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...

FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization and exploration to understand data & ourselves.

During the 2015 Superbowl 2.6 million tweets were being published about predictions for the game and about the coveted $4 million advertising spots during the event. In the thick of this action,...

In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions. Keep scrolling....

A data visualisation detective story.

Hurricane Katrina was the United States’s most costly and destructive weather disaster in recent history, but how does it compare with other events? @LazaroGamio @DeniseDSLu

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...

By creating and sending the data visualisations using analogue instead of digital means, dear-data is what artists have done for ages, which is sketch and try to capture the essence of the life...

Bike commuting throughout the city is often like this: cobbled together out of a bit of bike lane here, an unprotected shoulder there, a scrap of sharrow and some silent pleas that cars won't run...

An interactive illustrating the spread of Nobel laureates across the world and by affiliation. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-weber-former-visiting-fellow

An analysis of the transactions of the teams playing the 2014 Winter National Tournament. Where do new players come from? What new reinforcements have arrived in the country? Explore these and more...

As a companion piece to our static Oscar Dresses infographic, we created a larger interactive piece that looked at all the dresses female Hollywood icons had worn to the Academy Awards. The move to...

Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click. @tableau

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

Until recently, it was impossible to measure the popularity of older music. Billboard charts and album sales only tell us about a song’s popularity at the time of its release. But now we have...

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...

Work inspired by a passion for complex data visualization and information design. Uses the principles of those areas and combines them with UX and UI expertise to create new digital experiences.

Because we all enjoy a little light masochism now and then, we've put together a full rent map of the capital, showing the average monthly cost for a one-bedroom within a kilometer of each Tube...

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

An interactive answer to the question: how much traffic and congestion does a presidential visit cause?

An infographic poster exhibition (for the Night of Research) showed statistics about the PhD students who submitted their doctoral thesis at the University of Bern in 2013 in a vivid, funny and...

An interactive tool for healthcare providers to explore data from clinical trials. Peer-reviewed manuscripts can only describe a small fraction of the data generated in a clinical trial. Our tool...

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...

In the category Best Picture. And why did they win? The answer in release dates, minutes and genres.

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...

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

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

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...

Thanks to technical innovations, the US has many different power sources to choose from. This infographic shows the share of each one of them, compared to their 1973 value and the extent of the...

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...