Honest-to-gosh data visualization, created in 1870 for the 9th US Census. Amazing quality and care.

This page presents a scientific paper that has been redesigned as a sequence of illustrations with captions. This comic-like format, with tightly-coupled pictures and prose, allows the author to depict and describe simultaneously — show and tell.

From @worrydream.

A very impressive visualization showing population density across the world as we head to 7 billion.

The world is amazing.

Radical visualization of Foursquare checkins across the globe.

A great visualization: chart any word to see how frequently it appears in Popular Science's archives.