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...

All the results are in for our food poisoning challenge! We’re hugely excited to announce the following winners and runners-up, who will all be getting a cash prize for their sterling work. And don’t despair if you missed out this time - we’ll be running a brand new chal...

We are super-excited to announce that the interactive, static and napkin shortlists are all now live! We owe a major thank you to everyone who entered our food poisoning challenge. Y’all turned out an amazing variety of work using a grizzly dataset, from the world’s most de...

Ellie Balk and Nathan Affield are raising money to create their next Visualize Pi mural with high school students from East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The piece, Visualize Pi Perspective, will show the mathematical constant in one point perspective to create an illusion of the...

Four in five US adults have no idea how their tax dollars are spent. Matthew - creator of data blog fishything - decided to put that right. His infographic, Where do your earnings really go? shows how the US government spends federal taxes each month. The results are ...

One of the biggest problems facing Italy is the phenomenon of organised crime. Freelance information designer, Federica Fragapane, uses data visualization to focus in on the issue. Organized Crime in Northern Italy is a unique tool that enables users to explore organised...

Imagine a world where natural resources can no longer provide for the human population. Now imagine this happening in just 35 years’ time. Gemma Warriner did just that for her student project, Twenty-Fifty. Over a series of eight data visualization posters, Gemma exp...