Vanuatu is the riskiest country to live in, with natural disasters on average affecting more than a third of the population each year, according to the World Risk Report 2015. Countries are...

The authors scanned data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey—which covers 3.5 million households—to find out how people are pairing up.

The ESA Star Mapper visualisation is an exploration of some central aspects of astrometric star catalogues, using data from ESA's Hipparcos mission. 

The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. When the effects of the principle are observed, it is known as the Goldilocks...

Researchers pinpoint the top 15 “Sleeping Beauties,” studies published years ago that are now the talk of the town

Over the course of the last thirty years, more than 7 million Colombians have left their homes and towns, looking for safety away from the conflict between the guerrillas, the Colombian armed...

Billionaires are the richest of the rich. Many young entrepreneurs hope to one-day reach this ultimate financial milestone. But before these entrepreneurs are allowed to join this group, they first...

The fastest and most insane police cars in the world. 

One of the joys of working at the Guardian is that playfulness is very much “on brand.” We knew election results and delegate trackers would be everywhere this year (mostly using the same AP data),...

Analysis of what makes Serena Williams the best tennis player of all time.

Un recorrido por la trayectoria del basquetbolista que empezó su andar como “el próximo Michael Jordan” y la terminó como el “auténtico Kobe Bryant”.

A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names.

A visual survey about the most beautiful super cars in the world from 1963 to 2016.

To mark the completion of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, ‘The Pursuit of Faster’ data visualisation project explores the evolution of medal winning performances across all Olympic Games since...

This text is designed to accompany your study of introductory digital signal processing. It’s an eccentric piece of not-so-rigorous literature with a preoccupation for explaining things using...

“We explore the relationship between life expectancy, access to doctors, and wealth. Overall the picture is that typically, wealthier nations have more doctors per person and a longer life...

This interactive lets users explore the complicated dynamics of election demographics, adjusting the turnout and political leaning of different groups to swing states to the Democrats or the...

In celebration of the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this month, Visa looks back look back at major historical and cultural milestones in the Olympic and Paralympic Games since 1986.

We show how Germany commutes. 

The artwork shows the periodic table structured according to nation and year of discovery Source: Royal Society of Chemistry

Intersections of major roads have been given nicknames like “mixing bowl,” “spaghetti junction,” and “knot”—invoking images of tangled messes, but there's beauty in the chaos. Applying colors...

While there are more people than ever on the NHS’s donor register, there are some body parts that people find it difficult to part with – even after death.

This online infographic shows the current figures about employment in elderly care in the Netherlands. Depicted in strong visuals, one can easily see in one overview what the headlines are. It...

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

The average office worker productivity is now 84% higher than it was forty years ago, and the transformation of our workspace may have provided a helpful hand.  From the classic Knoll to the...

How many times do we hear that "the songs from that artist sound all the same"? How similar are they, really? We applied automatic audio feature extraction and machine learning techniques to...

Recent fossil discoveries have allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolution of mammals from their humble, shrewlike ancestors to the extraordinairy variety of forms, including humans, that...

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

An historical overview on the visualization of data and information. Visualization is a language that could be defined as almost universal, something that makes it possible to translate data and...

#MakeoverMonday is a social experiment run by Andy Kriebel and Andy Cotgreave. Each week Andy Kriebel shares a foreign data set and asks others to turn it into a more meaningful visualisation. The...