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...

It’s more than a century since the world’s most famous literary detective made his appearance, but our appetite for his startling deductions is undiminished. Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin go back to...

Overall, the US is relying less on coal for power. In 40 states, use of coal as a power source (as a share of all power sources) has dropped since 2004. Many of these states are increasingly...

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

Lyra is an interactive environment that enables custom visualization design without writing any code. Graphical “marks” can be bound to data fields using property drop zones; dynamically...

An infographic on California's dry spell that plots data from the Palmer Hydrological Drought Index, a soil-moisture algorithm designed to measure the long-term impact of drought. The graph focuses...

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...

The world's best infographics and data visualizations showcased, from the makers on Infogr.am. @TSSVeloso

Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual...

An interactive illustrating the spread of Nobel laureates across the world and by affiliation. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-weber-former-visiting-fellow

This website allows the user to explore the data around the migrant crisis in Europe, including the routes, the fatalities, and the response of the different European countries. @Vectorbender

There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of...

Create charts and maps in just four steps. This tool reduces the time you need to create visualizations from hours to minutes. @mirkolorenz

Quadrigram is a product by the fine people at Bestiario_, a design firm with more than 10 years experience in the wonderful field of data visualization. @quadrigram

Data from the National UFO Reporting Center, compared against US Census Data and visualised - sightings per capita, sighting time, even trending shapes of UFOs. @John_M_Nelson

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

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...

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...

A visualisation of the links between past, present and future films, shorts and TV shows in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. @FlexibleHead

In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions. Keep scrolling....

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...

The subject of refugees and migrants is extremely sensitive and confusing. Who, why, when and how many? Should governments dictate the amount of migrants coming into Europe and where they should...

Minimal Maps is an ongoing project that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape. The data is accurate for the year 2014 and explores the...

Weather Browser is an interactive tool to visually look up and compare detailed weather data. Select a day and Weather Browser visualizes temperature, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction...

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...

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 unstoppable global spread of the internet is encouraging, but wider access alone won’t close the data gap. This interactive visualisation illustrates how the digital divide has...

Looking at six big issues—interracial marriage, prohibition, women’s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana — this visualisation shows how this has happened in the...

Where can you afford to buy a house? @HelenaBengtsson

The German Digital Library provides access to a continuously growing collection that is part of the digital cultural heritage of German cultural and academic institutions. This project attempts to...