Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis and data visualization to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, sports, science, economics and culture.

This research aims to understand the general design shape elements of a trendy logo by classifying and visualizing the logo trend data with design characteristics, and to interpret the changing...

Discover how the European Commission is making a difference by reducing the human and environmental costs of air pollution. Six interactive visual segments are woven into a single narrative which...

Minute by minute point differentials of 2015 NBA games

This map uses open source data, curated by the Carter Center and integrated and analyzed in Palantir, to show how the conflict in Syria has evolved over time.

WTF Vizualizations publishes infographics and dataviz that make no sense, together with a Twitter community analysing why.

Paralympians face fewer competitors than Olympians do.

‘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...

Every job from every episode from Star Trek TOS-main, regular extras, and unnamed characters. Even the babysitters and waitresses.

Visualisation of air bag recalls

Galileo's Impact On Modern Science According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called...

In the final sentence of his study of nineteenth‐century canals, Ronald E. Shaw points to the limitations of most canal maps: “The long lines of canals now drawn on our maps ... are but the...

Series of graphic representations that reconstruct the game tree of eight of the best players in chess history. To plot the game trees, it has been used a database composed of more than 10,000...

During the 2016 Australian election, ABC News ran an interactive tool that helped voters see how their views compared to the candidates' policies. More than 1.3 million people used the tool during...

Historically, presidential candidates as unpopular as Donald Trump faced decimation in the electoral college. But thanks to the increasing polarization of both parties and voters, that has become a...

An animated visualization of commuting patterns for US counties operating at the US Census Tract level. Tract to tract flows are shown based on user selected criteria.

The Battle of Waterloo, visualized. 

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

To illustrate the destructive power of Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombs we analyze the impact the Fat Man bomb would have on modern cities. We indicate the radiuses of destruction of our hypothetical...

Behind the sensational success of "Hamilton" are some of the most densely packed, complex rhyming lyrics in the history of musicals. How exactly do they work?

An interactive Japanese Kanji Learner created in Tableau Public

The woodpecker facts and systems to protect his head against the hits when this bird drills the wood. Fun project to my site mhinfographics published in Spanish also in visual744.

The work shows the most common color of the Olympic Games symbol (5 rings) present in flags of countries that won at least one medal throughout the history of the Olympics. The countries that...

Data Selfie is a Chrome browser extension that I used to track myself while I interact – click, type, scroll, dwell – with content on Facebook and that predicts various personality traits and...

At Avodato we have been collecting data about how the Internet is interconnected during the last months to do some basic data exploration and create some basic visualizations about how the internet...

Intersections of major roads have been given nicknames like “mixing bowl,” “spaghetti junction,” and “knot”—invoking images of tangled messes, but there's beauty in the chaos. Applying colors...

This map follows the growing population of Syrian civilians who have fled the country’s civil war since 2011. The data are from Eurostat and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Is crime in America rising or falling? The answer is not nearly as simple as politicians sometimes make it out to be, because of how the FBI collects and handles crime data from the country’s...

By analysing the risks and benefits of commuting by bike in big cities, the authors answer the question we all ask ourselves: is it worth it?

To sum up the key character’s journey in an entire movie into a single picture, these maps show all the places where the plot takes place, as well as a joining thread showing the movement...