By analysing a huge amount of data, this project shows a statistical analysis of more than 2 million chess games and throws light onto the most common openings, winning moves and interesting...

A tour around the world showing the impact of climate change around different ecosystems and comunities, with the use of stunning photographs.

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...

The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...

Colour trends in Instagram’s early-adopter photographer community.

A look at the history of Batman & Superman in the context of the changes in American culture, politics and economics over the last century. The aim was to try and understand how these...

The second debate on Wednesday night was a three-hour affair, where Donald Trump dominated the conversation – a repeat performance of the first debate. Of words spoken by the 11 candidates, 15...

What are investors looking for in companies and founders? The data looks at 890 U.S. startups that were founded from 2009-2015 and received at least $20 million in VC and other equity funding.

The electoral map is many shades of Republican and Democrat—and always shifting. Which states have moved to the middle, and which are slipping out of reach for the opposition party?

These are two infographics. One shows that Google representatives attended White House meetings more than once a week, on average, from the beginning of Obama’s presidency through October 2015. The...

Visualizing the social graph of the #GamerGate/#NotYourShield universe

Elephant ivory is now a key source of funding for armed groups in central Africa like the Lord’s Resistance Army. National Geographic commissioned the creation of artificial tusks with hidden GPS...

At the world's largest classical music festival, the work of female composers will comprise only 4 per cent of the programme. But as this data visualisation shows, female composers often featured...

629,000 girls (aged 0–6 years) are estimated to be missing in India every year. The majority of them are aborted, others are killed, abandoned or neglected to death just because they are girls....

From Afghan training camps to the Islamic State - this is the comprehensive map for 37 years of terror acts performed by various Islamist groups around the world. We track the story and roots of...

In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the...

Analysis of what makes Serena Williams the best tennis player of all time.

Some teams seem to always strike gold on draft day, while others just find rocks. (We’re looking at you, Cleveland.) Revisit the past 20 NFL drafts to see how adept every team has been at mining...

Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.

The project investigates the problem of air pollution in modern megapolices. The main purpose was to tell about the influence of different urban systems on environment, their correlation and role...

Skeptics of manmade climate change offer various natural causes to explain why the Earth has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. But can these account for the planet's rising temperature?This...

Today’s AFL grand final players are the product of sports scientists on the quest for the perfect competitor. The average grand finalist has certainly changed a lot over the years. ‘Mullets,...

In the early euphoria following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Germany moved quickly to erase the scars of its Cold War division. But East Germany’s legacy remains visible in...

A research made by the website "OkCupid": half a million straight people have been asked "have you ever tried sexual intercourse with the same gender as yours?" the answers were: Red: "No, and I...

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...

Behind the sensational success of "Hamilton" are some of the most densely packed, complex rhyming lyrics in the history of musicals. How exactly do they work?

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...

How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...

Hundreds of climbers are gathering in Nepal to begin a months-long odyssey up the world’s highest mountain in hopes of spending a few extraordinary moments on its peak. Scroll along the icy...

There have been more than 22 million weddings in England and Wales over the last 70 years. Visualising data from the Office for National Statistics allowed to retrace patterns in the British...