Friends in Space has been the first social network to extend beyond Earth; a 6 months-long open window to make new friends from all over the world and join astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in her...
Founded by noted analyst Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight made its name aggregating political polls and now features data-heavy stories on a range of topics from science to...
The M29 bus route cuts straight through Berlin. It starts in the villa districts in the west of the city, passes through the troubled inner city areas, and ends in Berlin’s trendiest districts....
Originally, this project was a way for Severino Ribecca to develop a knowledge of data visualisation and use as a reference tool. It was then made available for use by anyone in a field that...
Hurricane Katrina was the United States’s most costly and destructive weather disaster in recent history, but how does it compare with other events?
@LazaroGamio @DeniseDSLu
The visualization shows the Italian
cultural production system in 2014,
focusing on three factors: the effect of
the cultural system on the total
tourists’ flow; the effect of the...
China's imports overall are down by 14.6% over 2015. Find out what happens if this decline continues for the rest of the year - or worsens - and how that loss compares to each country's...
The visualisation shows the
cost of houses around the
world, in comparison with the
greater or fewer resources
available to buy or rent a flat.
@thevisualagency
It’s more than a century since the world’s most famous literary detective made his appearance, but our appetite for his startling deductions is undiminished. Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin go back to...
An infographic on California's dry spell that plots data from the Palmer Hydrological Drought Index, a soil-moisture algorithm designed to measure the long-term impact of drought. The graph focuses...
Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click.
@tableau
One of the leading subreddits for the dataviz community, r/dataisbeautiful is a place for discovery and discussion of any visual that effectively conveys information.
@randal_olson
Noise in some areas of Berlin has reached levels considered hazardous to health. The Berliner Morgenpost interactive map shows where the noise in Berlin is potentially harmful, detailing the...
This infographic shows the first 100 historical figures in order of influence according to Pantheon, a Macro connections group of the MIT Media Lab of Boston project which took into account...
Track the number of sectors gaining or losing jobs each month. Boxes are shaded on percentage change from the previous month in each sector's payrolls.
Published by WSJ
@andrewvandam
We wanted to see if we could visualize the so-called ocean garbage patches. We start with data from floating, scientific buoys that NOAA has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35-years,...
Drawing on the same data that powers Google Maps and Google Earth, Project Sunroof uses high-resolution aerial mapping to calculate every roof’s solar energy potential -- and to determine how much...
Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...
The Office for Creative Research is a multidisciplinary research group exploring new modes of engagement with data, through unique practices that borrow from both the arts and sciences. OCR...
Rents are on the rise in Berlin, and the reasons are manifold. Online portals of the so-called “sharing economy”, such as Airbnb, are marketing to tourists and have proven to be a profitable...
In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the...
In the early euphoria following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Germany moved quickly to erase the scars of its Cold War division. But East Germany’s legacy remains visible in...
629,000 girls (aged 0–6 years) are estimated to be missing in India every year. The majority of them are aborted, others are killed, abandoned or neglected to death just because they are girls....
The artwork shows the 100 most valuable brands from 2010 to 2015.The size of the circles represents the value of the brand while the lines show the fluctuation in ranking year after year. Some...
Skeptics of manmade climate change offer various natural causes to explain why the Earth has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. But can these account for the planet's rising temperature?This...
The Counted is a project by the Guardian and you; working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their...
Using somewhat subjective definitions of "at war" -- Korea counts but Kosovo doesn't in our analysis, for example -- we endeavored to figure out how much of each person's life has been spent with...
"Histography" is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new...