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Florence Nightingale was a talented statistician trained from an early age by her father’s connections in the Cambridge mathematics department. She met legendary mathematician Charles…

‘History of the Civil War in the United States’ is a fascinating piece, as much for the ways in which it succeeds as for the…

This modern video timeline of the Civil War showcases some of the potential applications for introducing interactivity and responsiveness into conventional data visualization tools like…

Valentina D’Efilippo’s interactive online data visualization ‘Poppy Field’ memorializes the dead of all of the conflicts from 1900-2014. However, it is framed around World War…

Neil Halloran’s interactive video ‘The Fallen of World War II’ reimagines the data from the second World War in ways that are as fascinating and…

This 2016 infographic map of the Vietnam War uses Department of Defense declassified digital geographic data on bombings throughout the war to paint a haunting picture…

The Guardian has become known for its prolific and often masterful use of infographics. This piece by Paul Scruton deploys multiple visualization techniques ranging from…

This piece from 2010 details the civilian casualties from the War in Afghanistan through an interactive plume graph produced for Science Magazine. A static version…

Alessandro Zotta’s 2017 piece ‘On Their Way’ beautifully dissects the path taken to (and from) the ranks of IS, showing the source countries and contextualizing…