This visualization shows the number of grand operas in europe, subdivided by author (the outer ring) and by city (the inner shapes). Each city is represented with a polygon in which each vertex...

What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface. Human light...

Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible? This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...

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

In our globalizing world, food is increasingly difficult to track. Knowing where our food comes from is important, since it can carry harmful pathogens. Visualizing data from the World Health...

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...

Fairfax’s ‘Peak Hour’ combined old-fashioned with data journalism, video and interactive storytelling to chart the rise of Australia’s urban traffic woes, engaging its readers with insights...

NHS hospitals were forced to add over 5,000 extra beds in one day this winter — that affects the care patients received.

Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever. I decided...

Data sketches is a ±yearlong collaboration in 12 instalments. On average taking a month per project, Nadieh & Shirley create an extensive data visualization of a different topic and write about...

This work visualises nearly 95 million casualties of war from the 20th century. Data made available by The Polynational War Memorial make clear that war was a near-constant characteristic –...

Since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs a year ago, Philippine police have taken hundreds of dead bodies to hospital. Why?

A visual comparison of selected (GB, US, Germany, China & Brazil) countries from around the world to highlight how different we are when it comes to our daily routines and washing habits, with...

A recent Naked Data newsletter pointed me to this article on Wikipedia which gives a list of when the world was predicted to end throughout recorded history. It is a timeline of when the world...

We believe that it is far more important for a student to develop statistical intuition than to be able to recite equations. We have developed a collection of 15 interactive visualizations, each of...

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...

This infographic is the visual representation of the 8th annual edition of the BrandZâ„¢ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands. Using data collected by Millward Brown on behalf of WPP it helps to...

This series of maps examines regional dialect variation in the continental United States. For each of the 122 questions in the Harvard Dialect Survey, the composite map shows which dialect variant...

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

A series of visualizations on the history of the D.C. punk band Fugazi, produced first as a newsprint fanzine, and then as large format prints for an exhibition. Using data the band themselves...

This special project is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the first and only flight of the spaceship "Buran". The analysis of the flight goes into detail about the most difficult stages of the...

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The graphic celebrates the milestone on its 60th birthday.

A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between. Humans are socially conditioned to view sex and gender as binary attributes. This visualization helps to...

The –metro –is a central component in the daily life of millions of Parisians. As a result, the official network map conditions the way commuters perceive time and space, as they tend to select...

The Fallen of World War II is an interactive documentary that examines the human cost of the second World War and the decline in battle deaths in the years since the war. The 15-minute data...

This year's edition of PRB's annual World Population Data Sheet provides the latest data on 20 population, health, and environment indicators for the world, major regions, and more than 200...

A series of graphics accompanied this article on Flint's water crisis. These graphics took pains to convey the statistical sampling that was being used to test Flint's water, and how seemingly...

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...

The Dalai Lama asked Paul Ekman and Stamen Design to design him an Atlas of Emotions. This online interactive project visualizes what science knows about emotions, emotional states, triggers,...

“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...