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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Here’s the thing about expensive, hulking DSLR cameras: They take beautiful photographs, but only if you know how to use them. And understanding the various settings—adjusting shutter speed and ...

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 ...