In almost every urban area on every continent around the world, pigeons solemnly blend into the cityscape aesthetic. Usurping sidewalks and parks in their massive unflattering flocks, pigeons are...

Mass killings in the United States are most often carried out with guns, usually handguns, most of them obtained legally. There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and...

This story features an agricultural project from Uganda. A team of scientists joined 358 farmers who sourced the data themselves for this project. In two districts they tested the best bean they...

Government, statistics & data visualisation? What’s going on here then? For years the UK Office for National Statistics releases lacked imagination; yet there was so much potential to inform...

How do you keep track of security situations on thousands of servers world-wide?

This poster was created as a piece of merchandise to accompany the Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology series on YouTube. The poster is a comprehensive and humorous look at human anatomy. The...

To sum up the key character’s journey in an entire movie into a single picture, these maps show all the places where the plot takes place, as well as a joining thread showing the movement...

The analysis of collaboration patterns both between institutions and among countries. Scientific collaborations play an increasingly important role in driving world-leading research. Nature...

Explore your favourite “based on a true story” films scene-by-scene, beat-by-beat and test their veracity on a data level. Obviously watch out – **MEGA SPOILERS**

Last year almost 4 million babies are born in the US. Although thinking of 4 million unique names is pretty difficult, theoretically it is not impossible. Nonetheless, there are always many...

WTF Vizualizations publishes infographics and dataviz that make no sense, together with a Twitter community analysing why.

This visualisation graph below shows the running schedule for 1030 runners who are logging their data with Discovery Vitality in South Africa and have done at least one run over 80 km. Each row...

An analysis of all the games ever played between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

The two large prints (150x75cm) are visualizations of income inequality in Los Angeles and Chicago. They are printed on matte Somerset Velvet paper and mounted on thick wooden boards. The images...

A visualisation of the countries who have won medals in the modern summer Olympics

All layers represent the duties and goals of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in The Netherlands. The bottom layer stands for a sustainable society. It's the foundation of all...

A look at the capital punishment in the state of Texas US.

This interactive data visualization shows all of the 5100 Olympic gold medal winners since the 1st Olympic Games of 1896 (and the current Olympic Records). They are ordered by sport, edition,...

By visualizing data on air travel, tourism, Erasmus student migration, and marriages within Europe, my project (created using D3.js) aims to explore the social connection between European Union...

Where do the roots of humankind lie? A video exploring the earliest origins of our species, taking the viewer on a journey about the biological and social developments that lead from apes to homo...

Our health system is primarily focused on medical information for each patient when in reality, the majority of our health is determined by factors outside that space. The Determinants of Health is...

The authors scanned data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey—which covers 3.5 million households—to find out how people are pairing up.

Since 1954, the Indian government has been conferring its highest honours — from the venerable Padma Shri to the exclusive Bharat Ratna — on bureaucrats, artists, scientists, engineers, sporting...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain activity in seven people while they listened to more than 2 hours of stories from The Moth Radio Hour. This data was used...

The purpose of this project is to represent and explain data quickly and effectively in a visual and interactive way that represents and tells a story about one particular aspect of Johannesburg....

Colorful wandering paths emerge when examining the numbers of well known mathematical constants and irrational numbers like pi, e, the golden ratio, and others. Starting at a single point, a...

The development of antibiotics has added an average of 20 years to our lives. But resistance to antibiotics is rising. This poses a significant risk as common infections may become untreatable....

A year after Donald Trump launched his presidential bid, and against all expectations, the business mogul is the presumptive GOP nominee. Who supported him? How did he take over a Republican...

Virtual reality has the ability to not only mimic real life, but also to transport its users to another world. The term was popularized relatively recently, in 1987 by Jaron Lanier, but the...

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...