Colin Pinegar visualised his Facebook friends as miniature, colour-coded busts in terms of degree of closeness.

Sea depths

World map of most photographed sightseeing spots using data from Panoramio

Africa is well big

Music sales by format 1980-2010

Breast cancer tumour scanned and turned into object

World map according to levels of press freedom

Where the trees in America are

Stuxnet - a computer virus of unknown origin, possibly the first weapon made of code, used to shut down uranium enrichment facilities in Iran. And it’s open source. Beautiful animation.