These are two infographics. One shows that Google representatives attended White House meetings more than once a week, on average, from the beginning of Obama’s presidency through October 2015. The...

Native Berliners are a minority in Berlin. This interactive application shows for the first time which cities the new arrivals come from.

Data is everywhere. FlowingData helps everyone understand it, from different points of view.

According to a recent report from the Freedom House, 61% of Internet users live in countries where government criticism is restricted. Though widespread globally, censorship is not evenly...

In a first-of-its-kind review, the newspaper spent a year examining the field contact practices of the nation’s 50 largest police departments, along with some of the top law enforcement agencies in...

Weather forecasts predict future wind conditions only in the range of weeks. Climate predictions look at big changes over years and decades. However, for energy traders, wind farm managers and...

This interactive data visualization shows all of the 5100 Olympic gold medal winners since the 1st Olympic Games of 1896 (and the current Olympic Records). They are ordered by sport, edition,...

The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...

The Power Players is an interactive browser and data visualisation of the key stories from the Panama Papers leak. It was commissioned from Kiln by the International Consortium of Investigative...

Shipmap.org is an ambitious interactive WebGL map of commercial shipping movements based on hundreds of millions of data points from throughout 2012 (the most recent year for which all the raw...

Interactive neural network widget visualises outcomes of machine learning according to different parameters.

A simulator of chance and cause of death at every age and according to gender and race.

Analysis of what makes Serena Williams the best tennis player of all time.

With the ‘Cymascope,’ sound can be transformed into an image to visualise the sound of birds like the forest, developing a method for translating the frequency of bird calls into...

Examining the gender of writers, producers, and directors who make films that fail the Bechdel test.

This A2 fold-out poster was sent out to around 30,000 general practitioners (family doctors) in the UK, in the GP edition of The BMJ. It shows the UK guidance on cancer referral (produced by NICE)...

How much money exists in the world? Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...

Alberto Cairo's weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism

Video data visualisation in motion design showing the urbanisation of the planet throughout the ages. Since 2008, more than half of the humain beings live in cities. Every second, 2 people add up...

I’m the kind of person who binges on real-time charts during election nights, but not this voting season. My interest is waning because of a sense that political divisions have become deeper, less...

The analysis of collaboration patterns both between institutions and among countries. Scientific collaborations play an increasingly important role in driving world-leading research. Nature...

Economist and data visualization and presentation skills specialist Jon Schwabish talks about data visualization, presentation skills, presentation design, open data, and technology.

This project is a small atlas with basic information about our country represented in different infographics using only two colors. We investigated general data about Mexico, as well as about each...

‘How cities are governed’ is an interactive visualisation which presents the results of the global Urban Governance Survey undertaken by LSE Cities in partnership with UN Habitat and UCLG...

From Afghan training camps to the Islamic State - this is the comprehensive map for 37 years of terror acts performed by various Islamist groups around the world. We track the story and roots of...

America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities — but usually take the weekends off.

Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a...

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, millions were displaced, and once bustling communities became husks of their past selves. While the emptiness of these places is...

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

This investigation of scientific p-values is anchored by an interactive graphic where users can give "p-hacking" a try on their own. These are tricky statistical concepts, made accessible to all...