How music taste evolved - every top 5 song, from 1958-2016. 

I picked the 24 cities based on a balancing act of the following criteria: Cities with data-rich sources (some of the best historic data happens to be provided by international airports in...

“Plastic Garbage Island” is the first cover story published on Visualeyed.com, it’s an article about marine debris with a focus on plastic garbage. The article is enriched by interaction,...

The analysis of collaboration patterns both between institutions and among countries. Scientific collaborations play an increasingly important role in driving world-leading research. Nature...

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, millions were displaced, and once bustling communities became husks of their past selves. While the emptiness of these places is...

Every job from every episode from Star Trek TOS-main, regular extras, and unnamed characters. Even the babysitters and waitresses.

Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness in the world, impairing the vision of around 2.2 million people, of whom 1.2 million are irreversibly blind. It is a health problem in around...

The refugee crisis was all over the news in the last year. This short video explores what impels people to leave their homes, which role the situation in Syria plays for those events and how that...

Clayton Kershaw was one of the best pitchers in baseball in the first half of the season. We analyzed more than 1,600 pitches to illustrate his tendencies. We also allow readers to explore the...

An interactive map of how new words spread across America

The project is a visual representation of the world, seen through the eyes of a pilot. The map has been inspired by Vanhoenacker's book "Skyfaring". On the map are indicated the airports and the...

Traditionally, Martian craters are all named after something on Earth - small towns, scientists, or famous artists. In this map I tried to make a strange planet seem familiar by sharing the Earth...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain activity in seven people while they listened to more than 2 hours of stories from The Moth Radio Hour. This data was used...

Artwork for Visual Data, the column on "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera". The visualization shows a sample of nations, divided by geographical areas and analyzed in...

The purpose of this project is to represent and explain data quickly and effectively in a visual and interactive way that represents and tells a story about one particular aspect of Johannesburg....

Interactive map of the best ice-cream parlours in Germany.

Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis and data visualization to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, sports, science, economics and culture.

Politicians like to say, 'I worked my way through college' to prove their work ethic. But four decades ago, a year of tuition could be worked off in a summer. Compared with today's kids, they had...

Website and blog offering tips on Tableau, data visualization and R.

WTF Vizualizations publishes infographics and dataviz that make no sense, together with a Twitter community analysing why.

Among top-grossing films, which received the absolute worst reviews, relative to the amount of money it made? And where does Batman v Superman fall on this spectrum?

Minute by minute point differentials of 2015 NBA games

This infographic shows the amounts paid by football clubs and charged for players in the summer of 2015.This work allows other readings on the four major European leagues: the size of each or the...

Data is everywhere. FlowingData helps everyone understand it, from different points of view.

Colorful wandering paths emerge when examining the numbers of well known mathematical constants and irrational numbers like pi, e, the golden ratio, and others. Starting at a single point, a...

The drug trade is moving from the street to online cryptomarkets. Forced to compete on price and quality, sellers are upping their game.

Understanding the poverty situation and its many layers in London boroughs. This is a poster intended to be displayed in metro stations in the place where people wait. As users do not have much...

The chart on the left shows the population of each nation in 2012; on the right are the number of murders committed in each nation from 2000 to 2012, in decreasing order, year on year. The lack of...

Visualisation of air bag recalls

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s ‘listening guides’ make use of symbols and morse code-like notation to aid the experience of a live performance.