The Colorado River — the most important water source for 40 million people in the West — is draining. For a century, seven states engineered ways to wring ever more water from the river, defying...
Every day since Nov. 17, 2014, ProPublica has been testing whether the homepages of international news organizations are accessible to browsers inside China. Of the 18 in our test, 3 are...
A graphic history of The Hour Record, cycling's Blue Riband event. The Limited Edition print places all the previous holders of the 127 year old competition at their respective distances as well as...
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....
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...
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....
This interactive tool lets the user compare different large scale objects to the size of the blue whale to better grasp the scale of this majestic animal. Other visualisations include the whale's...
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In today’s era, collecting data is in many ways, the easy part. Making sense of data in a business context seems like a harder task. Business leaders are still anxious...
Concentrated poverty in the neighbourhoods of the nation's largest urban cores has exploded since the 1970s. The number of high poverty neighbourhoods has tripled and the number of poor people...
The Global Language Network is a project by the MIT Media Lab Macro Connections group in collaboration with Aix-Marseille Université, Northeastern MoBS, and Harvard University. We are an...
Lyra is an interactive environment that enables custom visualization design without writing any code. Graphical “marks” can be bound to data fields using property drop zones; dynamically...
Featuring 1,000 fascinating projects, VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to...
The map show the crests of the 96 Italian Football Clubs sorted by division (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and grouped into main areas of the same kind. Symbols are portrayed as constellations in the sky,...
This infographic shows the market value of the ice cream industry in the world in 2015. The top consumers are shown for each category (Single Portion Dairy Ice Cream, Impulse Ice Cream, Retail...
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...
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...
The most popular baby names in 2014 were Amelia and Oliver. However, the latest data has shown that more parents appear to be looking to modern culture for inspiration on the naming of their...
How does the UK's most recent recession, and subsequent recovery, compare to recessions in other countries and to previous recessions in the UK?
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Something important you'll notice: as more outside groups get involved in the war, each escalates by backing their side, then a rival will also get involved to back the other side. So what you have...
The visualization shows the influence of major world languages. We selected the first 30 languages by number of books translated (translations from the language). The languages are ordered on the...
Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual...
Double pages for Wired about the italian public health according the death rate in the hospital per disease. The visualization shows the main killers and the five best and five worst hospital...
"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...
We created a graphic that details the dresses worn by every actress who has won (and accepted) the Best Actress Academy Award since 1929. Using photographic sources, we researched and illustrated...