Back on Planet Earth, we at Nominet have been looking for a way to visualise global internet use. The result is our map of the online world, an atlas redrawn according to the number of...

Infographics are everywhere, but what made them so successful? This infographic exposes the science behind the boom.

You may think buying that particular color shirt or houseware item was your decision, but color analysts and forecasters actually anticipated the color you may choose a few years in advance. Here’s...

The chart on the left shows the population of each nation in 2012; on the right are the number of murders committed in each nation from 2000 to 2012, in decreasing order, year on year. The lack of...

The concept of the cosmic web—viewing the universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity—is deeply ingrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about architecture of this...

The project is a work of visualization illustrating the living cost of normal residents in Shanghai. We calculated the average price of housing within 1km away from each metro station by collecting...

This interactive data visualization shows all of the 5100 Olympic gold medal winners since the 1st Olympic Games of 1896 (and the current Olympic Records). They are ordered by sport, edition,...

Cities in Europe – Facts and figures on cities and urban areas The publication ‘Cities in Europe’ contains 13 infographics that show facts and figures on recent urban developments in the context...

Top summer blockbusters reimagined as flowers.

What lobbyist are you? This infographic prompts the user to answer questions about climate and energy policy and identify to an organization (NGO, company or professional organization) who shares...

Xavi Bou focuses on birds, his great passion, in order to capture in a single time frame, the shapes they generate when flying, making visible the invisible. Unlike other motion analysis...

Website and blog offering tips on Tableau, data visualization and R.

By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.

This infography is based on the popular board game of Chutes and Ladders. The game consists in navigating one's game piece, according to die rolls, from the start (bottom square) to the finish...

An interactive analysis revealing how the Star Wars trailers frequently repeat scenes while parsing out bits of new material to generate attention.

This interactive visualisation aims to display traffic accident information as kept by Transport for London for the year 2015.

Data is everywhere. FlowingData helps everyone understand it, from different points of view.

Data visualisation project about the author's pizza consumption during the year 2016.

In almost every urban area on every continent around the world, pigeons solemnly blend into the cityscape aesthetic. Usurping sidewalks and parks in their massive unflattering flocks, pigeons are...

With the ‘Cymascope,’ sound can be transformed into an image to visualise the sound of birds like the forest, developing a method for translating the frequency of bird calls into...

MapInSeconds lets people create choropleth maps just by copying and pasting data from a spreadsheet/Excel. A major goal of this is to make map-making straightforward and accessible. The maps can...

Visualizing population movement between 10 American cities. 

Since 1954, the Indian government has been conferring its highest honours — from the venerable Padma Shri to the exclusive Bharat Ratna — on bureaucrats, artists, scientists, engineers, sporting...

Cognitive biases are just tools, useful in the right contexts, harmful in others. They’re the only tools we’ve got, and they’re even pretty good at what they’re meant to do. We might as well get...

The artwork shows the 40 most selling videogames in history. In the central part of the graph it is reported the five videogame companies with the greatest turnover. The games are arranged radially...

On the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we measure (for measure) 97 times his plays inspired us. He began writing plays by 1592, and they appear roughly in this order. He died on April 23, 1616,...

This poster explores the disciplines or professions of creators and theorists who marked the history of data visualization. In the 18th and 19th century, visualizing data is used for thinking...

How music taste evolved - every top 5 song, from 1958-2016. 

Among top-grossing films, which received the absolute worst reviews, relative to the amount of money it made? And where does Batman v Superman fall on this spectrum?

The clock cycles through the color wheel every 12 hours using only colors I like. The clock also changes brightness every hour so that the half-hour mark is the brightest and the hour-mark is the...