From the 1930s to 1967, the federal government undertook a comprehensive effort to map perceived lending risk in neighborhoods of more than 230 cities across the US. This practice became known as...
Based on Reddit, Data is Beautiful showcases graphs, charts, maps and other forms of data visualization.
DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are...
Climate change has had catastrophic effects on California’s forests, but the proposed solutions to protect them have ignored certain voices. This infographic shows how rising temperatures have...
This interactive visualisation explores Taylor Swift’s discography, analysing 530 songs across 27 albums using data from the Spotify API. Users can filter tracks by audio features such as...
This project was significantly personal to me. Once I move to the US, I noticed first hand the "box" in which immigrants are put on, specifically Latinas. I am originally from Bolivia and I move to...
Thangka is the unique fabric-painting art of Tibet, and few modern people know the origins and production processes of Thangka. I used the form of the temple city to explain the production process...
Celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30-year anniversary with these visualizations that take a closer look into the telescope's long history, created for Physics Today.
The main visual is a...
Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...
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...
Track the number of sectors gaining or losing jobs each month. Boxes are shaded on percentage change from the previous month in each sector's payrolls.
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The Ramadan Data Journal for Kids & Grown-ups is a thoughtfully designed journal that encourages readers to explore their daily routines, time management, and spiritual growth during the holy...
On the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) is setting its sights on returning to the moon, and going far beyond. This interactive...
The Song of Time delves into how individuals spend their time with different groups—friends, partners, parents and family, coworkers, children, and alone—across ages 15 to 85. The visualization...
This interactive globe shows the geology of Earth over the past 750 million years. Users can enter their locations to see where their homes are on the Pangaea supercontinent and other unique...
Subreddits that had "active" users in common between 2015-2016 are linked by a directed edge whose weight is proportional to the fraction of users from one subreddit that were also active in the...
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) research collaboration network illustrates how researchers from various fields come together to pursue complex research projects. Each node in the network...
"Cracks in the Shells" is a data visualization project that explores the connection between the Global Food Security Index and anemia prevalence in pregnant women across both developed and...
For me, this Design Mind Map is like a self-portrait. I sketched seven designers and one innovator who I admire, and then arranged them chronologically. All these designers have influenced me a lot....
This visualization highlights the progress made in prohibiting and preventing torture over the past 40 years since the adoption of the Convention Against Torture by the United Nations in...
Nowadays, the term artificial intelligence is not new to anybody. “Intelligent“ devices and algorithms are everywhere – as digital assistants or chatbots, for example. The notion, that an algorithm...
Getting a bird’s eye view of them and following the individual paths as they weave through what might resemble spaghetti, some sort of flower or a bow-tie. It’s a beauty that cannot be...
Pakistan restricted its airspace after an air strike in late February by the Indian military in northern Pakistan. The disruption forced international airlines to take costly and time-consuming...
We tracked 1000 games of cribbage just for the heck of it, and I turned them into crocheted vines as a backdrop for our wedding, accompanied by a detailed cross-stitched legend.
This project explores the history and ongoing realities of the blood diamond trade in Africa, using tools like QGIS or Mapbox to create an interactive web article.
Diamonds, symbols of love and...
Wait a minute… is this visualization even finished? Well, technically, it only goes up to September 2023. But here’s the thing—that’s not the point. This project is about the creative process:...
The 2024 Shōgun series is a fresh adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 novel, produced by FX Networks. It revisits the complex and dramatic story of the first Englishman to set foot in Japan,...
This civic technology project visualizes taxi trip data from 2013, showing the activities of a single taxi on a single day. The original data include ~170 Million trips. Of these, 30 cab/days were...