This data-driven live wallpaper displays the battery, wireless signal and notifications in a simple wallpaper visualization. Published by Google Creative Lab. http://www.mikkelkoser.com/

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...

There are more than 1,200 active satellites orbiting earth right now, taking pictures, relaying communications, broadcasting locations, spying on you, and even housing humans. Thanks to a database...

This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1387 genres by The Echo Nest. The...

In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the...

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...

Create charts and maps in just four steps. This tool reduces the time you need to create visualizations from hours to minutes. @mirkolorenz

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...

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...

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...

Israel’s politics have long been a kaleidoscope of parties split along ideological, ethnic and religious lines. @AdMeara

Since October 2009, health care organizations and their business partners have reported 1,364 large-scale data breaches, each affecting at least 500 people, to the U.S. Department of Health and...

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...

A visualisation of the links between past, present and future films, shorts and TV shows in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. @FlexibleHead

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...

To move within the universe of emotions is important to understand its structure and know what we will find elements in it, such as galaxies, emotions, comets and different types of lines, and...

Minimal Maps is an ongoing project that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape. The data is accurate for the year 2014 and explores the...

Until recently, it was impossible to measure the popularity of older music. Billboard charts and album sales only tell us about a song’s popularity at the time of its release. But now we have...

Founded by noted analyst Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight made its name aggregating political polls and now features data-heavy stories on a range of topics from science to...

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...

Explore your journey through space in real time. @BBCEarth

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...

See how money distorts your government, and what you can do about it. @tonyhschu

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...

Since December, our model has taken in all published constituency-level polls, UK-wide polls and polling conducted in the nations, and projected the result in each of the 650 Westminster...

Hurricane Katrina was the United States’s most costly and destructive weather disaster in recent history, but how does it compare with other events? @LazaroGamio @DeniseDSLu

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,...

This project is a recreation of the original Statistical Atlas of the United States with current data. Using similar styling, the data portrayed is publicly available and comes from government...

The art and science of digital storytelling from the Media Innovation Program at Northeastern University @NU_CAMD

Accurat helps global leaders identify core challenges and develops custom data-driven solutions that seamlessly integrate into internal workflows. http://www.accurat.it/