In the middle of Germany is Suhl. From there, the road to Freising is not long - just three hours by car. However, considering the average age of its inhabitants, the distance could not be...
See just how warmer temperatures and less precipitation have drastically altered the water situation in the Golden State since 2011.
Published by the Wall Street Journal
Traditionally, Martian craters are all named after something on Earth - small towns, scientists, or famous artists. In this map I tried to make a strange planet seem familiar by sharing the Earth...
Since 1954, the Indian government has been conferring its highest honours — from the venerable Padma Shri to the exclusive Bharat Ratna — on bureaucrats, artists, scientists, engineers, sporting...
Almost everyone has fond memories of Big Bird, Elmo, and the Cookie Monster. And it turns out that these programs were not only fun to watch, they actually help young children learn. Children under...
Snakes reveal historical trend and highlight present situation. Snake heads (biggest bubbles) show current number while the tails show past. It balances the importance of present and history.
The streamgraph shown on this page represents the evolution of Kantian lexicon throughout his philosophical publications. A hundred of the most important words, of the Kant's philosophical...
Think Game of Thrones is complicated? Try the royal houses of Europe! Starting with Charlemagne, this poster includes the monarchs of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Spain, France, the...
Less than 1% of the people on earth control a staggering 44% of the available wealth.
In fact the top 80 richest people in the world have the same combined wealth as 50% of the World's...
The first massive open online course, or MOOC, launched in September 2008 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Via the web, anyone could attend the class on learning theory, and 2,000 people...
This A2 fold-out poster was sent out to around 30,000 general practitioners (family doctors) in the UK, in the GP edition of The BMJ. It shows the UK guidance on cancer referral (produced by NICE)...
Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura on the production, export and consumption of tea in the world from 2008 to 2013. Source: Fao Food and Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations
360 is an exploration into whether it
is possible to draw a perfect circle freehand. This idea was sparked after reading an article about a 15th Century artist named Giotto, who was able to do...
The visualization returns a map of the thirty countries that receive more aids from the European Union.
The size of the countries on the map are changed in proportion to the funds received....
The Carbon Majors project (www.carbonmajors.org) is the culmination of eight years of combing through publicly available records about fossil fuel extraction from all across the globe and detailed...
The ranking of most important companies in the world is calculated by Forbes through an algorithm that takes into account four values: sales, profits, assets and market values. The bars, into the...
In this piece we highlight long-held critiques of maps as truthful depictions of the world.
We place our trust in maps as truthful representations: as tools to guide us from A to B. But...
–The Better Life Snowflake' uses the data from OECD Better Life Index. This website shows data by either country of category. I wanted to simplify that data even more by using one image. To do this...
If there is anything in the world that warrants attention it’s education. How can one really analyze how far has education come if not from a vantage point? Astronomy has long been a human reminder...
MHA@GW, the online master of health administration offered through the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, created this data visualization to compare...
Comic-book superheroes battle bad guys. But the two main comic publishers fight commercially in even tougher ways. Alongside the release of 2013's summer superhero movies, The Economist produced a...
Through the work of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi I got interested in network science. The idea that there are similarities throughout social, technological and natural networks impressed me. After...
This chart is read left to right, up to down. Each row represents a year in my life (starting at age 15), and is made up of 365 columns representing days. You can navigate through the dates and...
Customers Retention Rate Bubble chart.
There are all of the customer cohorts on the x-axis. Light bubbles are the numbers of customers at the beginning of the lifetime period and dark bubbles are...
This graphic is a visualization of the history of US state boundaries. It gives an overview of current and past state boundaries throughout the country's entire history, combining time and space in...
This plot empirically teases out subtle differences between the words "geek" and "nerd". Two axes represent the words in different dimensions, and plot other English words according to their...