David McCandless

British writer and data journalist

David McCandless (born 1971)[1] is a British data-journalist, writer and information designer.

Education, personal life

McCandless is an alumnus of Westfield College and lives in London.

Career

McCandless 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[2] and the subsequent publication of his book of the same name (titled A Visual Miscellaneum in the United States).[3]

McCandless began his career writing for cult video game magazines such as Your Sinclair and PC Zone in the late 1980s and 1990s before moving on to work for The Guardian and Wired magazine. Since the publication of Information Is Beautiful in 2009, his information design work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Wired, and Die Zeit, and has also been showcased at the Museum of Modern Art in New York,[4] the Wellcome Trust gallery in London, and at the Tate Britain.[5] His second book, Knowledge Is Beautiful, was published in 2014

A third book, Beautiful News, was released in 2023.

Bibliography

  • Information is Beautiful (2009)
  • Knowledge is Beautiful (2014)
  • Beautiful News (2023)

References

  1. ^ Kirk, Andy (5 January 2011). "Visualisation Insights: #6 Data Journalist & Information Designer: David McCandless". VisualisingData.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015. I'm 38 years old
  2. ^ Information is Beautiful (Kindle ed.). Collins. 2013. ASIN B00BAJ6G4O. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  3. ^ Visual Miscellaneum: The Bestselling Classic, Revised and Updated: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia (Revised ed.). Harper Design. 2012. ISBN 978-0062236524. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  4. ^ "The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions". Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Bio". David McCandless. Archived from the original on 6 November 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2013.

External links

  • Official website
  • Information Is Beautiful: ideas, issues, knowledge, data — visualized!
  • David McCandless profile & articles, The Guardian
  • The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions digital exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Knowledge Is Beautiful by David McCandless – Review
  • David McCandless at TED Edit this at Wikidata
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