Information is Beautiful

A site of infographics and interactive charts on science, health, money and society, with many of the underlying datasets shared as Google Sheets.

Messy, argued-over topics are turned into single charts you can take in at a glance and then check against the source spreadsheet.

DownloadCommercial: conditions

For your project

Official API: API unclear
Data download: Yes google-sheets
License: site licensing terms (free non-commercial use with credit; paid commercial licence) the graphics (static images) and their underlying data
Commercial use: Commercial use with conditions
“Images need permission for usage and usually a fee for use in the following contexts: Paid online education platforms Commercial textbooks Profit-making companies that do business with the public sector Books, magazines, newspapers, commercial websites and other publications” informationisbeautiful.net/licensing/
Credit: Credit required
“Simply grab the static image from the site (or the underlying data ) and make sure you credit & link to David McCandless, InformationIsBeautiful.net .” informationisbeautiful.net/licensing/
Embedding: Embedding with conditions
“To embed our work in large commercial websites” informationisbeautiful.net/licensing/
Using the website: Free

Read on Information is Beautiful's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms. Check the license page before you ship.

No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand or through its downloads.

No API; the data page links each graphic's Google Sheet. Free use is limited to non-commercial contexts with credit and a link.
Credit and link 'David McCandless, InformationIsBeautiful.net' on every use
Commercial use, including embedding in large commercial websites, needs a paid licence via the contact page
Free use for public blogs/channels only below 100,000 followers

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/information-is-beautiful/agent.md before using Information is Beautiful.

A non-commercial classroom quiz that shows one IIB chart per question with credit and link
A re-visualisation of an IIB Google Sheet dataset for a personal blog (under 100,000 followers, credited)