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

The authors scanned data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey—which covers 3.5 million households—to find out how people are pairing up.

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...

#MakeoverMonday is a social experiment run by Andy Kriebel and Andy Cotgreave. Each week Andy Kriebel shares a foreign data set and asks others to turn it into a more meaningful visualisation. The...

PhotoViz is a presentation, curriculum and book about the overlap between photography and data visualization. From a talk at Webstock, the concept matured into a class at NYU’s ITP before being...

The visualization shows the meals described in 49 novels. The descriptions and the novels have been selected by Dinah Fried, who has collected them in the book Fictitious Dishes: An Album of...

Based on Reddit, Data is Beautiful showcases graphs, charts, maps and other forms of data visualization. DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are...

The birth of the printing press not only revolutionized education and knowledge, it also reshaped the design of letterforms. This opened up a whole industry for printers-scholars, type cutters, and...

Musicmap tries to provide the ultimate genealogy of all popular music genres and bundles any information regarding music genres and history in one dynamic map, serving as both an educational tool...

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...

At the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), I've made dozens of infographics / data visualisations to present data from investigations, educational resources and research articles. Our main...

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,...

A century ago The Netherlands counted 6.5 million inhabitants. On March 21st of this year that number officially reached a total of no less than 17 million. That same day we published a combination...

The concept of the cosmic web—viewing the universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity—is deeply ingrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about architecture of this...

Infographics are everywhere, but what made them so successful? This infographic exposes the science behind the boom.

Probe the solar system from Mercury to Pluto with this stellar schematic of space exploration! From the Luna 2 in 1959 to the DSCOVR in 2015, this color-coded chart traces the trajectories of every...

The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. When the effects of the principle are observed, it is known as the Goldilocks...

The real estate market has been one of the main driving forces of China’s economy for more than one decade. This fast growing industry also contributed to social inequality in urban...

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

Our bodies are extraordinary. They contain elements that have a commercial value, megabytes of data, and trillions of cells, most of which aren't our own.

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

“Roads to Rome” is a data visualization project exploring one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility: Do all roads really lead to Rome? The project resides somewhere between data...