Data shows why the volcanic lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record. Reuters used data from a ground-based global lightning detection network to visualize the...
People spend on average a third of their lives sleeping. During this time, a multitude of processes take place inside the body, which people are often not even aware of.
One of the most complex...
A series of visualizations to accompany the conclusions of a report by Unearthed & Public Eye on the sales of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) by the CropLife companies. The main visuals...
The attempt of one brave reporter to eliminate sugar from his diet for two weeks. The visualizations show how well he managed to reduce his total sugar intake by avoiding products with added sugar....
When the world wide web was first released publicly in 1991, it was quickly adopted. As technology advanced and its benefits became clear, many people started integrating the online world into...
This project aims to activate and tune smartphone users’ material intelligence through stories and objects that provoke them to think about their relationship with their devices – and by extension,...
Cosmograph is a novel (and fastest) network graph visualization tool which can draw large networks consisting of up to 1 million nodes and several million edges in real-time. Even on a...
This visualization shows the incredible patterns created by the relative orbital positions of different pairs of planets in our solar system. Each section represents a different pairing and the...
I love watching meteor showers and the magic that comes with them. While searching for more information on when to look at the sky to spot them, I came across a dataviz by Michela Lazzaroni...
For the past two and half years, the world has been overtaken by an unprecedented global pandemic that changed our behaviors, economies, and uprooted our lives. From the start, scientists and...
The network contains R packages that contribute heavy dependencies to their child packages. Node size correspond to the out-degree, i.e., the number of child packages. The link represents the...
We’ve always looked up at the night sky and searched for meaning amongst the stars. Space telescopes provide our clearest view yet, allowing us to observe the universe in new ways – uninterrupted...
In March 1965, Voskhod 2 and its two passengers spun around the Earth for just over a day. A few minutes of that remarkable journey made history. As the spacecraft made one of its 17 orbits,...
The History of Space Exploration is hard to capture in one place, let alone define! Here you can view at a glance the growth of space exploration across countries and time.
Space exploration...
Degrees of Uncertainty is an animated data-driven documentary about climate science, uncertainty, and knowing when to trust the experts. Using cinematic depictions of past and future climate...
Climate change threatens the health of Canadians, and if we don't act quickly and address the root causes that put some people at increased risk, it could get worse over time. In 2021, the Canadian...
In this visualization, health indicators from Mexico's federal database as GDP percentage assigned to public health, public spending on health percentage of total public spending, and per capita...
The beauty and benefit of the scientific process is its iterative nature over time. Each individual discovery fits into a body of work, and firm conclusions develop only after many years and many...