On April 25, Nepal was hit with the biggest Earthquake in 80 years - but just how big was it?

Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click. @tableau

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 is the tenth and final Feltron Annual Report. The world of personal data has changed considerably since the project began in 2005 and this edition attempts to capture its current state. While...

This infographic shows the market value of the ice cream industry in the world in 2015. The top consumers are shown for each category (Single Portion Dairy Ice Cream, Impulse Ice Cream, Retail...

This is the story of the writers and publishers working in the Islamic Republic of Iran today, told through the contents of Iran’s National Library. Over a million books sit on its shelves, but...

Rare earth elements are a group of metals of great economic and technological significance. They possess a great number of irreplaceable properties and play a key role especially with regard to...

Twelve movements powered by social media that changed the 21st century

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

A graphics and data-rich profile of the man who creates the Madden Ratings, the numerical grades used in EA Sports' Madden NFL football videogame franchise. Published 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...

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....

William Shakespeare coined these 300 words and phrases over 400 years ago. How often do we still use them?

When Formula One began in 1950, cars were designed purely for speed and crash helmets were not compulsory. The sport was both new, and deadly, with 11 driver fatalities in the first...

Thanks to technical innovations, the US has many different power sources to choose from. This infographic shows the share of each one of them, compared to their 1973 value and the extent of the...

"Histography" is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new...

Concentrated poverty in the neighbourhoods of the nation's largest urban cores has exploded since the 1970s. The number of high poverty neighbourhoods has tripled and the number of poor people...

Because we all enjoy a little light masochism now and then, we've put together a full rent map of the capital, showing the average monthly cost for a one-bedroom within a kilometer of each Tube...

The secret cave under the Wayne mansion. An visual resume of the Batman history.

Mirador is a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets. It enables users to discover correlation patterns and derive new hypotheses from the data.

Founded by noted analyst Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight made its name aggregating political polls and now features data-heavy stories on a range of topics from science to...

Imagine if you could see the way the world is interconnected. News Explorer makes this possible by channeling IBM Watson's Alchemy News API—up-to-the-minute news, 250K articles a day, 70K...

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...

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

The project is a visual analysis of the letters written by Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theodorus ("Theo") between 1873 and 1890. For each letter an automatic linguistic extraction has...

This dashboard explores crime rate statistics for the 50 states in the US from 1960 - 2012. Source: Uniform Crime Reporting Website. @vizshine

With a mean temperature of 11.9° Celsius, 2014 was the hottest year on record in Belgium. This graph shows, in eight steps, how Belgium is heating up.

The visualization shows the Italian cultural production system in 2014, focusing on three factors: the effect of the cultural system on the total tourists’ flow; the effect of the...