FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization and exploration to understand data & ourselves.

This visualization presents an aesthetic and holistic way of viewing local climate patterns and the relationships between various weather parameters. Playing with the Wikipedia common...

It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator...

Energy is complicated. The goal of the U.S. of Energy is to help you understand energy realities in America. Staying away from politics and not playing favourites with any individual resource....

By creating and sending the data visualisations using analogue instead of digital means, dear-data is what artists have done for ages, which is sketch and try to capture the essence of the life...

  Every day, there are 3 billion+ searches on Google. See how these searches reflect the way the world thinks about climate change. Published by Chrome Experiments

The Contracts Portal was developed as a research project for the City of Montreal, as it moves towards greater transparency within its contracting. The city has been actively researching,...

Culturegraphy investigates cultural information exchange over time also known as 'memes'. These networks can provide new insights into the rich interconnections of cultural development.

Early GOP debate: who was top searched? Chart of the changing ranks of Republican candidates during the debate on Google search.

Many economists believe the gap between the rich and everyone else is widening. Here's a look at why. Published by The Wall Street...

The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones VentureSource are tracking venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. See how the club has expanded since the project began in January 2014...

Visualization of oil and gas production divided into Opec countries and non Opec countries @thevisualagency

The interactive visualisation shows where the government money is spent. Readers can see the data by department and functional classification.

The National Park Service created models of sound level and night sky conditions for the coterminous U. S. to assess resource conditions in national parks and adjacent landscapes. These models...

This map shows the collaboration networks between researchers in different cities. Apart from its aesthetic qualities, the map is useful to illustrate some interesting collaboration patterns....

Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...

A look at the major cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 @ChristineHHChan

Members put their codesign in common resources , both to share contacts and reach as many but above all to pool expertise of design trades and allow a common drafting and shared primordial...

The initially loaded 350 are generally well-known sites. Sites are ordered by size by referring subnets and their size is determined by their referring domains.

The new home for charts and data - use our search engine to source multiple dataviz. Powered by Quartz.

When you're hanging out at the beach and you gaze off into the horizon, do you know what is across the ocean from you? http://http://caiweiyi.com/

Something important you'll notice: as more outside groups get involved in the war, each escalates by backing their side, then a rival will also get involved to back the other side. So what you have...

I made this using 44 animations that are 9 frames each. That's 396 sketches total - probably the most complicated GIF I've made so far. I am a little sad that I wasn't able to show size properly...

This infographic shows the first 100 historical figures in order of influence according to Pantheon, a Macro connections group of the MIT Media Lab of Boston project which took into account...

Flagstories is an analysis of world flags according to layouts, colours, similarities, proportions, age, complexity, history, meaning and symbolism. Published by Ferdio

Turns out great minds don’t think alike. Discover how some of the world’s most original artists, writers and musicians structured their day, based on ‘Daily Rituals’ by Mason Currey. Filter the...

In partnership with Future Cities Catapult, After the Flood turned London's boroughs into a choropleth - or series of shaded cells - that can contain numerous types of data more effectively than a...

One of the leading subreddits for the dataviz community, r/dataisbeautiful is a place for discovery and discussion of any visual that effectively conveys information. @randal_olson

Opening spread and following graphs about Kolbalt and the future of music for Wired UK, May 2015 Issue, pp.106-115, Features section.

Chicago is a major transport hub in the US and mobility being its vital economic driver. In light of an estimated population growth of 2 million in the next decades, its infrastructure is in...