David McCandless

Writer, Designer and Creative Director

Author •
TED Speaker

Creator of Information is Beautiful, making complex data visually accessible.
TED Global speaker known for engaging, insightful data storytelling.
Founder of VizSweet, an innovative data visualization tool.

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Meet David McCandless

David McCandless is a London-based author, data-journalist and information designer.

His blog and best-selling design-books Information Is Beautiful, Knowledge is Beautiful and Beautiful News are dedicated to visualising ideas, issues, knowledge and data.

He has worked as a creative consultant for Apple, Google, and Microsoft, spoken at TED Global and hundreds of international conferences. and taught his concept and story-driven approach to data-visualisation to teams at SalesForce, Twitter and others.