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.

The map we never knew we needed.

“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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The adventures of the greatest trophy in sports.

Life expectancy, health risks, health expenditure

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.

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.

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.