloads as justification for new legislation. (source, PDF) But what do the numbers say? See our data and calculations: http://www.bit.ly/movierevs. (And, um, [...]
- Hollywood budgets ? extended deadline
Well, our Information is Beautiful Awards challenge on movie budgets is proving more popular than a DVD of Juno on a wet afternoon. We’ve had loads of great entries already. And some amazingly creative ideas are popping up. Like, Jermone Cukier‘s explorations of the dollar value of individual features of a plot. He cross-referenced keywords [...]
- A Taxonomy of Ideas?
Recently, when throwing ideas around with people, I’ve noticed something. There seems to be a hidden language we use when evaluating ideas. Neat idea. Brilliant idea. Dumb idea. Bad idea. Strange idea. Cool idea. There’s something going on here. Each one of these ideas is subtly different in character. Each adjective somehow conveys the quality [...]
- Hollywood Budgets ? A $5000 Data-Viz Challenge
This might be our best dataset yet. A massive sheaf of numbers on every major Hollywood film since 2007. Their budgets, review scores, grosses, genres and profits. Just in time for the Oscars in February! We’re challenging people to visualise this data – either in a design or an interactive piece. And, thanks to beloved [...]
- The Top 21 Albums of 2011 from 120 Top 10 Lists
All the top-rated albums from all the top top-ten lists visualized. Try saying that with a mouthful of egg-nog. Thanks to Metacritic.com’s awesome data clumping. Here’s nearly all of them on a single Spotify playlist.
- Information is Beautiful Awards: Shortlist #2
The second shortlist of amazing entries for the monthly Information is Beautiful Awards challenge is up! Tasks don’t come much bigger than the one we set with the Guardian Datablog – visualizing the financial crisis. But you didn’t let us down. Follow the links to see this month’s selected visualizers - Design challenge - Napkin [...]
- Scales of Devastation
I was trying to get my head around the scale of the Thailand floods. So I did. See the result in my visualisation column for the Guardian Datablog. The data has other numbers we couldn’t quite visualise. See here: http://www.bit.ly/scalesdev. Design: David McCandless Research: Miriam Quick Data: http://www.bit.ly/scalesdev. Sources: BBC, Wikipedia, USGS.gov and other media [...]
- We?re hiring! Again!
**Applications are now closed.** If you sent one in, thank you. We’ll be in touch with shortlisted people early in the New Year. Want to be a part of the Information Is Beautiful team? Now’s your chance. We’ve got loads of interesting book, web and film projects looming, including a new tome from David. You’ll [...]
- Our second $5000 information design challenge is on!
We’ve got another pot of info-design gold to give away – and this time your work might land you on the Guardian Datablog. Last month we ran our first visualization challenge. And, boy, did you peeps really rise to it. And here’s our second challenge: MON?Y PANIC$! The financial system, debt crises, recession fears, Wall [...]
- Aimes-tu La Datavision?
The French edition of our book – Datavision – is out. Très excitant! You can have a interactive leaf through some of the book’s pages here. And then pop over to Amazon to snag a copy. Apparently French kids are already calling it “archifrais” (“super-fresh!”). Win A Copy We’re so excited about this, we’re going to give [...]
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