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Watching someone slowly turn on a light switch seems like an excruciatingly boring way to spend 30 seconds. But when…

The Star Wars expanded universe is huge. Really huge. Like, you just won’t believe how vastly, hugely,…

Oxford University’s Max Roser has meticulously pieced together a chart showing the global death rate from war over…

This is God’s work. Or at the very least, the work of a Grand Maester. Joeltronics made this very useful graph that…

Last night, the world seemed exciting and you felt like you could achieve anything. This morning, all you want to do…

This rather clunky looking formula—made more clunky by its pixelated nature—is actually rather special. Because the…

From the collection of the National Archives UK, this awesomely simple chart was drawn in 1969. Some of them look…

Our moods ebb and flow with the seasons. They also change quite dramatically over the course of a single week. These…

There are a lot of laptops out there. A lot. Too many to navigate easily. But this chart thrown together by Marek…

You might've thought that music is one thing that can escape the current 'big data' trend of mapping, charting and…

There are so many, many ways to graphically convey scientific data. But depending on how this information is…

It's not often that you get the chance to say, "You probably won't know this song, it's pretty obscure" about a hit…

It's like the rabbit-duck illusion, but with directions. [via Qikipedia]

You're almost exactly as likely to skip a song while streaming music as you are to listen to the whole thing. This…

The Economist brought interactive datavisualization to its print edition this week with an unsettling infographic on…

Struggling to remember the affiliations of all the different characters on Game of Thrones and whether they're still…

Here's some news to file under "dystopian future": Energy drink sales are skyrocketing so quickly that analysts are…

Here's some impressive planetary perspective: Last Wednesday, NASA's Kepler mission announced the discovery of 715…

Good news! Mathematics has confirmed what we already suspected: You should most definitely be ordering a larger…

Nathan Yau over at FlowingData has turned 100 of the most memorable movie quotes ever into chart form — and they are…