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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...

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...

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

Journey into the Amazon region, where thousands of species live in a delicate balance that’s imperiled by logging, mining, agriculture, roadbuilding, oil, and gas drilling. Published by National...

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...

By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.

Visualisation of both live and pre built data for the EU Referendum results service. Video 1 | Video 2

One of the joys of working at the Guardian is that playfulness is very much “on brand.” We knew election results and delegate trackers would be everywhere this year (mostly using the same AP data),...

Visual representation of the most dangerous urban intersections in America.

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.

Language represents our view of the world, and knowing its limits helps us understand how our perception works. I used the data from Wikipedia’s “Color” entry for different languages. My...

“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...

You’re a social scientist with a hunch: The U.S. economy is affected by whether Republicans or Democrats are in office. Try to show that a connection exists, using real data going back to 1948....

An interactive analysis revealing how the Star Wars trailers frequently repeat scenes while parsing out bits of new material to generate attention.

Rock 'n Poll is polls explained with interactive graphics. Politicians as well as journalists take political polls very seriously. Losses and gains of a few percentage points are overly analysed...

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,...

Left Behind is the latest in a series of campaign-oriented data products created for UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Launched to coincide with International Women's Day 2015, Left Behind allows...

This story features an agricultural project from Uganda. A team of scientists joined 358 farmers who sourced the data themselves for this project. In two districts they tested the best bean they...

During the early part of 2012, the City of Oakland's mayor Jean Quan was claiming that 90 percent of the city's homicides and shootings occurred in 100 of the city's 6,560 blocks, and that a plan...

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?

This article examines the performance of sprinters in various races, Olympic games and World Championships, to try to predict the next winners.

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.

Why Muslims are rising fastest and the unaffiliated are shrinking as a share of the world's population.

In today's computerized markets it can be extremely difficult to catch a spoofer amid the deluge of daily trades. @mattleising @rjnskl @adamrpearce

In US presidential primaries, endorsements have been among the best predictors of which candidates will succeed and which will fail. This visualisation keeps track.

While there are more people than ever on the NHS’s donor register, there are some body parts that people find it difficult to part with – even after death.

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...

The majority of Americans state that they trust data and are persuaded by claims supported by it. Yet, only one-third of the public is data literate. This creates a gap between the individuals...