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...
NASA's New Horizons flyby of Pluto caps more than 50 years of exploring our nearest celestial neighbors. Here's a chance to look back at the moons, planets, asteroids and comets photographed by...
Until recently, it was impossible to measure the popularity of older music. Billboard charts and album sales only tell us about a song’s popularity at the time of its release. But now we have...
The M29 bus route cuts straight through Berlin. It starts in the villa districts in the west of the city, passes through the troubled inner city areas, and ends in Berlin’s trendiest districts....
This animation distills hundreds of years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births and deaths of notable...
How does the UK's most recent recession, and subsequent recovery, compare to recessions in other countries and to previous recessions in the UK?
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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 year's edition of PRB's annual World Population Data Sheet provides the latest data on 20 population, health, and environment indicators for the world, major regions, and more than 200...
Combines the disciplines of software development, information and user experience design to create engaging work that connects with audiences across a wide range of platforms and outputs, from...
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...
Projects in the fields of communication design, visualization and design research for national and international clients as well as self-initiated and non-commercial...
The Homicide Monitor is the most comprehensive publicly available dataset on murder in the world. It is a data-driven data visualization tool designed to show the distribution, dimensions and...
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...
This infographic explores the border crisis that the US experiences in the current violent climate of South American countries, and especially the plight of unaccompanied children trying to reach...
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....
The artwork shows the 100 most valuable brands from 2010 to 2015.The size of the circles represents the value of the brand while the lines show the fluctuation in ranking year after year. Some...
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...
Friends in Space has been the first social network to extend beyond Earth; a 6 months-long open window to make new friends from all over the world and join astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in her...
The Office for Creative Research is a multidisciplinary research group exploring new modes of engagement with data, through unique practices that borrow from both the arts and sciences. OCR...
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....
Baseball is arguably the most quantifiable data driven professional sport in the world. From the inception of the game, player performance has been quantified and the analysis has only grown more...
Guided by experts, ProPublica calculated death and complication rates for surgeons performing one of eight elective procedures in Medicare, carefully adjusting for differences in patient health,...
The project is an animation that illustrates a research where scientists have been able to create a very accurate estimate of the total number of trees in the world. This animation illustrates the...
Incisive analysis and opinion around data visualization techniques, plus tutorials from the renowned University of Miami Knight Chair of Visual Journalism, Alberto Cairo.
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