TwoTone lets you turn data into sound and music. It uses the process of sonification to let you hear data. It’s free and open-source and runs 100% on the web, so you don’t need to download...

Gender inequalities are thought to have first appeared with the advent of agriculture, when a clear distinction was made between the role of women and men in all spheres of social life. Men in...

The data visualisation here is the result of examining a year's worth of physics literature for references to general relativity and its conceptual...

Drugs, guns and sex. Also some data in a project that opens up the Czech crime statistics for the first time in history. Comprehensive and appealing look into police statistics. An important voice...

The Data Driven Experience opens the web page. You dive in and scroll back and forth along the timeline. The space you enter is divided into a left and a right sphere. On the left are the...

In 2010 New York City added 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but that number means little to most people because few of us have a sense of scale for atmospheric...

How has the world's health changed in your lifetime? Put yourself at the centre of our Global Health Check.

I’m the kind of person who binges on real-time charts during election nights, but not this voting season. My interest is waning because of a sense that political divisions have become deeper, less...

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

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...

The world's best infographics and data visualizations showcased, from the makers on Infogr.am. @TSSVeloso

Data Africa is an open data platform designed to provide information on key themes such as: agriculture, climate, poverty and child health for 13 countries in Africa South of the Sahara at the...

Right now, more than half the world is not connected to the internet, and almost 75% of Africa is offline. Why does this matter? For people living in the poorest parts of the world, access to the...

This infographic offers an in-depth look at the state of global fishing. It compares the most used fishing techniques and their impact, the most fished species and their provenance, the global...

During this year’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, the English golfer Tommy Fleetwood shot a record-equalling final round of 63 (7 under par). Although Fleetwood missed out on the...

Due to its popularity and to its policy that allows anyone to edit pages, Wikipedia often becomes a battlefield, where different factions try to impose their view on controversial topics...

It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator...

A wall chart taking the data for the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil and creating a cohesive solution to present the data in wall chart format. This featured every game that span around the inner...

When numbers get into the billions or trillions, they start to lose context. The U.S. national debt is one of those numbers. It currently sits at $19.5 trillion, which is actually such a large...

In 2017, over two million traffic stops occurred in Illinois. Each time an Illinois resident was pulled over, the enforcement officer was required to record the details of the traffic stop,...

An animated and narrative exploration of the key issues that have created economic inequality in the United States today.

A visualisation of search trends and patterns for health issues via Google searches. The project explains how seasonal factors can affect the interest in certain diseases and tells the story of...

A Data Visualization Project presenting Richard's Wagner opera - 'The Ring of the Nibelungen'. The opera is a cycle of four German-language epic music by Richard Wagner. In this project I...

Chartable is a blog written by people who work at Datawrapper, a charting tool for journalists. Together with our readers, we explore how to create better charts and maps: What to consider when...

This visualisation shows the distribution of the 10,568,679 items on Wikipedia, sorted by type. It shows that Wikipedia describes 2,424,305 humans, 588,822 Chinese villages, 152,692 albums, and...

The ENTITY MAPPER is an open source web application for visualizing qualitative data as an interactive node-link diagram. By abstracting away the time-consuming process of constructing a...

How do creatives – composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers – find the time to produce their opus? Mason Currey investigated the rigid Daily Rituals that hundreds of creatives...

Dadaiz interprets the news - from serious issues through to more fun topics - through the lens of easy-to-digest charts and visualizations. @Jishai

The subject of refugees and migrants is extremely sensitive and confusing. Who, why, when and how many? Should governments dictate the amount of migrants coming into Europe and where they should...

The Guardian began investigating Homan Square, a secretive Chicago police warehouse, in February 2015. After launching a transparency lawsuit, the Guardian has forced the Chicago police...