Until recently, it was impossible to measure the popularity of older music. Billboard charts and album sales only tell us about a song’s popularity at the time of its release. But now we have...
Choosing a university is an issue that every Russian family finds itself facing at some point. This analysis of the higher education landscape over the past few years might be helpful in making...
Since December, our model has taken in all published constituency-level polls, UK-wide polls and polling conducted in the nations, and projected the result in each of the 650 Westminster...
During the early part of 2012, the City of Oakland's mayor Jean Quan was claiming that 90 percent of the city's homicides and shootings occurred in 100 of the city's 6,560 blocks, and that a plan...
629,000 girls (aged 0–6 years) are estimated to be missing in India every year. The majority of them are aborted, others are killed, abandoned or neglected to death just because they are girls....
Bicycle makers continue to produce lighter machines with better grip and more powerful brakes. Riders have been flirting with unheard of speeds during descents, touching 70 miles an hour. And...
This project required me to create two posters that represented the activities of my day. One poster consists of my illustrations and the other poster is a typography piece.
Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness in the world, impairing the vision of around 2.2 million people, of whom 1.2 million are irreversibly blind. It is a health problem in around...
While there are more people than ever on the NHS’s donor register, there are some body parts that people find it difficult to part with – even after death.
An infographic describing point after point the main transformations introduced by the Obama's Health Care Reform Bill, and their consequences over years, together with the net changes in the U.S....
Risk assessment tools -- tests that are supposed to measure a prisoners risk of recidivism -- are coming into increasing use. These tools can reduce the size of prison populations and avoid...
How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...
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...
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...
Although the Force is vague and entirely fictitious, this infographic identifies, measures, and categorises use of the Force of the first 6 Star Wars movies.
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...
In May, the WSJ illustrated the differences in song preferences in New York by using data from e-jukeboxes.
But what if we were to zoom that lens onto the rest of the country?
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The UK’s electricity generating sites and sub-sea interconnectors. Only currently operating sites of 1 megawatt (MW) capacity or larger are included. The size of the circles is proportional to site...
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...
Looking back, we know quite a bit about who has been put to death in the United States. We know that the last person to be executed was Jerry William Correll, who died five days ago by lethal...
By analysing a huge amount of data, this project shows a statistical analysis of more than 2 million chess games and throws light onto the most common openings, winning moves and interesting...
The second debate on Wednesday night was a three-hour affair, where Donald Trump dominated the conversation – a repeat performance of the first debate. Of words spoken by the 11 candidates, 15...
This is the average day of 1,000 Americans. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, I modeled a day as a time-varying Markov chain and simulated their time to the minute. The animated...