The globe of economic complexity dynamically maps out the entire world production of goods to create an economic landscape of countries around the globe. @romsson

Every day, New York City’s 5.5 million commuters seed the city subways with bacteria from the food they eat, the pets or plants they keep, and their shoes, sneezes and unwashed hands. No two subway...

In a city with 2,105 nameless dead, recorded in the last five years, there will be a new body to recognize.

It's evening rush hour near MacArthur Park, and the streets teem with activity. Crowds pack the crosswalks, weaving around cars that nose through to make right turns. Men pull food carts and...

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 new home for charts and data - use our search engine to source multiple dataviz. Powered by Quartz.

Rare earth elements are a group of metals of great economic and technological significance. They possess a great number of irreplaceable properties and play a key role especially with regard to...

To move within the universe of emotions is important to understand its structure and know what we will find elements in it, such as galaxies, emotions, comets and different types of lines, and...

The Washington Post weighted the style of facial hair, or lack thereof, of all active ballplayers on a scale of 0 to 8 — zero being clean shaven, eight being the grizzliest — then calculated...

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...

An analysis of ~5000 movie posters, pixel by pixel (using 200 pixels on longest edge of poster). Variation is calculated by z-score based on representation of each hue within its genre...

Accurat helps global leaders identify core challenges and develops custom data-driven solutions that seamlessly integrate into internal workflows. http://www.accurat.it/

How does the UK's most recent recession, and subsequent recovery, compare to recessions in other countries and to previous recessions in the UK? http://www.nesta.org.uk/users/cath-sleeman

So you're turning 30 (or you've already turned 30, or you will one day turn 30), and you're saying to yourself, "I'm so excited!" but also "I'm so scared!" (a reference that, if you get, by the...

A visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours. @cambecc

This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1387 genres by The Echo Nest. The...

Yesterday New Zealand’s Minister of Finance tabled the 2015 Budget. The Budget lays out how the Government will spend $NZ88 billion dollars over the coming year.

Climate change is what the world’s population perceives as the top global threat, followed by global economic instability and Isis, according to research conducted by the Pew Research Center

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...

It’s the biggest news in the global economy right now: oil is cheaper than anytime since 2009. And the impact is as obvious as the sign at the corner service station, where gas is down to an...

Rank business leaders on the Journal’s influence grid. Published by The Wall Street Journal

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...

The project is an animation that illustrates a research where scientists have been able to create a very accurate estimate of the total number of trees in the world. This animation illustrates the...

Hundreds of climbers are gathering in Nepal to begin a months-long odyssey up the world’s highest mountain in hopes of spending a few extraordinary moments on its peak. Scroll along the icy...

On April 25, Nepal was hit with the biggest Earthquake in 80 years - but just how big was it?

Mirador is a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets. It enables users to discover correlation patterns and derive new hypotheses from the data.

Infographics are commonly mistaken as a modern invention, but they’ve actually been used to captivate and educate minds throughout history. This motion video reviews the past and present status of...

Starting is half the battle. Not stopping is the rest. Keeping track of your day-to-day activities can help you stick with them. Continuo gives you a colorful, glanceable view of all your...

Given that every mark in a vector image adds a bit to the file, the size of a vector file is a good indication of its complicatedness or fussiness. So when designers talk about a design being...

This project is a recreation of the original Statistical Atlas of the United States with current data. Using similar styling, the data portrayed is publicly available and comes from government...