OpenStreetMap, the free wiki world map, is a wonderful little project that has become hugely successful. Now, the team behind it has released a report which explains how it's changed over the last eight years—and some of the results are damn pretty. Read More >>

Since 2005 BC over 35,000 meteorites are known to have hit the Earth — but just 1,107 have actually been seen falling. This visualisation shows how they pockmarked our planet over time. Read More >>

Holidays. Paydays. Your birthday. They're all important in their own special ways. But which day of the year is the most important? This handy calendar visualization from xkcd reveals all. Read More >>

You hear about millions of computers getting infected with malware, but it's pretty difficult to actually visualise in your mind; it's just a number. The HoneyMap shows in real time, where on the planet people are being attacked and, interestingly, from where. Both mesmerising and scary at the same time. Read More >>

Sometimes, the best bits of data analysis are the simplest ones. Like this gem, uncovered by The Economist yesterday, which shows the average number of minutes you need to work in order to afford a beer. Read More >>

If you've ever wondered how the arms trade—both civilian and military—pans out around the globe, be puzzled no longer. Google has just created a wonderful little visualisation, which shows all the (known) arms trade between the globe's countries over the past 20 years. Read More >>

Try to picture the internet and you invariably have a hard time. Fortunately, Ruslan Enikeev has decided to help you out by creating a map which organizes websites by popularity and similarity. Read More >>

The route to answering the big questions these days — like, soda or pop? — is to grab a bunch of data from Twitter and analyse it. Which is exactly what Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, decided to do. Read More >>

If you've ever wondered where all the world's tweets come from, wonder no more. This visualisation, put together by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, shows the origins of the entire globe's tweets. Read More >>

There are plenty of examples of cliches in movie poster imagery. But here's a neat visualisation of how, on a more basic level, the colours used in Hollywood ads have changed over time. Read More >>

I just love these old school visualisations: here are all the ships lost by the British Navy during World War II. Many of these were hunted down by Nazi U-Boats. It's a staggering amount but it could have been a lot worse. Read More >>

This is one amazing visualisation by the U.S. Geological Survey: a picture that gives you a perfect idea of how much water there is on Earth compared to the solid materials that form its main body. It's truly staggering: Read More >>

If we are what we eat, then plenty of us are massive, walking cheeseburgers. But this data visualisation shows how average eating health varies around the world—and how it changes over the course of a full day. Read More >>

If you've ever wondered how movies vary in colour and motion, scene-by-scence, don't worry any more. Cinemetrics is a project that's decoding and visualising films, and you can see it in action here. Read More >>