How deep is the Marianas Trench, that canyon under the Pacific? It's really deep. Deeper than you can conceive of, really. It's deeper than the height airplanes fly, for instance. Click here for the full version of this infographic.
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Last month we held a contest asking people to design an infographic about the earthquake in Haiti. The results were astounding. After the contest...
The designer Leonardo Aranda drew up this colorful chart showing how teams advanced through the NCAA basketball tournament between 1985 and...
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We have many dashboards available to us today in many contexts: finance, forecasts, consumption, demographics, etc. We witness the emergence...
If our pictures of fast food haven't totally put you off, you're in luck: In the United States, it is never more than 145 miles to the nearest...
We occasionally make infographics around here, so we were particularly interested to hear that the visualization guru Edward Tufte has been...
According to research from the University of California at San Diego-which has been transformed into this awesome accompanying graphic...
If you haven't already seen this Evolution of Storage infographic, take a look. It's beautiful and fun, and it has me thinking about the way we...
Over the weekend NYTimes put up a fantastic interactive graphic that allows you to "examine Netflix rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood,...
If you printed Twitter, you'd be able fill 133,000 copies of the King James Bible-and if you laid those printed pages end-to-end, they'd could be...
I've long dreamed of a beautiful marriage between This American Life and infographics, and earlier this year, that came to pass, as a designer...
"For every person who dies in a terrorist attack globally, 58 people in the United States die due to lack of health care." Discuss. Image...
What are people really buying online? According to this awesome infographic by Permuto (after the jump, and larger here), although clothing,...
If you were to design a Venn diagram with circles depicting people with an interest in drugs and people with an interest in Venn diagrams, its...
France. France? Yes, France. It may come as a shock to those Americans who cry "Socialism!" on a daily basis, but according to Business Insider,...
Information Is Beautiful has produced a fantastic infographical depiction (after the jump) of time travel in film and television. Though I...
"The State of the Internet" by Jess3 counts and assesses our astounding internet usage-with infographics. Watch it after the jump. That's a...
Earth Hour is today. If you want to participate, just turn off your lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time. Environmental benefits...
This elegant specimen is a soala. It lives in Laos and Vietnam and was only discovered in 1992. Apparently it's "one of the world's rarest...
We're getting a sequel to the Discovery Channel's BBC's breathtaking Planet Earth series. It's called Life, and its focus is more on animate...
