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

It's evening rush hour near MacArthur Park, and the streets teem with activity. Crowds pack the crosswalks, weaving around cars that nose through to make right turns. Men pull food carts and...

STUDIO TERP designs datavisualizations and infographics. @STUDIOTERP

Rare earth elements are a group of metals of great economic and technological significance. They possess a great number of irreplaceable properties and play a key role especially with regard to...

The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps below show number...

Why hasn’t wealth inequality improved over the past 50 years? And why, in particular, has the racial wealth gap not closed? These nine charts illustrate how income inequality, earnings gaps,...

I made this using 44 animations that are 9 frames each. That's 396 sketches total - probably the most complicated GIF I've made so far. I am a little sad that I wasn't able to show size properly...

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 chart is read left to right, up to down. Each row represents a year in my life (starting at age 15), and is made up of 365 columns representing days. You can navigate through the dates and...

The days when Leeds city centre's air would be so dense with smoke, grit and danger that the streets had to be evacuated are now, mostly, a memory, but not entirely behind us. As recently as March...

Simple, clean and engaging charts for designers and developers. Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions.

Skeptics of manmade climate change offer various natural causes to explain why the Earth has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. But can these account for the planet's rising temperature?This...

The U.S. Department of Labor tracks how many people die at work, and why. The latest numbers were released in April and cover the last seven years through 2013.

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

How many guests are travelling, checking in or staying at AirBnB accommodations today? Explore today's activity by navigating around an interactive globe.

The second debate on Wednesday night was a three-hour affair, where Donald Trump dominated the conversation – a repeat performance of the first debate. Of words spoken by the 11 candidates, 15...

The world's best infographics and data visualizations showcased, from the makers on Infogr.am. @TSSVeloso

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 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...

This project is a recreation of the original Statistical Atlas of the United States with current data. Using similar styling, the data portrayed is publicly available and comes from government...

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...

Independent scientists from academia and government considered the research on red meat for six months before meeting for a week in Lyon, France, to render a decision. The panel included...

The visualization explores the levels of freedom in countries according to Freedom in the World, Freedom House’s flagship publication, that is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global...

Why Muslims are rising fastest and the unaffiliated are shrinking as a share of the world's population.

This visualisation follows the text from the epic of Finland, the Kalevala, and visualises the paths of the heroes from evil to good.

This analysis by University of Oxford researchers of previous outbreaks shows that the death rate has been greater than 33 percent and that there is often more than one cluster of infections,...

The Tobacco Atlas, Fifth Edition pushes over ten years of research one step further by inviting colleagues tackling closely-related challenges—including protecting the environment, promoting...

To illustrate the destructive power of atomic bombs, this visualisaition analyses the impact the Fat Man bomb would have on modern cities around the world. The radiuses of immediate destruction...

This infographic shows the speed, depth and scale of Russian military diesel-electric submarines, nuclear-powered ballistic missile subs, and nuclear-powered attack subs. Only active submarines are...