Bicycle makers continue to produce lighter machines with better grip and more powerful brakes. Riders have been flirting with unheard of speeds during descents, touching 70 miles an hour. And...

The world will not end hunger until girls and women are empowered. Empowerment relies on annual data to track the issues that matter most. The United Nations has defined a set of 52 indicators...

Russian modern artists' network visualization, made for Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, summer 2015. Size 15x5 meters. Data source: Garage Museum. Tools: Gephi, Adobe Illustrator

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...

Double pages for Wired about the italian public health according the death rate in the hospital per disease. The visualization shows the main killers and the five best and five worst hospital...

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...

On March 14th celebrate Pi Day. Hug π—find a way to do it. For those who favour τ=2π will have to postpone celebrations until July 26th. Some of these folks will argue that π is wrong. If...

For the Dutch version of the Deloitte Global Mobile Consumer Survey, Deloitte asked 2000 residents of the Netherlands about their mobile phone behaviour. The respondents gave information about...

Every day since Nov. 17, 2014, ProPublica has been testing whether the homepages of international news organizations are accessible to browsers inside China. Of the 18 in our test, 3 are...

Guided by experts, ProPublica calculated death and complication rates for surgeons performing one of eight elective procedures in Medicare, carefully adjusting for differences in patient health,...

An interactive tool for healthcare providers to explore data from clinical trials. Peer-reviewed manuscripts can only describe a small fraction of the data generated in a clinical trial. Our tool...

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...

The Guardian began investigating Homan Square, a secretive Chicago police warehouse, in February 2015. After launching a transparency lawsuit, the Guardian has forced the Chicago police...

A representation of the Solar System in perfect scale: the moon is one pixel, the sun, the planets and the space between them, all in correct scale.

What kind of names do we see every day in our cities and villages throughout life?

A landscape of the phylogeny and anatomy of all major insect families, taken from handwritten notes on entomology.

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,...

Presidential candidates like to talk about leadership, but whom do they follow? Bloomberg Politics scoured the Twitter accounts of Republicans eyeing the White House for clues about their...

Left Behind is the latest in a series of campaign-oriented data products created for UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Launched to coincide with International Women's Day 2015, Left Behind allows...

This website allows the user to explore the data around the migrant crisis in Europe, including the routes, the fatalities, and the response of the different European countries. @Vectorbender

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...

Visual.ly works with the world's best creative talent to create infographics, videos and reports designed to promote brands.

On April 25, Nepal was hit with the biggest Earthquake in 80 years - but just how big was it?

Energy is complicated. The goal of the U.S. of Energy is to help you understand energy realities in America. Staying away from politics and not playing favourites with any individual resource....

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...

Information is Beautiful Studio has championed the use of data visualization and information design to explore new directions in storytelling with data.

We created a graphic that details the dresses worn by every actress who has won (and accepted) the Best Actress Academy Award since 1929. Using photographic sources, we researched and illustrated...

This article examines the performance of sprinters in various races, Olympic games and World Championships, to try to predict the next winners.

Redburn is Europe’s largest independent equity research and broking firm and has a premium position in the market. Redburn IDEAS helps fund managers, sales people, and analysts understand and...