Little did Horace Walpole imagine, when he gave his book The Castle of Otranto the subtitle A Gothic Story, that he would be transforming a perfectly harmless word (meaning ‘in the style of...

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...

Our methodology, termed as "streetonomics", is a form of computational social science that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of street...

This visualization offers an engaging overview of performance statistics and key facts from the UEFA European Football Championship, focusing on its 2024 edition. It highlights notable players,...

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Melting glaciers make the impacts of global climate change visible. Because ice masses respond very slowly, the melting isn't directly linked to current climate conditions but is a result of...

629,000 girls (aged 0–6 years) are estimated to be missing in India every year. The majority of them are aborted, others are killed, abandoned or neglected to death just because they are girls....

This is a project based on personal data, it is dedicated to my travels over the past ten years. Date art made by hand on paper, in the style of a dreamcatcher, shows the main seasonal and regional...

Brazil has one of the highest cesarean rates worldwide, with over 50% of births by C-section [1], many scheduled before labor begins. Research by the University of São Paulo, led by Professor...

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...

As the Earth warms, stable conditions for winter sports that depend on ice and snow aren’t a guarantee. Steady snow might come later than usual and spring warming means snowpacks are melting...

In the visualization "The Tree of Life", the evolution of life on planet Earth is depicted. A distinctive feature of this visualization is that all images of living beings and plants were generated...

Russia is a vast country spanning through seven time zones and several climates from southern steppes to northern subarctic. And though it’s citizens rarely encounter actual avitaminosis - critical...

The mysterious Red violin, the ellusive sound of the Stradivarius, the supernatural playing habilities of Paganini or the myths around Bach's unearthly Chaconne... No other instrument has caught...

Just like in the UEFA European Championship, the Americas's Cup, or the 2023 Women's World Cup, everything begins long before the event takes place. Pre-Olympic graphics anticipate, months before...

Data on deaths from road accidents in different European countries are encrypted here in the form of an ornate plant motif - to drag the attention to Vision Zero program of the road safety.

A personal and data-driven look at the intersection of technology and health, this visualisation explores the transformative impact of modern medical technology on managing type 1 diabetes. Seen...

An interactive network map about the main political ideologies and their related economic and social doctrines. Each ideology is linked to some specific octrines about economy, socaility, work and...

The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps below show number...

Brazil is formed by 26 states, divided into 5 570 municipalities. The first edition of the Data Book was about the state of Minas Gerais, with 853 municipalities. The data book contains...

The rippling effects of the pandemic included disruptions to the corn-supply chain, which included worker shortages, unpredictable ethanol demand and machinery scarcity. These layers of disruptions...

Often, road names have common suffixes or prefixes. The map illustrates the occurrence of popular road name types encoded by color. The resulting colorful network reveals some interesting...

BBC Howzstat! is a publishing system and new video format for Cricket World Cup match wrap-ups that incorporates automated data graphics and a unified visual style. Due to the need for daily...

The 21st Men’s FIFA World Cup was held in Russia from 14 June to 15 July, 2018. In September 2018, StatsBomb - a leading football analytics company – open sourced an industry-standard dataset...

Between 1973 and 2013, $367 billion of development aid has been distributed worldwide. Who has provided aid, and who has received it? This deceptively simple graphic shows the flows of global...

GraphAlchemist creates humane interfaces for complex data. The Hollywood Graph is a public facing demo for our business intelligence tools that allow users to make decisions based on complex,...

Objektivno was an internationally acclaimed project of Dnevnik, second largest newspaper in Slovenia, exploring journalism that bridged data, code, text and image. It appeared on the back page of...

Rising Sea Levels: When, Where, and Who? By 2100, areas now home to 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line. 200 million. Over the past 15 years, the global mean...

AtF Spark is a font that allows for the combination of text and visual data to show an idea and evidence in one headline. Sparklines are currently available as plugins or javascript elements. By...

Delhi, the capital of India, is a vibrant and diverse metropolis that has a rich cultural heritage. Its culture is a beautiful blend of historic traditions, modern influences, and a melting pot of...