A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...
Roughly 2.2 million people are locked up in prison or jail; 7 million are under correctional control, which includes parole and probation; and more than $80 billion is spent on corrections...
Call it taxonomy, classification, even organization — it is what we use to make sense of almost everything around us. We put things in logical, labeled boxes that help us comprehend the world. The...
Some teams seem to always strike gold on draft day, while others just find rocks. (We’re looking at you, Cleveland.) Revisit the past 20 NFL drafts to see how adept every team has been at mining...
After Amelia and Oliver have yet again topped the list of most popular baby names in England and Wales, we look at how other names are faring.
While Mia and Ella were gaining fans, there were...
Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.
More and more people are moving to cities, but don’t want to do without a green environment. Plants not only contribute to the subjective well-being of residents, but also offer tangible benefits –...
How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...
The US government has wasted billions of dollars in Afghanistan, and until now, no one has added it all up. Project after project blundered ahead ignoring history, culture and warnings of...
From Afghan training camps to the Islamic State - this is the comprehensive map for 37 years of terror acts performed by various Islamist groups around the world. We track the story and roots of...
“Plastic Garbage Island” is the first cover story published on Visualeyed.com, it’s an article about marine debris with a focus on plastic garbage. The article is enriched by interaction,...
Choosing a university is an issue that every Russian family finds itself facing at some point. This analysis of the higher education landscape over the past few years might be helpful in making...
Behind the sensational success of "Hamilton" are some of the most densely packed, complex rhyming lyrics in the history of musicals. How exactly do they work?
Since 2008 I create network visualizations to better understand how communities work. In this article I take a look at how verified Twitter users are connected and who they are.
Infographics are the key elements to shed light on the story, thus making Chinese hospital registration issue more clear and understandable to the audience.
Hospital registration procedures has...
Data-driven analysis of the Social Security Administration’s data on American baby names showing that the film franchise has definitely moved the needle on naming trends in the US.
Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible?
This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...
By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.
By analysing a huge amount of data, this project shows a statistical analysis of more than 2 million chess games and throws light onto the most common openings, winning moves and interesting...
To capture the toll of terror, the Los Angeles Times tracked every fatal act of terrorism around the world in April. By the end of the month, terror had struck 180 times and killed 858. The project...
The project investigates the problem of air pollution in modern megapolices.
The main purpose was to tell about the influence of different urban systems on environment, their correlation and role...
Among top-grossing films, which received the absolute worst reviews, relative to the amount of money it made? And where does Batman v Superman fall on this spectrum?
This investigation of scientific p-values is anchored by an interactive graphic where users can give "p-hacking" a try on their own. These are tricky statistical concepts, made accessible to all...
The project is a work of visualization illustrating the living cost of normal residents in Shanghai. We calculated the average price of housing within 1km away from each metro station by collecting...