We give far too much credence to individual statistics on social and economic well-being. Take the poverty rate. That statistic tells us the share of the population below a specific income...

A visualisation of the links between past, present and future films, shorts and TV shows in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. @FlexibleHead

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...

11:11 is a mobile app and emotion-based social network that prompts cancer survivors daily to reflect upon, express, and track their emotional variance among a private, peer-to-peer community of...

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...

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...

How are global risks interconnected?

In the middle of Germany is Suhl. From there, the road to Freising is not long - just three hours by car. However, considering the average age of its inhabitants, the distance could not be...

Enrolment of children in elementary school in Costa Rica dropped 12% across six years (2009-2014). This feature visualises the situation in the nation's classrooms and looks to the next five years....

Where can you afford to buy a house? @HelenaBengtsson

Dadaiz interprets the news - from serious issues through to more fun topics - through the lens of easy-to-digest charts and visualizations. @Jishai

Chicago is a major transport hub in the US and mobility being its vital economic driver. In light of an estimated population growth of 2 million in the next decades, its infrastructure is in...

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,...

When presenting something new, there’s usually no way past a PowerPoint-packed workshop. Deutsche Post DHL Group has taken a more innovative tack to market its sustainability-building DHL...

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

Real time data with Arudino

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...

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,...

Infographic series around the World Cup and the countries participating. Published by OnLab

Journey into the Amazon region, where thousands of species live in a delicate balance that’s imperiled by logging, mining, agriculture, roadbuilding, oil, and gas drilling. Published by National...

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 infographic portrays the result of a survey of almost 500 authors, journalists, editors, students, and media and marketing professionals, from best-selling authors, asking them: who is the...

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...

Quadrigram is a product by the fine people at Bestiario_, a design firm with more than 10 years experience in the wonderful field of data visualization. @quadrigram

This chart visualises the most decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014 http://www.prooffreader.com/

This datavisualization shows 25 years of precipitation a month. Each circle within a month represents the amount of precipitation on one day.

I squirt some water into my mouth. It's vaguely lemon-lime. As I go to return the water bottle to its cage on my bike, it slips out of my hand, hitting the pavement and bouncing into the bushes....

The 456 characters below all have one thing in common: They're dead. Before the “Game of Thrones” Season 5 premiere, The Washington Post took a look back and noted every on-screen death from the...

Our baseball chronology series was developed for an exhibit featured at the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015. The series of four prints shows a visualized history of the major leagues: which teams...

It’s more than a century since the world’s most famous literary detective made his appearance, but our appetite for his startling deductions is undiminished. Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin go back to...