Examining the gender of writers, producers, and directors who make films that fail the Bechdel test.

A series of graphics accompanied this article on Flint's water crisis. These graphics took pains to convey the statistical sampling that was being used to test Flint's water, and how seemingly...

Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a...

Our health system is primarily focused on medical information for each patient when in reality, the majority of our health is determined by factors outside that space. The Determinants of Health is...

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, millions were displaced, and once bustling communities became husks of their past selves. While the emptiness of these places is...

This A2 fold-out poster was sent out to around 30,000 general practitioners (family doctors) in the UK, in the GP edition of The BMJ. It shows the UK guidance on cancer referral (produced by NICE)...

Topics and places the world is reporting on right now. Explore what shapes our different perspectives.

Interactive neural network widget visualises outcomes of machine learning according to different parameters.

PhotoViz is a presentation, curriculum and book about the overlap between photography and data visualization. From a talk at Webstock, the concept matured into a class at NYU’s ITP before being...

Analysis of what makes Serena Williams the best tennis player of all time.

A century ago The Netherlands counted 6.5 million inhabitants. On March 21st of this year that number officially reached a total of no less than 17 million. That same day we published a combination...

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.

“Roads to Rome” is a data visualization project exploring one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility: Do all roads really lead to Rome? The project resides somewhere between data...

When numbers get into the billions or trillions, they start to lose context. The U.S. national debt is one of those numbers. It currently sits at $19.5 trillion, which is actually such a large...

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.

The visualization shows the meals described in 49 novels. The descriptions and the novels have been selected by Dinah Fried, who has collected them in the book Fictitious Dishes: An Album of...

Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis and data visualization to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, sports, science, economics and culture.

These data visualizations aren't for our community, they're for the non-experts who so often find numbers daunting, disinteresting or just plain dubious. Although they're statistically...

How much money exists in the world? Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

The analysis of collaboration patterns both between institutions and among countries. Scientific collaborations play an increasingly important role in driving world-leading research. Nature...

From 'vehemently oppose' to 'all in': explore the universe of positions on Donald Trump. See which politicians have been sucked into orbit by the gas giant and which ones are resisting the pull.

Economist and data visualization and presentation skills specialist Jon Schwabish talks about data visualization, presentation skills, presentation design, open data, and technology.

The IBM Watson News Explorer uses the AlchemyData News API to automatically construct a news information network and present large volumes of news results in an understandable fashion. It uses...

With all of their songs being available now on streaming services I thought I would analyze some data about one of the greatest bands of all time: The Beatles. This visualization looks at their...

What are investors looking for in companies and founders? The data looks at 890 U.S. startups that were founded from 2009-2015 and received at least $20 million in VC and other equity funding.

With the Australian federal election drawing near, we set out to explain why Australians had varying levels of influence on the outcome. We included various factors which could effectively...

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...

This is a map showing over five years of drought data (285 weeks, combined into a single view) in the United States. The dots are proportionally sized by the amount of time over the past five...

Welcome to the Sage Project, a new platform where design and technology come together to create the food labels we’ve always wanted — smart, simple, and personalized.