Open data can empower citizens and spark debate. That’s exactly what pioneers in open data, Rennes Metropolis, set out to do when they commissioned data visualization studio Dataveyes to create Qui Sommes Nous? The web interactive transforms Rennes' census data into a us...

Meet Andrey Karmatsky’s latest interactive, Bike share stats in Moscow. Toggle to view bike share stats on the most popular journeys (Route), activity across time (Activity) and changing use across seasons and weather conditions (Timeline). Andrey created the viz wit...

A few months ago, we told you about an awesome Kickstarter project, Visualize Pi. Combining data visualization, education and public art, the project was designed to teach local high school students about the mathematical constant by visualizing pi in a mural. The hard w...

Sometimes beautiful data viz comes as a result of experimentation. That’s exactly what happened when freelance designer, Sonja Kuijpers, set out to practice designing with data and ended up creating this stunning radial weather chart, Weather Eindhoven 2014. Using data f...

Discover which names dip in and out of fashion and which stand the test of time with Nadieh Bremer’s data visualization, Babynames. The viz charts the changing popularity of 130 of the most popular US baby names names, stretched out over a 135-year timeline.  Narrow your...

Can you visualize correspondence? Milan-based freelance information designer, Federica Fragapane has done just that in her latest project, From Vincent to Theo, a visualization of the letters sent from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo between 1873 and 1890. Carefully...

Amsterdam-based designer and coder, Bryan James has come up trumps with his latest website, In Pieces, an interactive web exhibition on the 30 animals we are in danger of losing. The website enables you to scroll through each of the unique species and click to discover thei...

Everyone knows that when Michael Brown was shot dead by a US police officer on 9 August last year, rioting exploded in Ferguson. Everyone also knows that Michael Brown’s shooting was not an isolated incident. But no one knows exactly how many people have been killed by p...

29 US states have failed to adopt non-discrimination laws to protect their LGBT inhabitants. Yet over 60% of American LGBT people live in these states and suffer disproportionate socio-economic disadvantages as a result. The LGBT Divide is an interactive web experience t...

Get back to basics on how vitamins maintain our health and well-being, with Hyperakt’s colourful web interactive. Vitamin Atlas gives the ultimate lowdown on vitamins, from the food they're found in to the ways they are processed by the body. The web interactive was crea...

Dear Data is a year-long, analogue data drawing project created by the supremely talented Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. Despite having a lot in common, the pair have only met twice in person and so decided to get to know each other through the language of data visualiz...

Globally, there are 76.7 million illiterate women, compared with 48.8 million men. In order to bring this inequality to attention, UNESCO launched Left Behind, a powerful web interactive on girls' education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The tool provides an invaluable starting ...

Air quality is a big deal in Salt Lake City, where the mountains frequently disappear behind curtains of smog, a pattern known to locals as “the inversion”. Salt Lake City resident and award-winning designer, Yvette Shen, created this awesome scrolling interactive to show h...