Web publishing startup Medium has unveiled a handy new data visualization tool called Charted that allows anyone to make beautiful charts in seconds. Medium says Charted was initially built by its ...

Did you know that, according to IBM, more than 2.5 million terabytes of data is generated every single day? To put this into perspective, one terabyte of data can contain: 17,000 hours of music ...

Whether public transportation is the bane of your existence, a necessary evil, or your favorite part of modern infrastructure, we all can agree that, at the very least, subway cars and buses make some ...

An array of visualization products have emerged to help marketers turn “big data” into smart data. This week has brought announcements around visualization from the likes of Tag Man, Placeable and ...

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, ...

An infographic showcasing rappers’ relative vocabularies took first prize at the Information Is Beautiful Awards. See all the top winners here. An eye-catching infographic which maps rappers according ...

Science may be difficult, but it doesn't have to be ugly. These images, from a new exhibit at the British Library, show how beautiful scientific data can be. The exhibit features classic illustrations ...

It’s an understatement to say that the data visualization sphere has exploded over the past several years. As we look to understand the increasing, mind-bending amount of information that we all ...

When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn't plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological data visualization. In fact, he didn't ...

The history of scientific discovery is very focused on the discoveries of the West, so it’s wonderful to see this beautiful infographic from Information Is Beautiful, which visualizes what Middle ...