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 data visualization shows what Middle Eastern thinkers discovered long before the West. America, ... For example, almost a thousand years before Copernicus, ...

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 ...

This beautiful data visualization tool gives the first comprehensive, high-resolution look at deforestation around the world. It is based on 654,178 Landsat satellite images from the U.S ...

Colors are an effective medium for communicating meaning. Of all the design elements in a given data visualization – the headings, the analysis, the comparisons, and so on – color is arguably ...

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 ...

This interactive globe allows you to see almost real time information about the sea currents, winds and waves. It is a beautiful data visualization. This post is from Observer Short List—an ...