Using the publicly available transcriptions of all Academy Awards speeches (from Oscars.org), we analysed 450 speeches made by Best Actors, Best Actresses, Best Directors, Best Supporting Actors,...

A visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours. @cambecc

This is the story of the writers and publishers working in the Islamic Republic of Iran today, told through the contents of Iran’s National Library. Over a million books sit on its shelves, but...

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...

News Stream Live visualizes the steady stream of news on Spiegel Online - one of Germany’s most-read news pages – and the reactions in social media. Based on different views it can be seen the...

By combining data, strategy, design and technology, CLEVERFRANKE creates tools that enable us to explore, understand and change the world to shape our future. @cleverfranke

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...

Elephant ivory is now a key source of funding for armed groups in central Africa like the Lord’s Resistance Army. National Geographic commissioned the creation of artificial tusks with hidden GPS...

The panorama view shows the 50 top songs as individual planetary systems with the original work as the sun. Each planet represents a version of the song and it’s appearance indicates...

China's imports overall are down by 14.6% over 2015. Find out what happens if this decline continues for the rest of the year - or worsens - and how that loss compares to each country's...

This simulation shows how quickly 10 diseases, from more fatal to less fatal, could spread from one person to 100 unvaccinated people. http://caiweiyi.com/

It shows how each species' U.S. range - the areas where it can be found - will change by 2075. 

In the early euphoria following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Germany moved quickly to erase the scars of its Cold War division. But East Germany’s legacy remains visible in...

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...

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...

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

This web application visualizes how successful universities or research-focused institutions collaborate.

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...

The globe of economic complexity dynamically maps out the entire world production of goods to create an economic landscape of countries around the globe. @romsson

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...

Big Data techniques and data from over 300,000 cellphone users living in Barcelona, duly aggregated and anonymized, provided the basis for a new map of commuting patterns in the city. Specifically,...

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....

Greg Wyler’s first space Internet startup, O3b Networks, has positioned a ring of satellites in medium-earth orbit around the equator—high enough to cover large portions of the planet, but not...

So you're turning 30 (or you've already turned 30, or you will one day turn 30), and you're saying to yourself, "I'm so excited!" but also "I'm so scared!" (a reference that, if you get, by the...

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

These are New Zealand politicians’ social media fingerprints. The subject of the graph sits in the centre. The MPs who they are connected to in some fashion form a ring around the edge,...

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...

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

An infographic on California's dry spell that plots data from the Palmer Hydrological Drought Index, a soil-moisture algorithm designed to measure the long-term impact of drought. The graph focuses...

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...