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

Topics and places the world is reporting on right now. Explore what shapes our different perspectives.

Discover how the European Commission is making a difference by reducing the human and environmental costs of air pollution. Six interactive visual segments are woven into a single narrative which...

The world's best infographics and data visualizations showcased, from the makers on Infogr.am. Infogram | Visualoop

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.

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

A simulator of chance and cause of death at every age and according to gender and race.

More than 100 heads of government and 40,000 other attendees are gathered to craft a global climate deal. It’s challenging work, made more complicated by the slew of alliances among...

Examining the gender of writers, producers, and directors who make films that fail the Bechdel test.

Based on Reddit, Data is Beautiful showcases graphs, charts, maps and other forms of data visualization. DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are...

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.

These data visualizations aren't for our community, they're for the non-experts who so often find numbers daunting, disinteresting or just plain dubious. Although they're statistically...

The two large prints (150x75cm) are visualizations of income inequality in Los Angeles and Chicago. They are printed on matte Somerset Velvet paper and mounted on thick wooden boards. The images...

The Subspotting project captured the cell phone reception for the 4 major carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) along the 660 miles of the New York City Subway. Subspotting is the first...

The modest Leicester City becomes champion of the Premier. How has it been possible? Davids vs Goliaths.

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

I can't read music but I can parse it. The talent of reading music has always escaped me which is a little ironic considering I grew up in a musical family. However, I've always enjoyed how sheet...

The Affordability Explorer is an interactive app that maps data about the housing affordability of 584 cities. The main intention is to inform about relation between house price, income and...

With all of their songs being available now on streaming services I thought I would analyze some data about one of the greatest bands of all time: The Beatles. This visualization looks at their...

Data USA puts US government data in your hands. It's a free and open source platform that combines data from a variety of U.S. statistical agencies and brings it to life in more than 1.8 million...

This is a map showing over five years of drought data (285 weeks, combined into a single view) in the United States. The dots are proportionally sized by the amount of time over the past five...

  How many movies are actually about men? What changes by genre, era, or box-office revenue? What circumstances generate more diversity?

#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...

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...

Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.

The IBM Watson News Explorer uses the AlchemyData News API to automatically construct a news information network and present large volumes of news results in an understandable fashion. It uses...

Musicmap tries to provide the ultimate genealogy of all popular music genres and bundles any information regarding music genres and history in one dynamic map, serving as both an educational tool...

Can food be a medium? What is the taste of data? The Data Cuisine Workshop is an experimental investigation on the representation of data with culinary means, or — if you like — edible diagrams....

This investigation of scientific p-values is anchored by an interactive graphic where users can give "p-hacking" a try on their own. These are tricky statistical concepts, made accessible to all...

This project is a small atlas with basic information about our country represented in different infographics using only two colors. We investigated general data about Mexico, as well as about each...