David McCandless is a London-based author, data-journalist and information designer, working across print, advertising, TV and web. His blog and best-selling books  Information Is Beautiful (2009), Knowledge is Beautiful (2014) and Beautiful News (2021) are dedicated to visualising ideas, issues, knowledge and data - and to discovering novel patterns and stories in the seas of data swamping and surrounding us. http://www.informationisbeautiful.net | @infobeautiful