Most movies make the majority of their profits in the first few weeks after release. A nomination for the Oscars could change this dynamic dramatically, but only for some. The nomination puts...
“Plastic Garbage Island” is the first cover story published on Visualeyed.com, it’s an article about marine debris with a focus on plastic garbage. The article is enriched by interaction,...
In the final sentence of his study of nineteenth‐century canals, Ronald E. Shaw points to the limitations of most canal maps: “The long lines of canals now drawn on our maps ... are but the...
Progress and Challenges with Achieving Universal Immunization Coverage: 2015 Estimates of Immunization Coverage. A report for the World Health Organization with data visualization from Stamen.
Roughly 2.2 million people are locked up in prison or jail; 7 million are under correctional control, which includes parole and probation; and more than $80 billion is spent on corrections...
Politicians like to say, 'I worked my way through college' to prove their work ethic. But four decades ago, a year of tuition could be worked off in a summer. Compared with today's kids, they had...
Our latest release constitutes quite a catch: a massive, awe-inspiring aquarium of American freshwater fish! Each finny friend has been meticulously illustrated scale by scale—to scale! This...
This print is an infographic documenting the loves of Marilyn Monroe, it shows where Marilyn met her love, what his occupation it was, what year they met and what type of relationship it was. This...
The election forecast is FiveThirtyEight's signature interactive project. The state of the 2016 general election, both nationally and in ever state, is captured in an extensive series of...
Shipmap.org is an ambitious interactive WebGL map of commercial shipping movements based on hundreds of millions of data points from throughout 2012 (the most recent year for which all the raw...
This story features an agricultural project from Uganda. A team of scientists joined 358 farmers who sourced the data themselves for this project. In two districts they tested the best bean they...
Ever wonder which James Bond made the most money? How about which actor flirted with Moneypenny the most? Or who killed the most henchmen? I have. So I did what anybody would do: I sat down with a...
These two infographics were part of a series of infographics I created for the book "Wedged" by Erik Fogg and Nathaniel Greene (available on Amazon, the abortion infographic is the only one...
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...
Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible?
This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...
Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.
Our bodies are extraordinary. They contain elements that have a commercial value, megabytes of data, and trillions of cells, most of which aren't our own.
I picked the 24 cities based on a balancing act of the following criteria:
Cities with data-rich sources (some of the best historic data happens to be provided by international airports in...
timeglo.be uses Wikipedia and DBpedia to create a database of over 20000 events from world history, each with a short description, and plots them on an interactive 3D world map. You can put in...
For an article in the May issue of Scientific American, Eleanor Lutz—with input from Bradford J. Gemmell, a marine biologist at the University of South Florida—developed a series of...
Kaledata is an Italian hand drawn infographic news blog. Articles are published twice a month on average and focus on worldwide news and current events. Kaledata is in Italian but has an English...
'Some jobs are much more labor intensive and dangerous than others, so it's important to consider what kind of workers’ compensation is available in your state. For this data visualization, we took...
Objektivno was an internationally acclaimed project of Dnevnik, second largest newspaper in Slovenia, exploring journalism that bridged data, code, text and image. It appeared on the back page of...
Much of the American West is in a prolonged drought. Western Water tracks the water levels of reservoirs across the western United States. It is a proxy for water availability in the selected...