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Visual journalism and open data done properly — charts you can interrogate rather than just look at. The argument is in the interaction.
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A weekly newsletter of unusual public datasets, with an archive of thousands you had no idea were collected.
The charting tool most newsrooms quietly rely on, free at the sizes any one person will ever need.
Animated bar chart races, scrollytelling and story maps built from a spreadsheet without writing any code.
Nathan Yau's long-running blog on charts done well and badly, plus his own studies of how a day gets spent.
Hans Rosling's animated bubble chart of the world, still the fastest cure for being wrong about global development.
David McCandless's poster-grade infographics on everything from relative drug harms to the meanings of colours.
Every open source project plotted as a landmass, with related repositories clustering into continents you can pan across.
Notebooks for building charts in the browser, with a public gallery of thousands you can fork and pull apart.
Oxford's open charts on poverty, energy, health and war, with the underlying data downloadable from every single one.
MIT's ranking of historically famous people by how many language editions of Wikipedia bother to carry them.
Age pyramids for any country from 1950 to 2100, which settles most demographic arguments in a single shape.
Paste a spreadsheet, pick from chart types most tools refuse to offer, and export an editable vector file.
A reference of every chart type and what each is genuinely for, worth reading before defaulting to a bar chart.
Daily infographics on markets, commodities and demographics, designed to be understood in a single glance.
Free indicators for every country going back decades, with charts, maps and bulk downloads on each series.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.