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...

The art and science of digital storytelling from the Media Innovation Program at Northeastern University @NU_CAMD

The interactive installation On Broadway represents life in the 21st century city through a compilation of images and data collected along the 13 miles of Broadway that span...

The Contracts Portal was developed as a research project for the City of Montreal, as it moves towards greater transparency within its contracting. The city has been actively researching,...

Create charts and maps in just four steps. This tool reduces the time you need to create visualizations from hours to minutes. @mirkolorenz

This chart is read left to right, up to down. Each row represents a year in my life (starting at age 15), and is made up of 365 columns representing days. You can navigate through the dates and...

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...

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...

UK political party pass you by? Play it again - 8-bit videogame style music and animation!

This is a look at a few of the top musical artists in the UK and US. Visualised for each artist is their country of origin, top 25 hits (in either the UK or US), and the country the song peaked...

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...

Although Lightyear.fm has radiowaves reaching over 100 lightyears into space, due to the Inverse Square Law of Propagation, any terrestrial radio broadcast would become nothing but background...

We have developed a system that allows a variety of users, from the Studio Librarian to the HR Partner or the Managing Partner of our architectural practice to access relevant, attractive and clear...

Seaborn is a Python visualization library based on matplotlib. It provides a high-level interface for drawing attractive statistical graphics.

The artwork shows the 100 most valuable brands from 2010 to 2015.The size of the circles represents the value of the brand while the lines show the fluctuation in ranking year after year. Some...

William Shakespeare coined these 300 words and phrases over 400 years ago. How often do we still use them?

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...

IN PIECES IS AN INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION-TURNED-STUDY INTO 30 OF THE WORLD’S MOST INTERESTING BUT UNFORTUNATELY ENDANGERED SPECIES — THEIR SURVIVAL LAYING LITERALLY, IN PIECES.

"Histography" is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new...

Where can you afford to buy a house? @HelenaBengtsson

In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions. Keep scrolling....

…and which is the noirest film of all? These questions are answered in our infographic dedicated to the shadowy world of one of classic Hollywood’s most beloved subgenres.

This web application visualizes how successful universities or research-focused institutions collaborate.

Double pages for Wired about the italian public health according the death rate in the hospital per disease. The visualization shows the main killers and the five best and five worst hospital...

In US presidential primaries, endorsements have been among the best predictors of which candidates will succeed and which will fail. This visualisation keeps track.

We studied the dynamics of innovations in the management of prostate cancer between 1980 and 2014 and calculated their distribution between 2015 and 2030. Our work is based on a semantic and...

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

Fusion’s Take the Plunge charting tool shows the lifetime-income outcomes for various educational options. It might show you, for instance, that a female arts graduate with a degree from a public...

Using retained call data, what can we find about about 'Will'? 

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...