The Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph is a RDF dataset of over 8 billion triples of information about academic publications across 200,000+ fields of study.
German data visualisation company Figures have created a data visualisation that illustrates the prevaling direction of the wind based on the direction of airport runways across the world.
BBC News published an interesting interactive data visualisation showing the best case, medium-low, medium-high and worst case projected temperature increase scenarios for cities by 2100.
The Guardian published a very informative interactive visualisation on UK exports and imports to and from Europe, with the hope of preparing people for changes in their post no-deal Brexit shop. The site highlights some top level items but also allows you to select any category of good to see that import and export flow. Turns out the UK exports £27m worth of potatoes to Ireland.
Information Is Beautiful released a fascinating data-visualisation comparing the size of different codebases, such as the 40,000 lines of code in the space shuttle vs the 40,000,000 lines of code in Windows XP! Check out the full list here.
Information Is Beautiful have published a fantastic, informative and very important visualisation of the breakdown of the 51.8 Gigatonnes of CO2e emission we produce each year. The visualiastion also lays out the amount of reduction needed in each category to half the emissions by 2013 and reach net zero by 2050.
Trennd collates the top google searches over time, to show you the popular topics as and when they blow up. You can search from 5 years to 3 months and you can see the monthly growth exponent and curve growth gradient.
The Guardian have released a flight carbon calculator, allowing you to select your starting and destination airports to see how much kilograms of CO2 emmissions are released per passenger on that return flight. it also shows you how many countries emit less CO2 per person per year compared to that flight. Aviation is responsible for 2% of global emissions and are set to at least double by 2050 :-(
