Although Lightyear.fm has radiowaves reaching over 100 lightyears into space, due to the Inverse Square Law of Propagation, any terrestrial radio broadcast would become nothing but background...

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...

Many of the economic trends that have defined countries’ fortunes over the past year are especially striking when seen visually—how in the U.S., for example, unemployment declined, or how, in...

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,...

We studied the dynamics of innovations in the management of prostate cancer between 1980 and 2014 and calculated their distribution between 2015 and 2030. Our work is based on a semantic and...

Our World In Data covers a wide range of topics and visualizes the empirical evidence of how living standards changed over the last decades, centuries, and millennia.

In 1918, the First World War ended and millions of men returned from the front line to their wives and sweethearts. Two years later, Britain experienced a sudden spike in birth rate, a ‘baby boom’,...

In a city with 2,105 nameless dead, recorded in the last five years, there will be a new body to recognize.

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...

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...

Asia is the world’s fastest-growing aviation market. But experts worry the continent is ill-equipped to handle the increasing traffic. Here are the major risks, illustrated through the course of a...

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

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

A visualization about Italian soccer fans and their evolution through years, based on a survey from Polis

A data visualisation detective story.

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...

This map shows the collaboration networks between researchers in different cities. Apart from its aesthetic qualities, the map is useful to illustrate some interesting collaboration patterns....

Coal and natural gas are the most common sources for electricity in the country, but coal represents a declining share. The new Clean Power Plan seeks to accelerate that trend by requiring...

Looking back, we know quite a bit about who has been put to death in the United States. We know that the last person to be executed was Jerry William Correll, who died five days ago by lethal...

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...

William Shakespeare coined these 300 words and phrases over 400 years ago. How often do we still use them?

Every day we hear about weather conditions for the future times, what happen if we take a step back and try to see what happened in the past years? The aim of this project is to visualize the...

Everyday is a World Day of something. These special days pass through a wide variety of subjects : scourges, diseases, society trends, consumption habits... Sometimes serious or harsh and sometimes...

Visualisingdata.com provides readers with a rich variety of content that charts the development of the data visualisation field. The site is managed and edited by data visualization specialist Andy...

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...

Maps Of Street Layouts Colored By Orientation

Last year, I made a series of visualizations based on playlist data from my favorite local radio station: KEXP. Well, it’s a new year and there’s new data, so here I go again! First, let’s start...

The interactive visualisation shows where the government money is spent. Readers can see the data by department and functional classification.

We have trouble understanding and accepting mass deaths . For example, numbers like 1; 2; 14; 20; 50, are all quantities that we encounter quite frequently and therefore we’re able to rationalize...

A sweet of mapping tools for beautiful detailed interactive maps