We love movie villains (they're often the most int...  ...choose a villain for films. Vulture put together data from the ten highest-grossing films of each of th...

Bill Rankin at Radical Cartography created a set of maps that show the growth of slavery in the US between 1790 and 1870. The population of the US is indicated by the size of dots on each 250-square-mile cell, and the pe...

Randal Munro of the webcomic xkcd illustrates how much we Americans consume of various fluids as if they were conveyed, like water and oil, through pipelines. He's got everything, including breast milk, glass, and cement...

The Information is Beautiful Awards exist to recog...  ...rds exist to recognize outstanding achievement in data visualization . The awards for 2015 have been announced. The Gol...  ...art for measles is shown here. Other awards go to data visualizations about languages, politics, climate change, educat...

National Geographic brings us an interactive data visualization project that breaks down world food consumption....

Cameron Beccario put together a beautiful interact...  ...ron Beccario put together a beautiful interactive visualization of global weather conditions called simply &ldquo...  ...” It’s a virtual globe, with animated data on weather conditions and ocean currents worldwid...  ...dquo; to bring up a co...

Shown on this map (which is interactive at the lin...  ...ned by. It can get confusing fast. There are also visualizations for Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, J...

Check out this visualization by David Paliwoda that gives us a sense of the as...