We pulled the color of every lightsaber described in “Star Wars” from Wookieepedia. That comes out to 132 unique lightsabers with a known blade color, including the Darksaber. With those 132 unique...

Think you need fast internet speeds to stream Netflix, Amazon or YouTube smoothly? Think again. The Wall Street Journal’s extensive test data shows that typical U.S. households don’t use most of...

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. Published by WSJ @andrewvandam

Every day, millions of people check in on Foursquare. We took a year's worth of check-ins in London, Chicago and Istanbul and plotted them on a map. Each dot represents a single check-in, while the...

Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is...

Humans have been keeping honeybees for thousands of years, yet the insects still manage to surprise us. Lost in the debate over what is causing the death of bees is how intricately complex their...

FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves. As for me, I'm Nathan Yau and I have...

In many Western countries, there is a significant divide between rural and urban attitudes. Does the same hold true for Germany? To find out, we took a closer look where people live and what...

In this dashboard you can find information about all trading operation between TOP-10 European countries by GDP and answer the questions: who was the trade leader in this period, how this position...

This set of experimental information visualisations employs a 'genre-blending' approach (mixing fact with fiction) to communicate the complexity of human interventions in the natural...

30° is a data visualization of marine data in the form of an installation. The measurement data originate from the thirtieth longitude and are printed in chronological order in small typography on...

Making the quantity of all human produced objects feasible which circulate around our planet might be difficult to imagine. So we built a storyline that picks up the subject from different...

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...

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...

Nanjing Purple Mountain National Forest Park is one of the first AAAAA tourist attractions in China, and the first large urban forest park in China to be named a "national forest park". Therefore,...

Athletic sneakers are the creation of marketers rather than podiatrists, and they're undermining the health and performance of everyone from elite athletes to everyday weekend warriors.

How can we measure the impact of the most important scientists on our society? Many factors can be considered: industrial applications, scientific prizes, etc. One of them is the analysis of their...

An interactive data visualization of constitutions around the world. The project shows 225 years of new constitutions, amendments and other events, using data from the Comparative Constitutions...

The project intends to convey and communicate advice on how to live a healthier and balanced life: contact with nature and its cycles, healthy feeding, physical exercise, good rest, practice of art...

In this project, I explored thousands of artists on Spotify to see which was the biggest one-hit wonder, defined by having a single song that made up the vast majority of their streams. I found...

This is a map showing over five years of drought data (285 weeks, combined into a single view) in the United States. The dots are proportionally sized by the amount of time over the past five...

The amount of items that customers return can be a critical KPI for businesses as they are losing profit and revenue with each and every product. Therefore, it is essential to understand in...

A wall chart taking the data for the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil and creating a cohesive solution to present the data in wall chart format. This featured every game that span around the inner...

Designer Krisztina Szűcs visualizes the ‘scary factor’ of one of the most popular fairy tales

"Mapping Dada" is a piece that uses the Wikipedia link structure, combined with a modified version of Google's 'PageRank' equation, to track the movement of Dada through history.

Timescapes is a series of photographs and videos that document the patterns and algorithms that define places. This project uses "slit-scanning," wherein a photo medium is exposed in a single...

The Contracts Portal was developed as a research project for the City of Montreal, as it moves towards greater transparency within its contracting. The city has been actively researching,...

All 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets were run through sentiment analysis to produce word and overall line sentiment (positive, negative, neutral). This was then visualized in large interactive format...

Globally, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed lifestyles, personal habits, and created a deep chasm between “before” and “after.” We were interested in exploring how the pandemic affected people’s...

See how money distorts your government, and what you can do about it. @tonyhschu