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...

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

Hurricane Katrina was the United States’s most costly and destructive weather disaster in recent history, but how does it compare with other events? @LazaroGamio @DeniseDSLu

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

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...

The data visualisation here is the result of examining a year's worth of physics literature for references to general relativity and its conceptual...

Inspired by the polygon aesthetic of Pasquale D’Silvia's Trianimals & Bryan James’ Species in Pieces, this visualization creates animal images programmatically (in pure code), without...

By analysing over 1,250 attempted transactions – both successful and failed – we can observe the ebb and flow of Chinese investments and contracts. Momentum has grown since 2010 with the energy and...

Track the number of sectors gaining or losing jobs each month. Boxes are shaded on percentage change from the previous month in each sector's payrolls. Published by WSJ @andrewvandam

Hundreds of climbers are gathering in Nepal to begin a months-long odyssey up the world’s highest mountain in hopes of spending a few extraordinary moments on its peak. Scroll along the icy...

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...

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...

An interactive widget to show the location and year of discovery of Supergiant deposits in the world.

Noise in some areas of Berlin has reached levels considered hazardous to health. The Berliner Morgenpost interactive map shows where the noise in Berlin is potentially harmful, detailing the...

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....

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...

threeP is a process that aims to make the corporate identity of an organisation easily understood, despite its complexity, starting from data.

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...

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...

How many guests are travelling, checking in or staying at AirBnB accommodations today? Explore today's activity by navigating around an interactive globe.

A virtual reality guided tour of 21 years of the Nasdaq. Published by The Wall Street Journal. @ana_becker

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

Our World In Data covers a wide range of topics and visualizes the empirical evidence of how living standards changed over the last decades, centuries, and millennia.

A “unicorn” is every venture capitalist’s dream. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of funding a startup that surpasses a $1 billion pre-IPO valuation? While Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the...

40 years of divorce data in France. Infographics published in french newspaper Libération on july 11th to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the law establishing divorce by mutual consent.

The Colorado River — the most important water source for 40 million people in the West — is draining. For a century, seven states engineered ways to wring ever more water from the river, defying...

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....

Flags are arranged by the most common combinations of colors. Colors and combinations are arranged in a spectrum-like order: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue, with black and white at the...

Not all markets are the same, nor are individuals. TNS took a comparative look at the four personas of the connected consumer in the UK and China for our 2014 Connected Life campaign, showing that...

Comparing the number of traffic accidents to weather, holidays and daylight hour patterns