Animal species are going extinct anywhere from 100 to 1,000 times the rates that would be expected under natural conditions. Arguably, the increase results from a variety of human-caused...
The National Park Service created models of sound level and night sky conditions for the coterminous U. S. to assess resource conditions in national parks and adjacent landscapes. These models...
Everyday is a World Day of something. These special days pass through a wide variety of subjects : scourges, diseases, society trends, consumption habits... Sometimes serious or harsh and sometimes...
Information design is not about the gimmick, it is about improving communication and storytelling in partnership with the editorial tone, presentation style and journalism. Sky News Election Design...
We give far too much credence to individual statistics on social and economic well-being. Take the poverty rate. That statistic tells us the share of the population below a specific income...
An analysis of the transactions of the teams playing the 2014 Winter National Tournament. Where do new players come from? What new reinforcements have arrived in the country? Explore these and more...
Using somewhat subjective definitions of "at war" -- Korea counts but Kosovo doesn't in our analysis, for example -- we endeavored to figure out how much of each person's life has been spent with...
Greg Wyler’s first space Internet startup, O3b Networks, has positioned a ring of satellites in medium-earth orbit around the equator—high enough to cover large portions of the planet, but not...
Less than 1% of the people on earth control a staggering 44% of the available wealth.
In fact the top 80 richest people in the world have the same combined wealth as 50% of the World's...
This animation shows the Earth’s warming climate, recorded in monthly measurements from land and sea over 135 years. Temperatures are displayed in degrees above or below the 20th-century...
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...
When that first August kick happens, he carried our hopes.
When we needed to endure, he made sure we presisted.
When we thought all was lost, we looked to him.
He always fought for us.
Film production from 2005 to 2011: The first thirty ranked countries were considered, also highlighting 100% national film production.The flows were represented as if they were sedimentations...
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...
It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator...
matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms.
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...
The map show the crests of the 96 Italian Football Clubs sorted by division (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and grouped into main areas of the same kind. Symbols are portrayed as constellations in the sky,...
This browser visualizes trends and patterns in Google online takedown requests from copyright owners and governments. It provides a monthly overview of requests and targeted domains or...
In the 2014/15 concert season programme, the »Symphonieorchestra des Bayerischen Rundfunks« offers a peek behind the curtain. Here is a selection of the 21 infographics. Formula One in the concert...
Commissioned by BRIGHT for Twitter France, Doris Le Bot creates unique digital creatures from real-time tweets, born from various properties of the users' Twitter profile.
During ab event in...
By creating and sending the data visualisations using analogue instead of digital means, dear-data is what artists have done for ages, which is sketch and try to capture the essence of the life...
It’s the biggest news in the global economy right now: oil is cheaper than anytime since 2009. And the impact is as obvious as the sign at the corner service station, where gas is down to an...
Ever wondered how many carbon emissions are generated by online activity? This infographic by Custom Made shows the level of CO2 emissions generated through emails, searches and cloud storage.
We created a graphic that details the dresses worn by every actress who has won (and accepted) the Best Actress Academy Award since 1929. Using photographic sources, we researched and illustrated...