Information is Beautiful, the Web site on data visualization created by independent information designer David McCandless, soon will be giving a total of $30,000 in awards for, you guessed it, ...

Since the early 19th century, many chess grandmasters have come and gone, some better than others. This elegant data visualization by Abacaba shows which players were the very best, and how long they ...

How does the electrical activity in your brain differ when you see a person or see a picture of that person, or when you hear a song or sing the same song to yourself? A visualization called ...

The work is unique for sure. The first piece is basically a reverse-blooming timeline, in which several events (from the discovery of X-rays to the development of plutonium) converge into a single ...

If you’ve ever glanced at a conductor’s score for a symphony — or, let’s be honest, a 9th-grader’s piano book — you’ll have realised that musical notation is a pain to follow. So instead, this ...

A new project from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office has actually mapped out Earth’s yearly carbon cycle into a beautiful, three-minute video. NASA Goddard’s ...

For all the recent mayoral attention stop and frisk has caught in New York, a visualization as glaring as this was bound to get attention. From the subscription-based data visualization startup BKLYNR ...

Meteorologists complain about how difficult it is to actually predict the weather (so lay off already!), but astronomers will tell you that's peanuts compared to space weather. Earth is a closed ...