FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves. As for me, I'm Nathan Yau and I have...

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...

Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click. @tableau

This simulation shows how quickly 10 diseases, from more fatal to less fatal, could spread from one person to 100 unvaccinated people. http://caiweiyi.com/

The changing shape of the world population pyramid, animated and explained. Published by The Economist. @petewinf

"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...

“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...

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...

Rare earth elements are a group of metals of great economic and technological significance. They possess a great number of irreplaceable properties and play a key role especially with regard to...

In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the...

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...

The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps below show number...

We have developed a system that allows a variety of users, from the Studio Librarian to the HR Partner or the Managing Partner of our architectural practice to access relevant, attractive and clear...

When you're hanging out at the beach and you gaze off into the horizon, do you know what is across the ocean from you? http://http://caiweiyi.com/

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 456 characters below all have one thing in common: They're dead. Before the “Game of Thrones” Season 5 premiere, The Washington Post took a look back and noted every on-screen death from the...

Political Polarization in the U.S. Congress has been a topic of much discussion recently. This visualisation shows polarization of the House of Representatives through time, with a focus on which...

A socially-conscious data visualization firm that helps companies and organizations promote information transparency and public awareness. From endangered species, to sustainability, to politics,...

Accurat helps global leaders identify core challenges and develops custom data-driven solutions that seamlessly integrate into internal workflows. http://www.accurat.it/

In partnership with Future Cities Catapult, After the Flood turned London's boroughs into a choropleth - or series of shaded cells - that can contain numerous types of data more effectively than a...

I made this using 44 animations that are 9 frames each. That's 396 sketches total - probably the most complicated GIF I've made so far. I am a little sad that I wasn't able to show size properly...

The world's best infographics and data visualizations showcased, from the makers on Infogr.am. @TSSVeloso

When presenting something new, there’s usually no way past a PowerPoint-packed workshop. Deutsche Post DHL Group has taken a more innovative tack to market its sustainability-building DHL...

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...

There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of...

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...

The visualisation shows the cost of houses around the world, in comparison with the greater or fewer resources available to buy or rent a flat. @thevisualagency

Skeptics of manmade climate change offer various natural causes to explain why the Earth has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. But can these account for the planet's rising temperature?This...

The Counted is a project by the Guardian and you; working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their...

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