We have become the largest producers of data in history. Almost every click online, each swipe on our tablets and each tap on our smartphone produces a data point in a virtual repository. According...
It's an enhancement of Jim Unwin's creation from 2009. He actually added a completely new creature - the Mermahuataur, a mix of Human, Narwhal and Bull. A lot of people took him up on that and...
Progress and Challenges with Achieving Universal Immunization Coverage: 2015 Estimates of Immunization Coverage. A report for the World Health Organization with data visualization from Stamen.
Displaying a cities density (people per square kilometre) by creating city-like typographic expressions of that density. The more crammed and taller the buildings within the boundaries of the type,...
Using the form of infographic design to visualize the abstract concept of memory, this picture explains how memory is transmitted between neurons where synapse plays an important role and shows the...
Commissioned by Future Earth Media Lab and Global Carbon Project to produce an infographic for presentation purposes as well as for highlighting the budget report on social media outlets.
The idea...
For an article in the May issue of Scientific American, Eleanor Lutz—with input from Bradford J. Gemmell, a marine biologist at the University of South Florida—developed a series of...
Cities in Europe – Facts and figures on cities and urban areas
The publication ‘Cities in Europe’ contains 13 infographics that show facts and figures on recent urban developments in the context...
The last star that survives before the universe turns dark will very likely be a red dwarf. This video explains what makes red dwarfs special and why they might be humanity’s last resort for a new...
The double-sided information graphics for the magazine Hochparterre illustrates figures on Swiss preservation of historical monuments: job percentages of specialist departments on cantonal and city...
To illustrate the destructive power of Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombs we analyze the impact the Fat Man bomb would have on modern cities. We indicate the radiuses of destruction of our hypothetical...
As climate change alters habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will animals move to survive? And will human development prevent them from getting there? This map shows the average...
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...
Aircraft is one of the common transportation methods in modern society. Similar to the ground vehicles, aircraft is also subject to various rules of air traffic control, which is the regulation for...
Narration, even fictional, contains a network of interacting characters. Constituting a well defined corpus, the eleven Shakespearean tragedies can easily be compared by visualising how the...
A fun interactive chart which lets you model various outcomes of the election results, selecting how each US state votes to see the impact on the election.
These data visualizations aren't for our community, they're for the non-experts who so often find numbers daunting, disinteresting or just plain dubious. Although they're statistically...
How many times do we hear that "the songs from that artist sound all the same"? How similar are they, really? We applied automatic audio feature extraction and machine learning techniques to...
Wikiverse is galactic reimagining of Wikipedia with up to 250 thousand articles to explore and discover. In this miniverse, articles are turned into stars which naturally cluster by similarity....
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,...
In this visualization you can investigate how the 146 million employed persons in 2014 were divided up between ~550 different occupations. The occupations are grouped and even subgrouped. Each grey...