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....
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...
The artwork shows the 25 richest DJs in the world in 2015. For each it is shown: the nation of belonging, the genre according to the English version of Wikipedia, on x-axis the millions of...
Every year the de Volkskrant newspaper calculates the political influence of 23,000 important non-political individuals in The Netherlands.
By doing so the paper identifies a ‘shadow elite’ of...
Some of the greatest reflections on society take place in film, through complex characters, often falling into familiar patterns called “Tropes”. Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer...
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...
Every day since Nov. 17, 2014, ProPublica has been testing whether the homepages of international news organizations are accessible to browsers inside China. Of the 18 in our test, 3 are...
The panorama view shows the 50 top songs as individual planetary systems with the original work as the sun. Each planet represents a version of the song and it’s appearance indicates...
Where is the population of Europe actually growing and where is it declining? This map provides a picture of unprecedented detail, showing population growth in 119,406 municipalities from 43...
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...
Left Behind is the latest in a series of campaign-oriented data products created for UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Launched to coincide with International Women's Day 2015, Left Behind allows...
I am a freak for the American road trip. And I'm not alone, as some of this country's best writers have taken a shot at describing that quintessentially American experience. “There is no such...
Bike commuting throughout the city is often like this: cobbled together out of a bit of bike lane here, an unprotected shoulder there, a scrap of sharrow and some silent pleas that cars won't run...
The project is an animation that illustrates a research where scientists have been able to create a very accurate estimate of the total number of trees in the world. This animation illustrates the...
Motion infographic based around the Battle of Stalingrad, showing the causes of the Red Army's victory.
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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...
Big Data techniques and data from over 300,000 cellphone users living in Barcelona, duly aggregated and anonymized, provided the basis for a new map of commuting patterns in the city. Specifically,...
Mirador is a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets. It enables users to discover correlation patterns and derive new hypotheses from the data.
This analysis by University of Oxford researchers of previous outbreaks shows that the death rate has been greater than 33 percent and that there is often more than one cluster of infections,...
matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms.
There are more than 1,200 active satellites orbiting earth right now, taking pictures, relaying communications, broadcasting locations, spying on you, and even housing humans. Thanks to a database...
Presidential candidates like to talk about leadership, but whom do they follow? Bloomberg Politics scoured the Twitter accounts of Republicans eyeing the White House for clues about their...