Twitter has become the venue for political outreach, international diplomacy, whitehouse personnel announcements and other important political communications. In this piece, we analyze the concept...

As nations around the world celebrate International Women’s Day, the number of countries that have had a female leader continues to expand. But the list is still relatively short, and even when...

The drug trade is moving from the street to online cryptomarkets. Forced to compete on price and quality, sellers are upping their game.

The rise and fall of his purple majesty, Prince, as both an artist and song writer through the lens of the Billboard Hot 100 list.

Dos Juegos is an analysis and study of sports performance in contact sports from a different perspective. This is an experimental project which analyses sport trajectories to empower the...

A timeline of the conversations between Earth and the spacecraft of the Apollo 11 mission from lift off to splashdown.

The World Poverty Clock is brought to you by World Data Lab in Vienna, Austria and its global network. It is based on a global standardized database on income which provides real-time projections...

Over the summer and autumn 2018, there was a hot debate about weapon exports in Switzerland: The Swiss Federal Council wanted to loosen the export regulation such that, in certain cases,...

Map of Argentina illustrating typical goods from different regions: mate tea from Entre Rios, pizza from Buenos Aires, churros with caramel from Mar del Plata, chorizo sandwich from Santiago del...

This analysis by University of Oxford researchers of previous outbreaks shows that the death rate has been greater than 33 percent and that there is often more than one cluster of infections,...

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...

Following the final drawing of World Cup 2014 participants last December, Bloomberg Sports assigned each national team a distinctive rating. BSports then simulated each match of the tournament over...

I thought it would be cool to tell the story of Great Britain's Paralympic history through data. Using statistics that I sourced from the official Paralympic website I charted GB's Paralympic...

These are New Zealand politicians’ social media fingerprints. The subject of the graph sits in the centre. The MPs who they are connected to in some fashion form a ring around the edge,...

Mobile-friendly interactive exploring aspects of breast and ovarian cancer.

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...

Who are the key climate change influencers on Twitter? To find out, Carbon Brief and Right Relevance embarked on a year-long collaboration to collect and analyse 13 million climate-related tweets...

Sustainable Development Goals sanctioned by the UN are basically a "to do list" for humankind. Take a closer look.

The 2012 Xylem Value of Water Index is a nationwide poll of American voters detailing what they think should be done about the country's water crisis and who should pay for it. The key findings of...

A modern graphic interpretation of the Paris mass transit system. It is original art inspired by the paths of the Paris metro and the RER railroad. LinePosters is the collaboration of a graphic...

The Export Potential Tool is a project by the UN/WTO’s International Trade Centre to help small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries to find products, markets and suppliers with...

It wasn’t a big surprise, but it was a big deal — so much so that North Korea issued commemorative stamps. Two successful missile launches in July almost certainly proved that the country had...

The artwork shows a possible new structure and reorganization of the U.S. Army, from redistribution of expertise in new military units, to definition of the aspects and equipment to enhance,...

For this thought experiment, we asked one former Republican speech writer and one Democratic speechwriter to team up and compose a bipartisan presidential stump speech that panders to the largest...

The visualization invites riders to explore bike and docking station availability for encouraging re-distribution for the NYC bike share. The data on trips and station availability are encoded in...

Healthcare failures place an extra burden of care on transgender people and their families, and can stop them being economically active. Here is what health care providers and legal services can do.

The Infographic wheel is a handheld design tool - also known as a volvelle - that helps a user select an infographic layout based on the characteristics of their data. Many professionals who work...

Are all selfies taken by young people? Do men take many selfies? Are we all trying to copy celebrities in choosing how we represent ourselves? Are there any significant differences between selfies...