UPDATE: Over 30 new LLMs added to our AI Large Language Model Tracker
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by David McCandless
1w ago
We’ve updated our interactive LLM tracker with 30 new and notable LLMs including Anthropic Claude 3, Twitter’s Grok, all Mistral’s offerings, Google Gemini Pro, Apple’s MM1 (finally!) and Chinese LLMs like DeepSeek, GLM-4 and Xinghuo 3.5. We’ve also flagged up soon-to-be-released LLMs such as OpenAI’s rumoured open source model G3PO, Amazon’s mighty Olympus, Meta’s Llama 3 and of course ChatGPT-5. » See the visualization » Review the data » Here’s a great source we used with many most LLMs listed Made with VizSweet ..read more
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ANNOUNCING: Some rare LIVE shows to celebrate our 15th anniversary this year
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by Sven Ehmann
1w ago
To celebrate 15 years of Information is Beautiful this June, we’re hosting a series of rare and exclusive live performances in London, San Francisco, LA and potentially other cities – plus some virtual events for global timezones. IIB founder and TED speaker David McCandless will start the festivities by hitting the stage at the prestigious Royal Institution in London on Tue 25th June 2024. Look forward to 90 minutes of fun, surprise, aha’s and Eurekas as David shares his funniest, and most insightful and revelatory visuals and data stories. All performed in his unique style of “performance jo ..read more
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Russia-Ukraine War – When information is NOT beautiful. Key numbers. Casualty figures. Military aid.
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by David McCandless
2w ago
Two years into the conflict this infographic data story reveals some of the harsh, hidden numbers around casualties, military budgets and foreign aid in the Russia-Ukraine war. In times of war, data is difficult to validate, information hard to find. We polled a variety of sources – institutes, traditional media, independent media, civic groups – to find credible estimates and answers to key questions. How many combatants have been killed and wounded? What % of territory has been won or lost? How much money is being spent on the war – and where does it come from? How important is the USA’s con ..read more
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Meta vs. Meta – How Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ modulates the company’s content moderation.
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by Sven Ehmann
1M ago
An interactive visualisation of all the cases and decisions Meta’s Oversight Board has taken between 2020 and today.  The semi-independent ‘Supreme Court’ deals with controversial content-moderation issues on Facebook and Instagram. Hate speech. Promotion of dangerous organisations Misinformation on important topics. The 20 members of the board have selected just 78 cases from over 1.3m submitted per year. See where they over-ruled or upheld Meta’s decisions – and whether you agree. Beyond Facebook, content moderation is a complex dilemma for many tech platforms, raising complex issues an ..read more
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UPDATED: World’s Biggest Data Breaches – 450+ hacks in one visualisation
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by Sven Ehmann
2M ago
23andMe, Xfinity, X/Twitter and the Indonesian people (yes all of them) – are among the latest victims listed in our ongoing visualisation of data leaks, hacks and breaches (2023-2004) We’ve also updated the new interactive graphic – Breaches by Data Sensitivity – so you can see what kinds of records have been leaked (passwords, social security numbers, medical data). All made with our tool VizSweet. We’re now in our eighth year of updates. Let us know if we’ve missed any (but pretty please review the datasheet first). » Safely check if your details have been compromised in any recent data bre ..read more
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New Infographic Training Seminars for 2024
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by Sven Ehmann
2M ago
Announcing a new season of our fun online intensives » Tue 5th Mar 2024 – UK/EU timezone » Tue 26th Mar 2024 – US timezone » Tue 30th Apr 2024 – AUS timezone » Streamable on-demand version now also available. Our trainings are a technicolour mix of lecture, exercises, discussion & techniques, hosted by IIB founder and author, David McCandless. » See what participants say Learn how to approach data-visualisation and infographic creation from an editorial ‘conceptual’ point of view, rather than a data POV. May be useful if you are: › Translating written reports ..read more
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Most Beautiful News of the Year 2023
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by David McCandless
3M ago
Ending the year on a positive note, our picks of positive trends and admirable global breakthroughs of 2023. Part of our Beautiful News project. There we surface the good news and happy data we can’t always see when fixated on the negativity of the news. » See the charticle » Explore the data and sources ..read more
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The Best Novels of 2023, According to 20 ‘Books of the Year’ Lists
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by David McCandless
3M ago
A consensus cloud of the most mentioned novels in best-books-of-the-year polls. Which literary novels do the critics agree are the best of 2023? We’ve been updating this the last few years. It currently covers 2020-2023. » See the visualisation » Check the data Sources: Time Magazine, Washington Post, New York Times, The Guardian, Esquire, NPR, The New Yorker, Harpers, Kirkus, GoodReads, Booker Prize, Book Riot, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Publisher’s Weekly, Oprah’s Book List, Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, Vogue. Dynamic word clouds generated with VizSweet.  ..read more
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Which Countries Produce the Most Oil?
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by David McCandless
3M ago
And who has the largest oil reserves? Maybe less cross-comparison than you might think. » see the graphic Voronoi Charts made with our tool VizSweet ..read more
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The Information is Beautiful Fine Art Print Store
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by David McCandless
3M ago
We’ve finally opened an art-print store. It’s been 10 years since we last sold posters of our #infographic works. So technically everything there is limited edition! Why the long hiatus? Partly, you know, busyness. And partly because we wanted to guarantee the most eco-friendly products. We’ve partnered with Prodigi to create beautiful prints on sustainability-certified paper, using water-based inks and localised delivery in UK, USA, AUS and CAN to minimise emissions. We’ve opened with a small selection of popular images and a selection of print-itself-yourself-PDFs. We’ll be adding more over ..read more
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