The analysis of collaboration patterns both between institutions and among countries. Scientific collaborations play an increasingly important role in driving world-leading research. Nature...

How music taste evolved - every top 5 song, from 1958-2016. 

Is crime in America rising or falling? The answer is not nearly as simple as politicians sometimes make it out to be, because of how the FBI collects and handles crime data from the country’s...

The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. When the effects of the principle are observed, it is known as the Goldilocks...

A century ago The Netherlands counted 6.5 million inhabitants. On March 21st of this year that number officially reached a total of no less than 17 million. That same day we published a combination...

The concept of the cosmic web—viewing the universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity—is deeply ingrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about architecture of this...

Examining the gender of writers, producers, and directors who make films that fail the Bechdel test.

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...

Elementary school: The folded leaflet shows the educational pathways of pupils between kindergarten and secondary school level II between 2001 and 2014. A distinction is drawn between different...

  How many movies are actually about men? What changes by genre, era, or box-office revenue? What circumstances generate more diversity?

Analysis of what makes Serena Williams the best tennis player of all time.

Based on Reddit, Data is Beautiful showcases graphs, charts, maps and other forms of data visualization. DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are...

Alberto Cairo's weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism

'The Missing Migrants Map' is the visual representation of all the incidents recorded by "The Missing Migrants Project". This visualization is based on the data tracked by the "Missing Migrants...

A fascinating look into the effects of non-native, invasive species of bugs and insects on the environment and the science of eradicating them.

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...

PhotoViz is a presentation, curriculum and book about the overlap between photography and data visualization. From a talk at Webstock, the concept matured into a class at NYU’s ITP before being...

PayPal was founded in 1998. Over the course of four years, its founders guided the online payments service provider to one of the biggest tech companies in the world, before being acquired by eBay...

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

This poignant infographic offers an overview of the roots of racism through the centuries, trying to expose the causes of this modern scourge.

Weather forecasts predict future wind conditions only in the range of weeks. Climate predictions look at big changes over years and decades. However, for energy traders, wind farm managers and...

What are investors looking for in companies and founders? The data looks at 890 U.S. startups that were founded from 2009-2015 and received at least $20 million in VC and other equity funding.

Mass killings in the United States are most often carried out with guns, usually handguns, most of them obtained legally. There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and...

The world's best infographics and data visualizations showcased, from the makers on Infogr.am. Infogram | Visualoop

An interactive map of how new words spread across America

China’s rapid economic growth has been the envy of the world for two decades

As temperatures rise and oceans warm, regions will face drastic changes and will be increasingly affected by climate hazards.

Artwork for BBC Focus Magazine , Graphic Science Section , covering all the missions intended to reach Mars Source: Nasa

“Roads to Rome” is a data visualization project exploring one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility: Do all roads really lead to Rome? The project resides somewhere between data...

Effectively communicating climate change is a challenge. The animated climate spiral is a different way to show the observed changes and resonates with a broad audience. The original version...