It's the question that drives us.

Self-proclaimed "cartonerd" Ken Field published a gallery of alternative election maps designed to reveal markedly different stories about the US.

Cartographers, rejoice. By Anika Burgess.

The tableplot is a powerful visualization method to explore and analyse large multivariate datasets. In this vignette, the implementation of tableplots in R is described, and illustrated with the diamonds dataset from the ggplot2 package.

Despite the simplicity of discrete event data, it’s hard to visualize many events over a long time period without hiding details about shorter timescales.

America is an exceptional country when it comes to guns. It's one of the few countries in which the right to bear arms is constitutionally protected, and presidential candidates in other nations don't cook bacon with guns. But America's relationship with guns is unique in another crucial way: Among developed nations, the US is far and away the most violent — in large part due to the easy access many Americans have to firearms.

Life expectancy, health risks, health expenditure

The adventures of the greatest trophy in sports.

Mapbox's Eric Fischer has been working on the "Geotaggers' World Atlas" for five years, using locations of photos uploaded on Flickr over a decade. In his city maps, which now span the world, he connects the dots between subsequent photos taken by a photographer—representing their path in sketchy lines that criss-cross across the city.

When he wasn't blackmailing lords and being sued for libel, William Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the line graph.

Do echinacea & Vitamin C kill colds? Will turmeric, goji berries or wheatgrass help you live to 150? See which health supplements are and aren't backed by science in this interactive chart.

Early iterations saved soldiers' lives, debunked myths about slavery and helped Americans settle the frontier

Ever-faster feedback loops and micro-targeted digital porn are pushing human sexuality into some seriously weird places

“Our basic approach involved a machine learning technique called ‘transfer learning,’ which is the idea that you can solve a hard problem—in our case, predicting poverty from satellite images—by trying to solve an easier one. As you solve that, you can learn things that are transferable to help you solve the more difficult issue,” Jean added.

The map we never knew we needed.

Taking a backup of the data that you are using for your work on the internet is one of the most important things that one must do.

OECD Health Statistics 2016 is the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. All datasets have been updated in October 2016.

Big data scientists can store human genomes for easy access. But what challenges do they face when it comes to storage and privacy?

To mark the 75th anniversary of its Cartography Center, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) shared decades of declassified maps.

All the weeks in a human life shown on one chart. Sometimes life seems really short, and other times it seems impossibly long. But this chart helps to emphasize that it’s most certainly finite. Those are your weeks and they’re all you’ve got. Given that fact, the only appropriate word to describe your weeks is precious. There are trillions upon trillions of weeks in eternity, and those are your tiny handful. Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond.

This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life. Compare it with 361 other OECD regions.

Charles Joseph Minard’s name is synonymous with an outstanding 1869 graphic depicting the horrific loss of life that Napoleon’s army suffered in 1812 and 1813, during its invasion of Russia and subsequent retreat. The graphic (below), which is often referred to simply as “Napoleon’s March” or “the Minard graphic,” rose to its prominent position in the pantheon of data visualizations largely thanks to praise from one of the field’s modern giants, Edward Tufte.

The New York Public Library's NYC Space/Time Directory is a "digital time-travel service" for their collections of maps and geospatial data.

The nation has largely won the war on smoking, unless you’re uneducated or live in a rural area.

Let's take the VII from Londinium to Letocetum.

10,000 photos of a charred neighborhood, stitched together. By Samantha Cole.

Data from the Global Terrorism Database compiled into a stunning data visualization puts two decades of terrorist activity into startling perspective.

Experiment to map many of the airline flights between world airports. It's <strong>not</strong> showing real time positions (which would be amazing but I don't have that data) but rather, great-circle routes between major airports based on flight data from the Open Flights

Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.

The ocean is a big place, which makes it a pretty difficult thing to wrap our brains around. It covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface, is home to millions of species of life, and it makes up 97% of all water on the planet. But, with this massive size and ubiquity also comes a significant challenge for humans interested in trade: it must be constantly traversed in order for us to move goods around.

The most comprehensive listing of country health profiles and world health rankings for all leading causes of death ever assembled in one place. (2014-WHO)

This is a map of the Pangea supercontinent created by digital artist Massimo Pietrobon with all the modern countries labeled.

A fitness tracking app is revealing potentially sensitive military information thanks to its global heatmap.

US military officials were recently caught off guard by revelations that service members' digital fitness trackers were storing the locations of their workouts – including at or near military bases and clandestine sites around the world.