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...

Everything oil companies aren’t telling you about the extent of fracking in California, and what it means for your food, water, and health. @AnnaFlagg

This infographic portrays the result of a survey of almost 500 authors, journalists, editors, students, and media and marketing professionals, from best-selling authors, asking them: who is the...

See how money distorts your government, and what you can do about it. @tonyhschu

Originally, this project was a way for Severino Ribecca to develop a knowledge of data visualisation and use as a reference tool. It was then made available for use by anyone in a field that...

Some of the greatest reflections on society take place in film, through complex characters, often falling into familiar patterns called “Tropes”. Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer...

There are more than 1,200 active satellites orbiting earth right now, taking pictures, relaying communications, broadcasting locations, spying on you, and even housing humans. Thanks to a database...

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...

Explore your journey through space in real time. @BBCEarth

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...

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...

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...

By combining data, strategy, design and technology, CLEVERFRANKE creates tools that enable us to explore, understand and change the world to shape our future. @cleverfranke

My goal is to explore new experiences around data consumption beyond the written and visual forms by taking advantage of music's temporal nature and capacity to alter one's mood. Topics will...

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...

The interactive installation On Broadway represents life in the 21st century city through a compilation of images and data collected along the 13 miles of Broadway that span...

Since 1995, the status of girls and women around the world has improved, but a deeper look into the data shows major gaps remain. @ClintonFdn

Data from the National UFO Reporting Center, compared against US Census Data and visualised - sightings per capita, sighting time, even trending shapes of UFOs. @John_M_Nelson

Baseball is arguably the most quantifiable data driven professional sport in the world. From the inception of the game, player performance has been quantified and the analysis has only grown more...

Where can you afford to buy a house? @HelenaBengtsson

The globe of economic complexity dynamically maps out the entire world production of goods to create an economic landscape of countries around the globe. @romsson

After the Flood is a digital product and service design studio working to help clients communicate better with data. http://aftertheflood.co/about

A recent Naked Data newsletter pointed me to this article on Wikipedia which gives a list of when the world was predicted to end throughout recorded history. It is a timeline of when the world...

In today's computerized markets it can be extremely difficult to catch a spoofer amid the deluge of daily trades. @mattleising @rjnskl @adamrpearce

Weather Browser is an interactive tool to visually look up and compare detailed weather data. Select a day and Weather Browser visualizes temperature, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction...

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis,...

The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war. The 15-minute data...

Visualization of oil and gas production divided into Opec countries and non Opec countries @thevisualagency

This interactive tool lets the user compare different large scale objects to the size of the blue whale to better grasp the scale of this majestic animal. Other visualisations include the whale's...

We wanted to see if we could visualize the so-called ocean garbage patches. We start with data from floating, scientific buoys that NOAA has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35-years,...