Since 1954, the Indian government has been conferring its highest honours — from the venerable Padma Shri to the exclusive Bharat Ratna — on bureaucrats, artists, scientists, engineers, sporting...

At the close of 1998, there were 23 known weblogs on the Internet. A year later there were tens of thousands. What changed? Pyra Labs launched Blogger, the online tool that gave push-button...

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...

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura regarding space missions to Venus from 1961 to 2017 Source: Nasa

MHA@GW, the online master of health administration offered through the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, created this data visualization to compare...

Explore how conversation unfolded at any given moment by clicking on different parts of the timeline. The lines and flying bubbles show the influx of Retweets to a given country.

This visualisation looks at the number of accidents in GB between 2009 and 2013.

While Wikipedia is a most modern creation, its content reflects a historical accumulation of facts and attention. This map of London shows the density of articles in Wikipedia associated with...

It is a commonly held belief amongst Hong Kongers that the Lunar New Year period is usually the year's coldest time. The graphic is a visualisation of daily average temperatures in Hong Kong to see...

This map includes all movie filming permits issued by the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting for the years 2011 through 2013. It comprises a total of 517 movies and 17,241 filming...

Almost everyone has fond memories of Big Bird, Elmo, and the Cookie Monster. And it turns out that these programs were not only fun to watch, they actually help young children learn. Children under...

Open Source visualization of Election Results by state, party, year, and candidate, sorted by region.

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

We have mapped the “ethnicity” of 2,958 nominees in the 6 major award categories at the Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best...

Particles and fragments of light slip by in a stream of time and space to portray the compelling experience of driving. »Porsche BlackBox« reimagines this connection by visualizing racing data as...

Comic-book superheroes battle bad guys. But the two main comic publishers fight commercially in even tougher ways. Alongside the release of 2013's summer superhero movies, The Economist produced a...

Israel’s politics have long been a kaleidoscope of parties split along ideological, ethnic and religious lines. @AdMeara

Given that every mark in a vector image adds a bit to the file, the size of a vector file is a good indication of its complicatedness or fussiness. So when designers talk about a design being...

This evolutionary tree of life poster is unique in that it also serves as a biological classification chart. Over 250 well-known plants, animals, and microbes are listed according to their...

Capricious Earth is big data visualization product, shows statistics from 1976-2016, more than one million global seismic data for nearly 40 years, and the earthquakes of Chinese provinces. This is...

Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is...

The streamgraph shown on this page represents the evolution of Kantian lexicon throughout his philosophical publications. A hundred of the most important words, of the Kant's philosophical...

On the centenary of the start of the Tour de France cycling race this year, we thought about how we could show how the nationalities of the winners changed over time. We chose to adopt a "pinwheel"...

The world of Game of Thrones represented as a transit map. The map incorporates important roads in the series into the routes.

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

A wall chart taking the data for the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil and creating a cohesive solution to present the data in wall chart format. This featured every game that span around the inner...

I spent a week on the couch with Tarantino’s oeuvre, watching people die and swear a blue streak. When someone was killed by a gun or a sword or a venomous snake, or someone was called a...

In this data visualisation, we chart the source material for the highest-grossing film every year since the original blockbuster, –Gone with the Wind' in 1939. Many were inspired by comic books, TV...

As of today, 59 women have been to space. In honor of International Women’s Day, I used the upcoming Mapbox Studio dataset editor and Mapbox GL JS to visualize where each astronaut is from and more...

Comparison of the amount of pension, life expectancy and the retirement age in different countries