Information is Beautiful
informationisbeautiful.net
Design-led charts answering questions tables cannot
Data Made Visible
News stories where the graphic is the reporting
reuters.com
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Reuters' visual team publishes standalone interactive pieces on conflict, shipping, climate and elections, often reconstructing an event in 3D from satellite imagery. The pieces are free to read, and methodology notes set out where each dataset came from.
The reconstructions that rebuild a single incident from satellite passes and ship transponder logs show their working in a way prose cannot.
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Picked for a shared category and overlapping vibe, not for popularity.
informationisbeautiful.net
Design-led charts answering questions tables cannot
data-is-plural.com
A weekly note listing five datasets you can have
gapminder.org
Hans Rosling's bubble chart, still worth an hour
pewresearch.org
Survey findings with all the tables still attached
rawgraphs.io
Paste a spreadsheet, drag it into a real chart
usafacts.org
US government numbers, assembled without a slant