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Which Famous Singers Have The Widest Vocal Ranges?
Concerthotels.com has put together a neat interactive showcasing the (in-studio) vocal ranges of over 7o famous figures. The top of the list is above. Axl Rose is your surprising victor, but the high...
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The Time Travel Of Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Visualized
Over on FlipFlopFlyin’, Craig Robinson has put together a graphic summarizing all the time travel in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. The film leaves some of the exact dates open to...
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Heights And Weights Of Athletes, By Position, In The "Big Four" Sports
Last fall, Craig Booth put together an excellent series of charts on the heights and weights of current NFL players , by position. Now Sportchart—who created that NHL map from a few weeks ago—has...
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Have Spelling Bee "Winning Words" Always Been So Obscure?
Arvind Mahankali won the 2013 National Spelling Bee on “knaidel,” a type of dumpling. The winning word the year prior was “guetapens,” before that “cymotrichous,” and before that “stromuhr.” Have...
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How Did 50 Cent’s Attempt Compare To Other Famous First Pitches?
Was 50 Cent’s terrible first pitch the worst of all time? To find out, the Washington Post Wonkblog went to the tape on 30 notable first pitches, and plotted their location on the chart above. Read...
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Watch Football Players Get Taller And Heavier Over 90 Years Of The NFL
NFL height/weight data has been visualized before , but a new animation by WYNC’s Noah Veltman may be the snappiest version yet. Over on his site you can watch the size of NFL players steadily expand...
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All 204 World Cup Shootout Attempts, In One Chart
With the tournament starting next week, the BBC has put together a neat little guide on “what makes the perfect World Cup shootout penalty.” The graphic above—showing the location and result of all...
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Which Countries Get Carded The Most At The World Cup?
Quartz has crunched the numbers on World Cup penalties, counting all the yellow and red cards for every squad back to 1970. Slovenia comes in number one, racking up 20 cards in their six World Cup...
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Which Hockey Leagues Have The Most Fights?
The NHL has a lot more fights than, say, the NFL, but how does it stack up against other levels of hockey competition? To find out, Simon Garnier of Graph Zoo pulled data from the (hilariously ’90s)...
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How Many Teams Could Your Favorite World Cup Star Have Played For?
Diego Costa’s decision to play for Spain —even though he was born and raised in Brazil—didn’t seem to help La Roja all that much on Friday, but FIFA’s wisely broad nationality rules still piss off a...
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Berlin Residents Synchronized Their Pee Breaks During Germany-Portugal
Germany stomped Portugal 4-0 on Monday, and it seems as if the whole city of Berlin was watching intently. The chart above—from the city’s public water utility—shows water usage from 6 p.m. on the day...
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Which Soccer Leagues Are Having The Most Success At The World Cup?
For people who really know their shit about soccer, one of the fun bits of the World Cup is recognizing which club-level teammates and rivals are facing off for their various national squads. Which of...
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Chart: Scoring At The 2014 World Cup Has Been Bonkers
Over on Stats In the Wild, Gregory Matthews has visualized how much scoring there’s been at the 2014 World Cup, using the clever grid chart you see above. The goals of the “winning” team—draws are...
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When And Where Do Americans "Rise And Grind"?
For years, the phrase “rise and grind” has inspired Twitter users to get on their feet and face the day. When is America rising, we wondered, and where is it grinding the most? Read more…
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What Are New York City’s Most Popular Dog Names?
What’s the typical New York dog? Is it a yippy little terrier named Lucky leaving little brown obstacles for Upper East Side pedestrians? Is it a retriever named Bella tolerating the demon children of...
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This Interactive Wheel Of Food Mashups Is Cool As Hell
Hey, run over to Co.Design to play around with The Great Wheel of Food Mashups, the gorgeous and compulsively futzable interactive infographic screencapped above. The interior of the circle contains...
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Peyton Manning’s 510 Touchdowns, Visualized By Distance And Receiver
Here’s a sleek-looking chart of Peyton Manning’s 510 career touchdowns, put together by data artist Max Einstein at DataLooksDope.com. You’ll want to expand the image or view the full-sized version on...
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