"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...
The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones VentureSource are tracking venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. See how the club has expanded since the project began in January 2014...
The Global Language Network is a project by the MIT Media Lab Macro Connections group in collaboration with Aix-Marseille Université, Northeastern MoBS, and Harvard University. We are an...
An interactive illustrating the spread of Nobel laureates across the world and by affiliation.
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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,...
The globe of economic complexity dynamically maps out the entire world production of goods to create an economic landscape of countries around the globe.
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Every dot here is a package. Position of a package is determined by force based graph layout algorithm and usually clusters together packages that depend on each other.
Some packages are...
An animated, interactive world map allowing users to access global bilateral migration data in an informative and engaging way. The application captures the movement of over 215 million migrants ....
The panorama view shows the 50 top songs as individual planetary systems with the original work as the sun. Each planet represents a version of the song and it’s appearance indicates...
Drawing on the same data that powers Google Maps and Google Earth, Project Sunroof uses high-resolution aerial mapping to calculate every roof’s solar energy potential -- and to determine how much...
The world will not end hunger until girls and women are empowered. Empowerment relies on annual data to track the issues that matter most. The United Nations has defined a set of 52 indicators...
With the United States' new B61-12 nuclear bomb, the military can change the explosive power of the each detonation – from an equivalent force of 50,000 tons of TNT down to 300 tons. The bomb...
NASA's New Horizons flyby of Pluto caps more than 50 years of exploring our nearest celestial neighbors. Here's a chance to look back at the moons, planets, asteroids and comets photographed by...
Every year the de Volkskrant newspaper calculates the political influence of 23,000 important non-political individuals in The Netherlands.
By doing so the paper identifies a ‘shadow elite’ of...
Sociotope is a social media experiment made with WebGL. It visualizes the data you left in social networks in a way you possibly haven't seen before. Using motion as a metaphor for relevance,...
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...
Imagine if you could see the way the world is interconnected. News Explorer makes this possible by channeling IBM Watson's Alchemy News API—up-to-the-minute news, 250K articles a day, 70K...
The First World War was initially dubbed the war to end all wars. Sadly, the world has witnessed more than 200 conflicts in the 100 years since. Poppy Field reflects on the human cost of war from...
The Homicide Monitor is the most comprehensive publicly available dataset on murder in the world. It is a data-driven data visualization tool designed to show the distribution, dimensions and...
Interactive map presents the structure of an oil platform "Prirazlomnaya" (Gazprom company). The journalists of the Kommersant publishing house took a series of video interviews with employees...
Every day there are 3billion+ searches on Google. These implicit requests for information give us a unique insight into what the world cares about, intended and unintented.
This project is an infographic illustrating all 276 women who won gold medals at the London Olympics. While watching the London Olympics, Wendy Fox was fascinated by the vast variety in body...
The increasing amount of data overloading us on a daily basis requires us to be more selective in how we divide our attention. Being able to quickly assess what information is relevant to you...