Choosing a school for your child is no easy task. It’s a veritable minefield out there and reading dozens upon dozens of mostly textual, multi-page school reports is time consuming and often confusing. Which is precisely why US-based educational body, The Foundation for Excell...

We’ve been admiring the work of Milan-based designer Martina Cecchi. We particularly love the EMAPS project published earlier this year by Wired Italia which maps an international climate change debate. See photos of the project (and more of her work) on her site at martinaeli...

It's fashion month around the globe with all the top designers showing in New York, London, Milan and Paris during their respective fashion weeks. But how do the world's most dedicated followers of fashion use Instagram to relay what they're up to during this busy time? Well, ...

When you, um, pause whilst talking, you might use a little word like “uh” or “um”. According to some research by forensic linguist Dr Jack Grieve, your particular choice of such a filler word is more likely to be swayed by your geographical location than you might think. Find ...

The votes have been counted and Scotland has rejected independence by 55% to 45%. But while the vote required a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer to the question of whether Scotland should be an independent country, the different issues involved and the ramifications of the result o...

Creative studio, Dorothy, produced these two posters to celebrate colourful song titles and band names by displaying them in colour wheels designed to look a little like vinyl LPs… The Colour of Song print (above) features the titles of a whopping 576 songs including cl...

You might think that the phrase “endangered species” only applies to a handful of animals such as Pandas, Orang-utans and the indigenous giant tortoises of the Galapagos islands. The alarming fact that there are actually thousands of different animals currently teetering on th...

Comprising the talents of Brooklyn-based duo Patrick Mulligan and Ben Gibson, Pop Chart Lab has but one modest goal: to render all of human experience in chart form. From the many varieties of whiskey to the myriad monikers of Gotham’s villains, there’s no area of culture they...

Artists Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher celebrated a three month trek across Spain by creating a visualization of the journey as a temporary art installation. The resulting circular "mandala", entitled 2751 Kilometres / 2621 Grams, was informed by data recorded during the ...

Apparently, describing what Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert is like is a bit like trying to explain what a particular colour looks like to a blind person. Tricky. But what does a day spent at Burning Man look like in data? Gregory Ferenstein attended equipped with a ...

Here in the UK it’s Friday afternoon. And for lots of us, that means it’s nearly "beer o’clock". Fed by data from the World Health Organisation, a new online application by Zenoid shows how much and what types of alcohol are consumed by the world’s different countries on a wee...

A nifty web app by The Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) shows Swiss topographical changes over the years from 1844 up to 2012. The map you see in the app is fed by several, perfectly aligned, historic maps of Switzerland. As you look at the map (feel free to zoom...

Shakespeare utilised no fewer than 28,829 different words across his entire works. The brainy git. Intrigued, digital strategist Matt Daniels used token analysis to determine a selection of rappers’ vocabularies and ranked them based on his findings.  Perhaps surprising...