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, ...

This beautiful swirling video tracks the movement of the ozone layer as it passes over the Southern Pole during an entire year. The data, collected by Europe’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Research has released SandDance, a free data visualization app that lets you gain insight in your surveys and research projects. Simply fire it up in your browser, upload a data set (TXT, ...

A stunning, blue-and-green visualization of the globe allows viewers to see the world's wind and weather patterns as forecast by supercomputers around the world. The striking animation, called "earth, ...

A stunning, blue-and-green visualization of the globe allows viewers to see the world’s wind and weather patterns as forecast by supercomputers around the world. The visualization recently provided a ...