Incisive analysis and opinion around data visualization techniques, plus tutorials from the renowned University of Miami Knight Chair of Visual Journalism, Alberto Cairo.
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Baseball is arguably the most quantifiable data driven professional sport in the world. From the inception of the game, player performance has been quantified and the analysis has only grown more...
Elephant ivory is now a key source of funding for armed groups in central Africa like the Lord’s Resistance Army. National Geographic commissioned the creation of artificial tusks with hidden GPS...
A timeline of aircraft models and indicating when the model has an accident. This shows interesting relationships about the safety of the models and how they each progressed.
Domestic Data Streamers is a team of developers from Barcelona that have taken on the challenge of transforming raw data into interactive systems and experiences. With a background in new media and...
In December 2015, Paris hosts the COP21, the global climate change summit, where it is imperative for the world nations to come to an agreement regarding their commitment to reducing...
Friends in Space has been the first social network to extend beyond Earth; a 6 months-long open window to make new friends from all over the world and join astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in her...
The German Digital Library provides access to a continuously growing collection that is part of the digital cultural heritage of German cultural and academic institutions. This project attempts to...
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...
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...
THE loony music video “Gangnam Style” surpassed two billion views on YouTube this week, making it the most watched clip of all time. At 4:12 minutes, that equates to more than 140m hours, or more...
Ever wondered how many carbon emissions are generated by online activity? This infographic by Custom Made shows the level of CO2 emissions generated through emails, searches and cloud storage.
The First World War was initially dubbed the war to end all wars. Sadly, the world has witnessed more than 200 conflicts in the 100 years since. Poppy Field reflects on the human cost of war from...
The UK’s electricity generating sites and sub-sea interconnectors. Only currently operating sites of 1 megawatt (MW) capacity or larger are included. The size of the circles is proportional to site...
Thanks to technical innovations, the US has many different power sources to choose from. This infographic shows the share of each one of them, compared to their 1973 value and the extent of the...
Where is the population of Europe actually growing and where is it declining? This map provides a picture of unprecedented detail, showing population growth in 119,406 municipalities from 43...
This infographic displays employee relations challenges with social media. The statistics came from an annual survey, the HR Acuity 6th Annual Employee Relations and Workplace Investigation Survey.
The unstoppable global spread of the internet is encouraging, but wider access alone won’t close the data gap. This interactive visualisation illustrates how the digital divide has...
There is something wrong with the global financial system.
While that idea is widely shared since the 2008 crisis, we still don’t fully understand what needs to be changed, and what we can...
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...
FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization and exploration to understand data & ourselves.
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...
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...
The origin of vehicles in Costa Rica, including the most popular brands, the ports where they're imported into, and the countries they're exported from.