Enrolment of children in elementary school in Costa Rica dropped 12% across six years (2009-2014). This feature visualises the situation in the nation's classrooms and looks to the next five years....
At the world's largest classical music festival, the work of female composers will comprise only 4 per cent of the programme. But as this data visualisation shows, female composers often featured...
Left Behind is the latest in a series of campaign-oriented data products created for UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Launched to coincide with International Women's Day 2015, Left Behind allows...
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...
“Plastic Garbage Island” is the first cover story published on Visualeyed.com, it’s an article about marine debris with a focus on plastic garbage. The article is enriched by interaction,...
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...
Is crime in America rising or falling? The answer is not nearly as simple as politicians sometimes make it out to be, because of how the FBI collects and handles crime data from the country’s...
Until recently, it was impossible to measure the popularity of older music. Billboard charts and album sales only tell us about a song’s popularity at the time of its release. But now we have...
Language represents our view of the world, and knowing its limits helps us understand how our perception works.
I used the data from Wikipedia’s “Color” entry for different languages. My...
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....
After blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse within the NSA, Thomas Drake was charged under the Espionage Act by the Obama Administration. This interactive short documentary tells his...
After Amelia and Oliver have yet again topped the list of most popular baby names in England and Wales, we look at how other names are faring.
While Mia and Ella were gaining fans, there were...
Among top-grossing films, which received the absolute worst reviews, relative to the amount of money it made? And where does Batman v Superman fall on this spectrum?
I squirt some water into my mouth. It's vaguely lemon-lime. As I go to return the water bottle to its cage on my bike, it slips out of my hand, hitting the pavement and bouncing into the bushes....
With the Australian federal election drawing near, we set out to explain why Australians had varying levels of influence on the outcome.
We included various factors which could effectively...
When it comes to the new vehicles people buy in America, the story is all about light-trucks—the broad category that includes pickups, SUVs, crossovers, and minivans. As the economy gains strength...
Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...
Some teams seem to always strike gold on draft day, while others just find rocks. (We’re looking at you, Cleveland.) Revisit the past 20 NFL drafts to see how adept every team has been at mining...
The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...
This infographic is an attempt to present Boston subway information to help people in Boston better understand the trains, how people use the trains, and how the people and trains interact with...
Flagstories is an analysis of world flags according to layouts, colours, similarities, proportions, age, complexity, history, meaning and symbolism.
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The Power Players is an interactive browser and data visualisation of the key stories from the Panama Papers leak. It was commissioned from Kiln by the International Consortium of Investigative...