Thousands of meteorites have collided with the Earth since 2500 BC. 45,716 have been recorded. Only 1,107 have been seen falling.
BOLIDES is an attempt to visualize and explore the meteorites that...
‘How cities are governed’ is an interactive visualisation which presents the results of the global Urban Governance Survey undertaken by LSE Cities in partnership with UN Habitat and UCLG...
"Histography" is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new...
This interactive visualization supported the Center for Public Integrity's "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine" series, which exposed how eminent doctors and...
Drawing on the same data that powers Google Maps and Google Earth, Project Sunroof uses high-resolution aerial mapping to calculate every roof’s solar energy potential -- and to determine how much...
Listen to Wikipedia is a visualization and sonification of Wikipedia's live recent changes data. The sounds indicate addition to (bells) or subtraction from (strings) a Wikipedia articles, and the...
The interactive chart depicts every goal in all World Cup football games by minute, whether from open play, a penalty or an own goal (including extra time). Filters let one drill down by country,...
I’m the kind of person who binges on real-time charts during election nights, but not this voting season. My interest is waning because of a sense that political divisions have become deeper, less...
In celebration of Arbor Day last April, we gave viewers the gift of a bird’s-eye view of the tree canopy in nine different cities. “I love the abstract patterns of cartography, and the idea of...
Discover how the European Commission is making a difference by reducing the human and environmental costs of air pollution. Six interactive visual segments are woven into a single narrative which...
The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. When the effects of the principle are observed, it is known as the Goldilocks...
This interactive tool lets the user compare different large scale objects to the size of the blue whale to better grasp the scale of this majestic animal. Other visualisations include the whale's...
The interactive visualization reveals the global evolution of trade agreements from 1948 until 2009. The tool not only displays the increase in the number of agreements and country connections over...
Every Noise at Once (everynoise.com) is an algorithmically-generated, audio-annotated, dynamically evolving map of the music genre space. It arrays the 700+ major music genres tracked (so far) by...
The Bloomberg Industry Leaderboard is the data visualization component of Bloomberg's new franchise The Year Ahead. This tool compares 55 global industries and the 600 market leaders within them...
This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1387 genres by The Echo Nest. The...
The Swiss Public Value Atlas compares the public value generated by the top 50 companies. The ranking can be analyzed by 4 dimensions: Fulfillment of tasks, social cohesion, moral and quality of...
The Dalai Lama asked Paul Ekman and Stamen Design to design him an Atlas of Emotions. This online interactive project visualizes what science knows about emotions, emotional states, triggers,...
The Startup Universe displays and explores the relationships between startup companies and their founders and investors (Venture Capitalists) since 1990.
Politicians are elected to serve in the Bundestag for four years. But not everybody is staying until his or her term’s end.
The interactive graphic shows every case since the founding of the...
"In flight" is a live data-driven interactive documentary created by Kiln for the Guardian to mark the centenary of commercial aviation. It combines a cutting-edge real-time interactive map of...
Kindred Britain assembles and visualizes records of nearly 30,000 individuals, mainly (but not exclusively) British. Many of them are extremely well-known in the nation's culture. The database in...
Infographics show median voting scores, representing participants tastes since 1994 till 2013. Outcome flow shows voting statistics, how one country participant voted for another, while income flow...