This animation shows the Earth’s warming climate, recorded in monthly measurements from land and sea over 135 years. Temperatures are displayed in degrees above or below the 20th-century...
Greg Wyler’s first space Internet startup, O3b Networks, has positioned a ring of satellites in medium-earth orbit around the equator—high enough to cover large portions of the planet, but not...
4.7 million Colombians live abroad. 400,000 of those who left have refugee status or are applying for it. They live in 45 countries worldwide.
Credits:
Data Visualization Chief: Alejandro...
This piece of data visualization aims to deconstruct and represent the emigration flow of Spain between the years of
2008 and 2013.
The system that I created to visualize the total number...
Final projection: Find out who was leading the race in your constituency, according to the final polls. The map shows which party was expected to win each of the 650 seats, which might change...
BBC Howzstat! is a publishing system and new video format for Cricket World Cup match wrap-ups that incorporates automated data graphics and a unified visual style. Due to the need for daily...
FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves.
As for me, I'm Nathan Yau and I have...
Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the...
Wikipedia is the largest and most popular online encyclopaedia, built by the collaboration and coordination of its users. Anyone can edit a page and improve the articles, as long as three core...
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....
FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization and exploration to understand data & ourselves.
On March 14th celebrate Pi Day. Hug π—find a way to do it. For those who favour τ=2π will have to postpone celebrations until July 26th. Some of these folks will argue that π is wrong. If...
Overall, the US is relying less on coal for power. In 40 states, use of coal as a power source (as a share of all power sources) has dropped since 2004. Many of these states are increasingly...
Turns out great minds don’t think alike. Discover how some of the world’s most original artists, writers and musicians structured their day, based on ‘Daily Rituals’ by Mason Currey. Filter the...
This infographic shows the speed, depth and scale of Russian military diesel-electric submarines, nuclear-powered ballistic missile subs, and nuclear-powered attack subs. Only active submarines are...
Russian modern artists' network visualization, made for Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, summer 2015. Size 15x5 meters. Data source: Garage Museum. Tools: Gephi, Adobe Illustrator
I have always loved Disney and Pixar movies, growing up with classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Watching these as a girl, I was mostly oblivious to the similarities between women characters....
Cartesian is the first Italian blog dedicated entirely to Information Design. The site's aim is to explore the subject in all its facets, increase visibility and attention to the matter, and...
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...
This animation distills hundreds of years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births and deaths of notable...