In the visual syntax of infographics and maps, bigger equals… well, bigger. Large dots on a map or bars in a chart correspond to a proportionally large quantity of stuff being visualized–like, for ...

We post a lot of infographics, but we pass on even more of them. A common shortcoming of global maps is fairly simple: They favor the most developed parts of the world. Even a very scientific map ...

The following is an excerpt from the new updated and expanded edition of TIME: The Illustrated History of the World’s Most Influential Magazine: In 1937, five years before the United States fully ...

Entry in the 2011 Urban Water Design Challenge, sponsored by Visualizing.org and Circle of Blue. Alberto González submitted this infographic for the 2011 Urban Water Design Challenge—sponsored by ...

As adept as humans have become at designing and building safer cities, we're still far from immune to the kind of devastation brought on by natural disasters. Americans received a reminder of this ...

The seven major river basins, as a whole, have had steady improvements in water quality over the past decade. The water quality of the Pearl River and the Yangtze River are the best among the seven ...

As we've noted before (here and here, for instance), we love a good infographic. So we're pleased that Mint has allowed us to use their map of how much their users spend on gasoline--showing which U.S ...

Infographics, an effective form of content marketing, are everywhere on the Web, but it isn't always easy to come up with good designs when you want to create one yourself, especially if you're not ...

Yesterday, Eric Fischer’s amazing Flickr set of maps illustrating the racial segregation and integration of various American city’s went viral. Using data from the 2000 census, Fischer’s maps ...

Near the end of 1861, with the American Union crumbling, President Abraham Lincoln became obsessed with an unusual document. Nearly three feet in length, it appeared at first to be a map of the ...