Despite massive computing power, it takes two days for the taste graph to completely refresh. It currently holds 500 million people, 200 million items and 30 billion edges, or links between users ...

You might think the best infographics consist of plain graphs and diagrams, but to truly engage an audience, design is your secret weapon. These handy visual aids are all about making data, timelines ...

We've all seen presentations that made us wonder, "What, exactly, is that graph saying? What am I looking at?" Hopefully, we haven't all given those presentations, but let's be honest—many of us ...

This 1821 bar chart—quoted by many as one of the first—show a simple but powerful thing: How much a quarter of wheat cost over three centuries, show both in shillings and the days’ wages of ...

That’s what Nebul.us is designed to solve. The Web browser plug-in, which was just launched this week in private beta, mines your Internet activity and feeds it back to you in a dynamic infographic.

“Baby,” “lonely” and “home.” “Money,” too, pops up fairly frequently, but sex and curse words like “ass” have only recently made it onto the charts, starting around the ’90s.