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...

As anyone who has recently taken a road trip can attest, there are a lot of places in the United States with very distinctive names. Many of us at Fathom are fascinated by geography and the subtle...

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...

This project is the work of a volunteer for the Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation, an NGO based in Greece. Working with raw data with the intent of providing the organisation with a...

How does the UK's most recent recession, and subsequent recovery, compare to recessions in other countries and to previous recessions in the UK? http://www.nesta.org.uk/users/cath-sleeman

ScoreWithData Context In today’s era, collecting data is in many ways, the easy part. Making sense of data in a business context seems like a harder task. Business leaders are still anxious...

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

The First World War was initially dubbed the war to end all wars. Sadly, the world has witnessed more than 200 conflicts in the 100 years since. Poppy Field reflects on the human cost of war from...

Motion infographic based around the Battle of Stalingrad, showing the causes of the Red Army's victory. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-popov-6bb21a46

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...

Explore your favourite football club throughout your lifetime, with graphs and stats on almost every aspect of their history. Published by BBC Sport

Where can you afford to buy a house? @HelenaBengtsson

Every year the de Volkskrant newspaper calculates the political influence of 23,000 important non-political individuals in The Netherlands. By doing so the paper identifies a ‘shadow elite’ of...

The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war. The 15-minute data...

An infographic based on a survey of fears that I conducted, which focuses on the correlation of the age the fear began, how severe it is, and what type of fear it is. It also explores whether...

Fast Company's Infographic of the Day tells interesting and topical stories in a fresh, visual way, with new posts daily.

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...

There is something wrong with the global financial system. While that idea is widely shared since the 2008 crisis, we still don’t fully understand what needs to be changed, and what we can...

EagerEyes is Robert Kosara’s place to reflect on the world of information visualization and visual communication of data. The goal is to help digest things that are happening in the field and...

This animation shows the Earth’s warming climate, recorded in monthly measurements from land and sea over 135 years. Temperatures are displayed in degrees above or below the 20th-century...

Many economists believe the gap between the rich and everyone else is widening. Here's a look at why. Published by The Wall Street...

I am a freak for the American road trip. And I'm not alone, as some of this country's best writers have taken a shot at describing that quintessentially American experience. “There is no such...

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...

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...

This is a summary of the history of (Western) philosophy showing the positive/negative connections between some of the key ideas/arguments of the philosophers. This first version is based mostly on...

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,...

More than 12,000 people in Germany are currently waiting for a transplant operation. This project looks at organ donation from the point of view of both donors and recipients, visualising the...

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...

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 changing shape of the world population pyramid, animated and explained. Published by The Economist. @petewinf