This is the story of the writers and publishers working in the Islamic Republic of Iran today, told through the contents of Iran’s National Library. Over a million books sit on its shelves, but...

You’re a social scientist with a hunch: The U.S. economy is affected by whether Republicans or Democrats are in office. Try to show that a connection exists, using real data going back to 1948....

Every year, the World Economic Forum brings together all the most recognisable figures in business and politics. With all eyes on Davos, we decided to turn the optics upside down and see who...

Data visualization that mirrors vigorous urbanization being processed in every country across the world and top 500 biggest urban areas since 1975.

This analysis by University of Oxford researchers of previous outbreaks shows that the death rate has been greater than 33 percent and that there is often more than one cluster of infections,...

The changing shape of the world population pyramid, animated and explained. Published by The Economist. @petewinf

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...

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

We have trouble understanding and accepting mass deaths . For example, numbers like 1; 2; 14; 20; 50, are all quantities that we encounter quite frequently and therefore we’re able to rationalize...

The Public Theater has staged Shakespeare in the Park since 1962—one of New York City’s most beloved summer traditions. We were interested in visualizing a complex data set of productions,...

Over the last year Private Eye has revealed the extent of ownership of British land by offshore companies, generally for tax avoidance and often to conceal dubious wealth. Now the Eye has...

In the category Best Picture. And why did they win? The answer in release dates, minutes and genres.

11:11 is a mobile app and emotion-based social network that prompts cancer survivors daily to reflect upon, express, and track their emotional variance among a private, peer-to-peer community of...

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...