In the early euphoria following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Germany moved quickly to erase the scars of its Cold War division. But East Germany’s legacy remains visible in...

There are more than 1,200 active satellites orbiting earth right now, taking pictures, relaying communications, broadcasting locations, spying on you, and even housing humans. Thanks to a database...

By creating and sending the data visualisations using analogue instead of digital means, dear-data is what artists have done for ages, which is sketch and try to capture the essence of the life...

There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of...

Projects in the fields of communication design, visualization and design research for national and international clients as well as self-initiated and non-commercial...

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...

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis,...

For the Dutch version of the Deloitte Global Mobile Consumer Survey, Deloitte asked 2000 residents of the Netherlands about their mobile phone behaviour. The respondents gave information about...

Data from the National UFO Reporting Center, compared against US Census Data and visualised - sightings per capita, sighting time, even trending shapes of UFOs. @John_M_Nelson

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

Explore your journey through space in real time. @BBCEarth

Netherlands vs Costa Rica World Cup game analysis. Team´s Players concentration movement in field, ball possession, shots and scores, etc. @Johan_Umana

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...

An infographic on California's dry spell that plots data from the Palmer Hydrological Drought Index, a soil-moisture algorithm designed to measure the long-term impact of drought. The graph focuses...

Hurricane Katrina was the United States’s most costly and destructive weather disaster in recent history, but how does it compare with other events? @LazaroGamio @DeniseDSLu

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...

The 456 characters below all have one thing in common: They're dead. Before the “Game of Thrones” Season 5 premiere, The Washington Post took a look back and noted every on-screen death from the...

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...

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...

Since 1995, the status of girls and women around the world has improved, but a deeper look into the data shows major gaps remain. @ClintonFdn

The visualization shows the Italian cultural production system in 2014, focusing on three factors: the effect of the cultural system on the total tourists’ flow; the effect of the...

We wanted to see if we could visualize the so-called ocean garbage patches. We start with data from floating, scientific buoys that NOAA has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35-years,...

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

Weather Browser is an interactive tool to visually look up and compare detailed weather data. Select a day and Weather Browser visualizes temperature, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction...

Many economists believe the gap between the rich and everyone else is widening. Here's a look at why. Published by The Wall Street...

Makes automatic Isotype diagrams - render your data in a 1940's style statistical visual langage! The application gives you the choice between several isotype layouts. A broad library contains...

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 graphics and data-rich profile of the man who creates the Madden Ratings, the numerical grades used in EA Sports' Madden NFL football videogame franchise. Published by...

This chart visualises the most decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014 http://www.prooffreader.com/

Storytelling with Data teaches the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. @storywithdata