David McCandless
David McCandless
David McCandless is a British data-journalist, and information designer based in London. He is the founder of the visual blog Information Is Beautiful. Early explorations into the synergy between data visualisation and his work as a journalist led to the development of Information Is Beautiful and the subsequent publication of his seminal book of the same name...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
great huge information
Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.
grasp instant love overview situation stay
I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.
colour endless image jungle websites
In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.
provide ubiquitous
Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.
years data government
Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.
eye maps landscape
By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.
information form compression
Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.
finding journalist love
What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.