This data-driven live wallpaper displays the battery, wireless signal and notifications in a simple wallpaper visualization. Published by Google Creative Lab. http://www.mikkelkoser.com/

A European Union study found “breathtaking” levels of corruption across the 28-country bloc, costing the region at least 120bn euros ($162bn) a year. The study included a survey of public...

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,...

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...

A sweet of mapping tools for beautiful detailed interactive maps

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

Where can you afford to buy a house? @HelenaBengtsson

Data from the National UFO Reporting Center, compared against US Census Data and visualised - sightings per capita, sighting time, even trending shapes of UFOs. @John_M_Nelson

The Clinical Centre in Ljubljana, capital city of Slovenija, is home to one of the leading cardiocurgial teams in the world. They have been chosen to take part in the clinical trials of 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

A representation of the Solar System in perfect scale: the moon is one pixel, the sun, the planets and the space between them, all in correct scale.

Where is the population of Europe actually growing and where is it declining? This map provides a picture of unprecedented detail, showing population growth in 119,406 municipalities from 43...

This map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in...

Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...

A virtual reality guided tour of 21 years of the Nasdaq. Published by The Wall Street Journal. @ana_becker

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...

Over the last year Private Eye has revealed the extent of ownership of British land by offshore companies, generally for tax avoidance and often to conceal dubious wealth. Now the Eye has...

Many of the economic trends that have defined countries’ fortunes over the past year are especially striking when seen visually—how in the U.S., for example, unemployment declined, or how, in...

This animation distills hundreds of years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births and deaths of notable...

Twelve movements powered by social media that changed the 21st century

Rank business leaders on the Journal’s influence grid. Published by The Wall Street Journal

Last year, I made a series of visualizations based on playlist data from my favorite local radio station: KEXP. Well, it’s a new year and there’s new data, so here I go again! First, let’s start...

Every dot here is a package. Position of a package is determined by force based graph layout algorithm and usually clusters together packages that depend on each other. Some packages are...

The world will not end hunger until girls and women are empowered. Empowerment relies on annual data to track the issues that matter most. The United Nations has defined a set of 52 indicators...

The subject of refugees and migrants is extremely sensitive and confusing. Who, why, when and how many? Should governments dictate the amount of migrants coming into Europe and where they should...

Twenty five and single? In London, you're anything but alone. According to the 2011 Census, more than half of twentysomethings go solo. Then comes your thirties and that deep river of available...

Posters exploring a selection of data on life in Geneva: what paths do people follow? How much activity is there in each city district? How much at night?

The National Park Service created models of sound level and night sky conditions for the coterminous U. S. to assess resource conditions in national parks and adjacent landscapes. These models...

An interactive widget to show the location and year of discovery of Supergiant deposits in the world.