See how SI created an interactive data guide out of Twitter’s biggest sporting moments.Read more…

What is it that makes videos go viral? It is one of the big questions in digital marketing. While there is no single magic formula, we’ve come up with some key insights after tracking the stories behind three recent viral videos.

Our UK Research team looked at popular videos that are all very different in nature. They range from Dove’s Real Beauty campaign to the Ryan Gosling “won’t eat cereal” videos and Commander Hadfield’s ‘Space Oddity’.Read more…

Events cause people to synchronize and act together. Here we look at three different causes of synchrony around the world: natural, routine and cultural.Read more…

How do some of the world’s most famous people follow each other on Twitter?Read more…

See how the @MLB displayed the key Twitter numbers around the #HRDerbyRead more…

Wimbledon is echoed across the world on Twitter. See how the news spread.Read more…

Twitter data means we can see how the chatter about the basketball championship spread on TwitterRead more…

Sometimes a map is not enough. What if instead of just showing roads and boundaries, it was a 3D model you could manipulate and explore?

That is exactly what our data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte (@philogb) did with every geotagged tweet ever recorded, producing this incredible visualization of billions of Tweets.Read more…

Give every Twitter user a brush and they will paint you the world — if they geotag their Tweets.

Those of us on the Visual Insights team are obsessed with the patterns that emerge from aggregated Tweets over time. A continuing curiosity is about the geographical shapes that surface in geotagged Tweets. The images we’re sharing here use all of the geo-tagged Tweets since 2009 — billions of them. (Every dot is a Tweet, and the color is the Tweet count.)Read more…