Facebook intern Paul Butler trawled more than 500 million Facebook profiles to create a stunning visualisation of friendships round the world this week. We take a look at the best data visualisations ...

How do we practice data journalism at the Guardian? In his forward for Facts are Sacred, Guardian's editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger explains how data is changing journalism A new book published by the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen political leaders and civil servants using data visualisation to describe the situation and justify their decisions. But it has also demonstrated that while software ...

In case you hadn't noticed, there's an infographic boom going on out there on the web. Just a glance at our data blogosphere will show you how infographics are becoming the language of the internet - ...

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“THE biggest myth is that if we save all the poor kids, we will destroy the planet,” says Hans Rosling, a doctor and professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. “But you ...

A few years ago, a political party in India tweeted a particular bar chart that a lot of you may not have forgotten. The chart depicted fuel prices over the years. The last bar in the chart was the ...