THE loony music video “Gangnam Style” surpassed two billion views on YouTube this week, making it the most watched clip of all time. At 4:12 minutes, that equates to more than 140m hours, or more...
Rents are on the rise in Berlin, and the reasons are manifold. Online portals of the so-called “sharing economy”, such as Airbnb, are marketing to tourists and have proven to be a profitable...
Featuring 1,000 fascinating projects, VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to...
This year's edition of PRB's annual World Population Data Sheet provides the latest data on 20 population, health, and environment indicators for the world, major regions, and more than 200...
Originally, this project was a way for Severino Ribecca to develop a knowledge of data visualisation and use as a reference tool. It was then made available for use by anyone in a field that...
It seems safe to report that dude has supplanted totally as the word most often uttered by American youth, claimed Richard Hill in his 1994 paper on the history of the word dude. That might be...
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...
We wanted to see if we could visualize the so-called ocean garbage patches. We start with data from floating, scientific buoys that NOAA has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35-years,...
Noise in some areas of Berlin has reached levels considered hazardous to health. The Berliner Morgenpost interactive map shows where the noise in Berlin is potentially harmful, detailing the...
D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of...
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...
Looking at six big issues—interracial marriage, prohibition, women’s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana — this visualisation shows how this has happened in the...
Overall, the US is relying less on coal for power. In 40 states, use of coal as a power source (as a share of all power sources) has dropped since 2004. Many of these states are increasingly...
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...
By analysing over 1,250 attempted transactions – both successful and failed – we can observe the ebb and flow of Chinese investments and contracts. Momentum has grown since 2010 with the energy and...
My goal is to explore new experiences around data consumption beyond the written and visual forms by taking advantage of music's temporal nature and capacity to alter one's mood. Topics will...
This infographic shows the first 100 historical figures in order of influence according to Pantheon, a Macro connections group of the MIT Media Lab of Boston project which took into account...
An analysis of the transactions of the teams playing the 2014 Winter National Tournament. Where do new players come from? What new reinforcements have arrived in the country? Explore these and more...
Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual...
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...
Friends in Space has been the first social network to extend beyond Earth; a 6 months-long open window to make new friends from all over the world and join astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in her...
For The Migration Observatory in Oxford, CLEVERFRANKE created two different visualizations exploring the topic of migration; the first focusing on quantitative data taken from the 2011 UK census,...
Domestic Data Streamers is a team of developers from Barcelona that have taken on the challenge of transforming raw data into interactive systems and experiences. With a background in new media and...
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...
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 unstoppable global spread of the internet is encouraging, but wider access alone won’t close the data gap. This interactive visualisation illustrates how the digital divide has...
Something important you'll notice: as more outside groups get involved in the war, each escalates by backing their side, then a rival will also get involved to back the other side. So what you have...