Mapping the world’s immigrants. Compare and contrast with this visualization of global brain drain.

Meanwhile, an economic case for the value of immigrants. 

London’s explosive population change 1801-2011, in an animated GIF. Compare and contrast with a similar visualization in vintage infographics. 

Dorothy Gambrell maps the most frequent Craigslist missed connections in each state. Second only to Sophie Blackall’s illustrated missed connections. 

Mapping the distribution of higher education in America. Compare and contrast with the distribution of poverty:

After mapping New York City’s dogs and Twitter languages, mapping the city’s coffee and tea consumption

The Guardian data team maps the Twitter languages of NYC – best thing since mapping the dogs of NYC.

Big data can solve big problems. 

Data artist Jer Thorp on visualizing the world’s Twitter data to reveal hidden patterns in everything from media to how disease spreads. 

Mapping America’s happiest city. It’s no coincidence that the highest reported happiness comes from areas with high walkability. 

In this excerpt from BBC’s The Joy of Stats, visualization maestro Hans Rosling traces in under 3 minutes the incredible progress of the “developing world” over the past half-century. Also see Rosling’s visualization of 200 countries over 200 years in four minutes.

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Mapping LGBT rights in the American workplace.

New Pew study charts the explosive growth of American social media. Usage of Twitter alone is now at a 16%, having doubled since late 2010.

Your likelihood of dying various deaths.

Rent is too damn high, San Francisco edition – fantastic new tool by Jeff Kaufman renders heatmaps of rent prices in several cities.

Kurt Vonnegut had some thoughts on that.

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Neil Freeman redraws the US into 50 new states with equal population.

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Amazing visualization of global “brain drain” in science, inspired by abstract art.