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...
Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...
The Homicide Monitor is the most comprehensive publicly available dataset on murder in the world. It is a data-driven data visualization tool designed to show the distribution, dimensions and...
Interactive map presents the structure of an oil platform "Prirazlomnaya" (Gazprom company). The journalists of the Kommersant publishing house took a series of video interviews with employees...
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...
This infographic is an attempt to present Boston subway information to help people in Boston better understand the trains, how people use the trains, and how the people and trains interact with...
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
We give far too much credence to individual statistics on social and economic well-being. Take the poverty rate. That statistic tells us the share of the population below a specific income...
30,000 plus riders will tackle the third edition of the 100 mile closed road course through the capital and Surrey, taking in such famous sights as Big Ben, the River Thames and Richmond Park...
Superconductor is a web framework for creating data visualizations that scale to real-time interactions with up to 1,000,000 data points. It compiles to WebCL, WebGL, and web workers to unleash...
Work inspired by a passion for complex data visualization and information design. Uses the principles of those areas and combines them with UX and UI expertise to create new digital experiences.
This is an interactive visualisation of results from Cole Henley's 2014 Freelance Rates survey. There were 566 respondents and each is represented by a single cell in this...
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....
A recent Naked Data newsletter pointed me to this article on Wikipedia which gives a list of when the world was predicted to end throughout recorded history. It is a timeline of when the world...
It seems safe to report that dude has supplanted totally as the word most often uttered by American youth, claimed Richard Hill in his 1994 paper on the history of the word dude. That might be...
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...
32 teams qualified for the soccer World Cup finals held in Brazil in June and July 2014. They started in groups of four with the top two sides progressing to the knockout stages. Here, they are...
Since October 2009, health care organizations and their business partners have reported 1,364 large-scale data breaches, each affecting at least 500 people, to the U.S. Department of Health and...
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...
An interactive illustrating the spread of Nobel laureates across the world and by affiliation.
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-weber-former-visiting-fellow
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
On March 14th celebrate Pi Day. Hug π—find a way to do it. For those who favour τ=2π will have to postpone celebrations until July 26th. Some of these folks will argue that π is wrong. If...
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...