On April Fools Day 2004, Google launched Gmail, and it wasn't long before @gmail.com email addresses usurped the kingdom of Hotmail. Google just posted a nice visualisation of the service's evolution from a humble beta to a Google Goliath. Read More >>

You think you're a coffe connoisseur? Well then, you should have no problem ordering your pick-me-up of choice from this menu, which lists drink options purely by the ratios of coffee, milk, water and air present in the beverage. Read More >>

Jon Millward deosn't watch porn like the average man: instead, he sees it as a heaving data set to analyse and graph. No, really. That's why he's visualised porn star demographics to work out what the typical, ahem, actress look like. Read More >>

When Arthur Buxton stumbled across a super-organized archive of Penguin's science fiction, he thought it would be interesting to look at how the covers of the books had changed over time. He was right—and the labor of his work is this striking visualization. Buxton explains: Read More >>

Sometimes, simple explanations can be the most revealing. Take this map, for example, which depicts thousands of years of human history by representing each country with a single word. Turns out to be painfully accurate. Read More >>

If you're an IT security nerd specialist holed up in some corporation's basement, you probably don't find this real-time visualisation of the world's cyber attacks to be beautiful. But the rest of us can sit back and appreciate the eye candy. 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 >>

Visualising how the world's ideas fit together is no mean feat. But now you don't have to struggle, because Brendan Griffen has mined Wikipedia to create a map of how the world's greatest thinkers influenced each other. Read More >>

Most emerging human diseases come from animals. This map, created by the International Livestock Research Institute, shows the geographical locations of events where a disease has crossed over from animals to humans. Do you live near a hotspot? Read More >>

The Federation of American Scientists have a very interesting map for all the hypochondriacs and people living in permanent fear of a deadly virus epidemic. Or a zombie outbreak. These are all the (known) Biosafety Level 3 and 4 facilities in the world—high containment laboratories that work with "dangerous and emerging pathogens." Zoom in the image to see if there's any near you. Read More >>

There's something about this animation that has me totally mesmerised. Like a lava lamp, but better. It's as if Earth has an invisible heart beat showing through the surface temperature of our oceans. Beautiful. Read More >>

This is a very simple and brilliant visualisation of all planets known to humankind as of June 2012. There are 786, including the eight in our Solar System, which is shown in the grey square in the centre. Read More >>

Your birthday! The day you feel like the most special person on the planet! The day you get to do what you want. But don't forget, other people share your birthday too. In fact, a lot of people do. What are the most common birthdays? Check out this snazzy visualisation to find out. Read More >>

In 1804 we were one billion humans in this planet. Now we are seven billion. How the hell did we grew so much is so little time? This video by National Public Radio has the answer. [NPR] Read More >>