Cognitive biases are just tools, useful in the right contexts, harmful in others. They’re the only tools we’ve got, and they’re even pretty good at what they’re meant to do. We might as well get...

We have mapped the “ethnicity” of 2,958 nominees in the 6 major award categories at the Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best...

Explore how the Fed has steered the economy during the past 60 years by using its power over rates — and how markets and the economy have responded.

An interactive representation of the relationships in Syria as they stand today.

“Roads to Rome” is a data visualization project exploring one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility: Do all roads really lead to Rome? The project resides somewhere between data...

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

Since the retirement of Nasa’s Space Shuttle in 2011, Soyuz has been the sole means of transportation of crew members to the International Space Station to this day (2016). This graphic attempts to...

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

These animated virus trading cards show the real 3D structure of viruses. Using scientifically accurate structure data from the Worldwide Protein Databank, each trading card reveals the viral...

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

July 2016 was unquestionably the hottest month in 136 years of continuous record. Here's how every month since 1880 compares

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

How do you keep track of security situations on thousands of servers world-wide?

The project is a work of visualization illustrating the living cost of normal residents in Shanghai. We calculated the average price of housing within 1km away from each metro station by collecting...

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura about the production and consumption of Pasta in the world. Source: International Pasta Organisation - The World Pasta Industry Status Report 2013

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Our bodies are extraordinary. They contain elements that have a commercial value, megabytes of data, and trillions of cells, most of which aren't our own.

Paralympians face fewer competitors than Olympians do.

Play this one-minute infographic animation to discover the history of the tea bag and how many people prefer milk and sugar in their cuppa.

Most Googled Game of Thrones characters episode by episode

Aircraft is one of the common transportation methods in modern society. Similar to the ground vehicles, aircraft is also subject to various rules of air traffic control, which is the regulation for...

Objektivno was an internationally acclaimed project of Dnevnik, second largest newspaper in Slovenia, exploring journalism that bridged data, code, text and image. It appeared on the back page of...

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...

What lobbyist are you? This infographic prompts the user to answer questions about climate and energy policy and identify to an organization (NGO, company or professional organization) who shares...

Some teams seem to always strike gold on draft day, while others just find rocks. (We’re looking at you, Cleveland.) Revisit the past 20 NFL drafts to see how adept every team has been at mining...

Commissioned by Future Earth Media Lab and Global Carbon Project to produce an infographic for presentation purposes as well as for highlighting the budget report on social media outlets. The idea...

Mass killings in the United States are most often carried out with guns, usually handguns, most of them obtained legally. There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and...

The history of the world in famous people’s lifespans.

Alberto Cairo's weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism