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 ...

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 ...

A new project from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office has actually mapped out Earth’s yearly carbon cycle into a beautiful, three-minute video. NASA Goddard’s ...

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, ...

Meteorologists complain about how difficult it is to actually predict the weather (so lay off already!), but astronomers will tell you that's peanuts compared to space weather. Earth is a closed ...

Sometimes you stumble upon a site that is truly amazing. This is one of those times. A new project simply called "earth" aims provide a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by ...