Compare UK demographic data with this handy tool.

We are immersed in a digital age where our data is collected, mined, and shared by companies trying to target and control our behaviors. To inform people about targeted advertisements, a...

Through the Global Grand Challenges initiatives, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded 2,390 grants * so far in 90 countries. Each grid on this image of Bill & Melinda represents...

A series of infographics, developed for UNWOMEN’s new flagship report, 'Turning promises into action', uncover significant gaps for women’s empowerment. The infographic show how gender equality is...

How inclusive are beauty brands around the world?

Percentages of the world population as 100 people.

Many find themselves arguing with someone on the Internet, especially in these days fraught with political tensions. A great tool, the web also seems to drive dispute. A classic essay from one of...

Ten days after launching a quiz in which iROZHLAS.cz readers could compare their estimates of Czechs with real statistics, they gathered 41,000 individual answers. What did the readers...

Both men and women have crafted the world as we know it. Now, just for a minute, take a quick look around. Think about your work or your hobbies. How many women are a reference in those fields?

The surprising link between your birthday and place of birth— in one heat map

These are a couple of polls inspired by the Sherman Kent CIA study shown in the images below (discussion in this thread). I was super happy when they matched up. The raw data came from...

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a website dedicated to the social network of early modern Britain, 1500-1700. At sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com, scholars, students, and citizen humanists can...

What pageviews tell us about how famous people are remembered after they die.

This piece explores job prospects for male and female college graduates. Through extensive data analysis, research and reporting, it finds that the careers that college-educated women take tend to...

An interactive guide to human networks.

Every weekend, Shanghai People’s Park will be packed by groups of people, who are mostly middle aged and have children that they deem should get married soon, if not already late, and who're in...

Using census data we created a voronoi tessellation of majority race data and then mapped it at the national and local level. Maps reveal macro- and micro-views of how people live in the United...

Visualizing student's academic performances across four subjects based on National Achievement Survey (2014).

The way we speak has an enormous effect on our identities. As part of a series on digital identity, we used a UNESCO dataset and D3.js to create a visual essay about the world's endangered...

The Newspaper Diversity Survey measures the percentage of women and minorities working in US newsrooms. The results from 2017’s survey are in.

The theme is delicate and the work speaks for itself. Small details that make all the difference when we transmit information. take a deep breath and take a look at this breathtaking data...

This is an "interactive data comic narrative" of the findings of a survey conducted by the World Bank on the challenges women face in the quest for economic opportunity around the world.

Gaming has traditionally been considered a male-dominated pastime. With this work, we aim to shatter this misconception and present beautiful, visual evidence that women are a highly valuable...

In 1939, ethnomusicologists John and Ruby Lomax set out on a 6,502 mile journey across the Southern United States collecting folksongs on behalf of the Library of Congress. Using maps, music and...

This is an infographic that represents some less than pleasant facts about love in regards to the digital world.  

A visualization showing the connections of the Myers Briggs personality types.

It’s in the details of 100,000 moments. I analyzed the crowd-sourced corpus to see what brought the most smiles.

"The Next Bechdel Test" was a months-long project searching for and testing ways to measure inclusion and representation in the American film industry. With input from professionals in and around...

The State Library of New South Wales collects material to provide a documentary record of life in one of the largest Australian states. The documentary record of life in New South Wales is now,...

This chart approaches the fundamental question from a data-driven perspective, and it provides one potential solution: money does buy some happiness, but only to a limited extent.