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...

Guided by experts, ProPublica calculated death and complication rates for surgeons performing one of eight elective procedures in Medicare, carefully adjusting for differences in patient health,...

Visualizing the social graph of the #GamerGate/#NotYourShield universe

The origin of vehicles in Costa Rica, including the most popular brands, the ports where they're imported into, and the countries they're exported from.

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

More than 12,000 people in Germany are currently waiting for a transplant operation. This project looks at organ donation from the point of view of both donors and recipients, visualising the...

Dutch Data Design is run by Mirjam Leunissen, an Amsterdam-based data visualization and infographics specialist with a scientific background.

Many economists believe the gap between the rich and everyone else is widening. Here's a look at why. Published by The Wall Street...

William Shakespeare coined these 300 words and phrases over 400 years ago. How often do we still use them?

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...

We studied the dynamics of innovations in the management of prostate cancer between 1980 and 2014 and calculated their distribution between 2015 and 2030. Our work is based on a semantic and...

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

This chart visualises the most decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014 http://www.prooffreader.com/

This infographic shows the market value of the ice cream industry in the world in 2015. The top consumers are shown for each category (Single Portion Dairy Ice Cream, Impulse Ice Cream, Retail...

4.7 million Colombians live abroad. 400,000 of those who left have refugee status or are applying for it. They live in 45 countries worldwide. Credits:  Data Visualization Chief: Alejandro...

Every day there are 3billion+ searches on Google. These implicit requests for information give us a unique insight into what the world cares about, intended and unintented.

Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the...

Helps brands and media to explore innovation. Believes in brainstorm and joined forces. Condenses all the necessary skills, from journalism to data science, graphic design, animation and...

Combine parties as best you can to form a workable government. You need 323 votes, probably, to survive a confidence vote, but you may find that some parties get along together better than...

FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves. As for me, I'm Nathan Yau and I have...

This project is the work of a volunteer for the Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation, an NGO based in Greece. Working with raw data with the intent of providing the organisation with a...

"Histography" is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new...

Incisive analysis and opinion around data visualization techniques, plus tutorials from the renowned University of Miami Knight Chair of Visual Journalism, Alberto Cairo. @albertocairo

The Washington Post weighted the style of facial hair, or lack thereof, of all active ballplayers on a scale of 0 to 8 — zero being clean shaven, eight being the grizzliest — then calculated...

This data-driven live wallpaper displays the battery, wireless signal and notifications in a simple wallpaper visualization. Published by Google Creative Lab. http://www.mikkelkoser.com/

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 dot here is a package. Position of a package is determined by force based graph layout algorithm and usually clusters together packages that depend on each other. Some packages are...

We give far too much credence to individual statistics on social and economic well-being. Take the poverty rate. That statistic tells us the share of the population below a specific income...

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...

“Who is the greatest singer?” is something which is debated endlessly. Data alone can’t easily answer this question, however there are data points which can add to the conversation. So, when Head...