The most popular baby names in 2014 were Amelia and Oliver. However, the latest data has shown that more parents appear to be looking to modern culture for inspiration on the naming of their...

An infographic on California's dry spell that plots data from the Palmer Hydrological Drought Index, a soil-moisture algorithm designed to measure the long-term impact of drought. The graph focuses...

This is a look at a few of the top musical artists in the UK and US. Visualised for each artist is their country of origin, top 25 hits (in either the UK or US), and the country the song peaked...

This data visualisation shows programmes that were broadcast on the BBC in 2013 and 2014, and it shows the people who helped to make those programmes who worked in off-screen roles.

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...

The project is an animation that illustrates a research where scientists have been able to create a very accurate estimate of the total number of trees in the world. This animation illustrates the...

Twelve movements powered by social media that changed the 21st century

A data visualisation detective story.

Interactive Things is a boutique design studio that helps organisations to innovate through design and technology while putting the human at the center of our process. We believe that the best...

To illustrate the destructive power of atomic bombs, this visualisaition analyses the impact the Fat Man bomb would have on modern cities around the world. The radiuses of immediate destruction...

When it comes to the new vehicles people buy in America, the story is all about light-trucks—the broad category that includes pickups, SUVs, crossovers, and minivans. As the economy gains strength...

Population.io aims to make demography – the study of human populations – accessible to a wider audience. Demographic data can play an important role in understanding the social and economic...

Varied and versatile cloud-based charting sweet with a scientific bent https://plot.ly/~jackp/folder/home

The M29 bus route cuts straight through Berlin. It starts in the villa districts in the west of the city, passes through the troubled inner city areas, and ends in Berlin’s trendiest districts....

With a mean temperature of 11.9° Celsius, 2014 was the hottest year on record in Belgium. This graph shows, in eight steps, how Belgium is heating up.

This interactive tool shows the median price of properties within a radius of 1 km from each London tube station.

This is the story of the writers and publishers working in the Islamic Republic of Iran today, told through the contents of Iran’s National Library. Over a million books sit on its shelves, but...

This map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in...

Combine parties as best you can to form a workable government. You need 323 votes, probably, to survive a confidence vote, but you may find that some parties get along together better than...

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...

News Stream Live visualizes the steady stream of news on Spiegel Online - one of Germany’s most-read news pages – and the reactions in social media. Based on different views it can be seen the...

Political Polarization in the U.S. Congress has been a topic of much discussion recently. This visualisation shows polarization of the House of Representatives through time, with a focus on which...

Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...

Climate Central's flagship sea level project, two years in the making, allows users to search or navigate interactive maps to see areas below different amounts of sea level rise and flooding — down...

Fusion’s Take the Plunge charting tool shows the lifetime-income outcomes for various educational options. It might show you, for instance, that a female arts graduate with a degree from a public...

The German Digital Library provides access to a continuously growing collection that is part of the digital cultural heritage of German cultural and academic institutions. This project attempts to...

An analysis of ~5000 movie posters, pixel by pixel (using 200 pixels on longest edge of poster). Variation is calculated by z-score based on representation of each hue within its genre...

An interactive answer to the question: how much traffic and congestion does a presidential visit cause?

Being a journalist can be dangerous. One journalist is killed a week on average for doing their job of bringing news and information to the public. Many more suffer other kinds of attacks, threats,...