David McCandless: Why Information Is Beautiful In this TED Talk, data journalist David McCandless uses infographics in simple and elegant ways to make data more meaningful. To him, information is ...

Postgrad.com launch a competition with David McCandless, data-journalist and information designer, to create new and compelling visual insights into the state of universities in the UK. Entrants will ...

McCandless (right), after all, is really rather more than just an info geek – although, as he continually points out, he is that as well. His blog and later book Information is Beautiful has quietly ...

Detail of “World Dashboard” visualization in “Knowledge Is Beautiful” by David McCandless (all images courtesy Harper Design) Something dynamic of McCandless’s data visualizations is lost in book form ...