The visualization shows the influence of major world languages. We selected the first 30 languages by number of books translated (translations from the language). The languages are ordered on the...

Track the number of sectors gaining or losing jobs each month. Boxes are shaded on percentage change from the previous month in each sector's payrolls. Published by WSJ @andrewvandam

Houseplants are a huge interiors trend right now. But never mind how great they look, there’s also a slew of benefits to bringing greenery indoors. They purify the air, help boost healing and...

Given that every mark in a vector image adds a bit to the file, the size of a vector file is a good indication of its complicatedness or fussiness. So when designers talk about a design being...

Final projection: Find out who was leading the race in your constituency, according to the final polls. The map shows which party was expected to win each of the 650 seats, which might change...

In US presidential primaries, endorsements have been among the best predictors of which candidates will succeed and which will fail. This visualisation keeps track.

This animation distills hundreds of years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births and deaths of notable...

The project is a visual analysis of the letters written by Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theodorus ("Theo") between 1873 and 1890. For each letter an automatic linguistic extraction has...

An animated, interactive world map allowing users to access global bilateral migration data in an informative and engaging way. The application captures the movement of over 215 million migrants ....

The Homicide Monitor is the most comprehensive publicly available dataset on murder in the world. It is a data-driven data visualization tool designed to show the distribution, dimensions and...

Imagine if you could see the way the world is interconnected. News Explorer makes this possible by channeling IBM Watson's Alchemy News API—up-to-the-minute news, 250K articles a day, 70K...

This infographic explores the border crisis that the US experiences in the current violent climate of South American countries, and especially the plight of unaccompanied children trying to reach...

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

This datavisualization shows 25 years of precipitation a month. Each circle within a month represents the amount of precipitation on one day.

This map includes all movie filming permits issued by the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting for the years 2011 through 2013. It comprises a total of 517 movies and 17,241 filming...

The Contracts Portal was developed as a research project for the City of Montreal, as it moves towards greater transparency within its contracting. The city has been actively researching,...

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...

The initially loaded 350 are generally well-known sites. Sites are ordered by size by referring subnets and their size is determined by their referring domains.

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis,...

The joys of the airport: Late or canceled flights. Long lines. Crowded terminals. Overpriced, appalling food. Bloomberg Businessweek surveyed more than 3,000 frequent flyers, analyzed travel...

In today's computerized markets it can be extremely difficult to catch a spoofer amid the deluge of daily trades. @mattleising @rjnskl @adamrpearce

Lyra is an interactive environment that enables custom visualization design without writing any code. Graphical “marks” can be bound to data fields using property drop zones; dynamically...

This project is an infographic illustrating all 276 women who won gold medals at the London Olympics. While watching the London Olympics, Wendy Fox was fascinated by the vast variety in body...

Real time data with Arudino

“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...

This infographic explains the function of the European Court of Human Rights, why it exists and whom it protects.

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...

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...

This browser visualizes trends and patterns in Google online takedown requests from copyright owners and governments. It provides a monthly overview of requests and targeted domains or...