Daily Infographic: What Is The Real Status Of The Polar Bears?
Polar Politics mag3737 via flickr We like polar bears, but we don't like how they've been bandied about by advocates on both sides of the political debate over climate change. That's why we think...
View ArticleDaily Infographic: Who's Been In The Most James Bond Movies?
James Bond Actors Network Ramiro Gómez,, Exploring Data The 50th anniversary of James Bond--and the upcoming release of Skyfall, the newest film--have inspired a wealth of infographics over the last...
View ArticleDaily Infographic: If Everyone Lived Like An American, How Many Earths Would...
Ecological Footprints Tim De Chant, Per Square Mile You're probably already aware that Americans consume a disproportional amount of the world's stuff. You may even have bumped into some of the...
View ArticleA Visualization Of The Most Invisible, And Influential, Part Of Political...
MoneyBombs Lazer Lab, Northeastern University When I hear the phrase "political action," I think of public demonstrations. But the most influential form of political action has nothing to do with...
View ArticleDaily Infographic: 9,993 Bird Species On One Tree (Now Zoomable!)
A few weeks ago, we brought you a story about the first-ever family tree of every living bird on Earth. In addition to that excellent story, we thought you might like to explore the map for yourself....
View ArticleHow The Internet Has Spread Around The World [Infographic]
When Tim Berner-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1991, it was a bit of a misnomer--at the time, virtually all of the world's five million internet users were concentrated in just 12 countries, and 70...
View ArticleWays The World Might Actually End [Infographic]
Welp, here we all are still, the day after tomorrow. Or is today the day after the day after tomorrow? Either way, it's time to put the Mayan apocalypse behind us and start thinking about other ways...
View ArticleWhat Do People In Iran Think About Global Warming? [Infographic]
When the U.S. economy began to plunge in 2008, so did Americans' belief in climate change--opinion polls showed that the percentage of Americans who thought the climate was changing dropped 14 points,...
View Article21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words [Infographic]
Few of us use all--or even most--of the 3,000 English-language words available to us for describing our emotions, but even if we did, most of us would still experience feelings for which there are,...
View ArticleHow Much Would It Cost To Live On Mars? [Infographic]
Mars Lander Concept Wikimedia Commons Somebody--no one remembers exactly who--once said that there are three things that matter in real estate: location, location, location. And so it seems: a...
View ArticleA Map Of The Internet Universe [Infographic]
You Are Here Internet Universe/E. Elert As of last year, there were something like 650 million active web sites on the Internet. That number is growing fast, but even if it weren't--even if it stopped...
View ArticleA Map Of NFL Team Allegiance
A Map Of Football Fandom Sean Taylor/Facebook Data Science TeamWe've posted visualizations from Facebook's Data Science Team before, but I think it's safe to say that their newest effort--a...
View ArticleMapping The Birth Of An Art Movement [Infographic]
Abstract Connections MOMA One of the strangest developments in the whole history of human art came in 1911, when famous painters began producing pieces that looked--to the untrained eye, at any...
View ArticleEverybody Killed With Guns In The U.S. In 2010 [Infographic]
A new graphic by the data visualization firm Periscopic shows the 9,595 gun murders in the U.S. in 2010. The life of each person is represented by an arc that tells two stories. The yellow/orange...
View ArticleA 24-Hour Crisis Map Built From Hurricane Sandy Photos
Data collected by citizens and posted publicly can create a portrait of a city. This graphic, part of a larger multiuniversity collaboration called Phototrails, shows…
View ArticleAre Your Wrists At Risk For Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Are your wrists at risk for carpal tunnel syndrome?
View ArticleThe Felton Annual Report: A Year's Worth Of Communication In One Chart
For nearly a decade, Nicholas Felton has been observing himself and using the information he collects to create a mock corporate annual report. In 2013, he tried to record…
View ArticleYears Of Chinese Air Pollution Data Captured In Swirling Charts
Xiaoji Chen set out to find patterns in the air pollution that plagues Chinese cities. Using data from the country’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, she created spirals…
View ArticleWorld Population Mapped As Peaks And Valleys
James Cheshire mapped the world’s population in a new way. Omitting any shorelines or country boundaries, he drew horizontal latitude lines that zigzag upward in black…
View ArticleEarth's Most Remote Locations Revealed In 'Lonely Planet' Cartogram
Cartograms—maps distorted so that instead of land area, they portray another quantity such as population or electoral-college votes—have existed since the early 1900s.
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