In orbit but hardly alone' entails information about the 1.084 satellites that are currently orbiting earth. They are threatened by more than 15.000 pieces of space debris. 'Cleanspace One', the...
Our interactive tool built for the Unesco Institute for Statistics as part of the International Women’s Day and centered on the theme “Equality for women is progress for all” helps visualize the...
The interactive visualization reveals the global evolution of trade agreements from 1948 until 2009. The tool not only displays the increase in the number of agreements and country connections over...
We were curious to see what were some of the common and not so common trees planted in the five boroughs of New York City. While this visualizes trees which we personally love as an essential...
40 Governmental organs (‘agencies’) had the task to implement the policy set by the Dutch Government in 2013. These ‘agencies’ are of great importance, but little is known about their finances and...
The visualization shows how many fatal car accidents occur in each province and district of Piemonte region. One of the most unexpected thing is that, statistically speaking, women are better...
This visualisation shows the distribution of the 10,568,679 items on Wikipedia, sorted by type. It shows that Wikipedia describes 2,424,305 humans, 588,822 Chinese villages, 152,692 albums, and...
After more than 40 years, Studs Terkel’s Working remains one of the best-known non-fiction books ever published. What’s truly remarkable is the fact that this is not a book about wars, politics or...
In celebration of Arbor Day last April, we gave viewers the gift of a bird’s-eye view of the tree canopy in nine different cities. “I love the abstract patterns of cartography, and the idea of...
This graphic-driven gatefold shows the sheer size and complexity of the brain. Researchers at Harvard and MIT provided National Geographic with 3-D models of a mouse brain at incredibly small...
RAW is an open web tool developed at the DensityDesign Research Lab (Politecnico di Milano) to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing d3.js library. Primarily conceived...
The Center for Public Integrity systematically examined the new radical reordering of campaign finance in 2012 state level elections to assess the impact of the Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court...
This is one of four posters in a series, representing Moscow Urban Forum on World Cities Summit 2014 in Singapore. Despite geographical and cultural differences, big cities all over the world...
The Science of Jogging: How To Run Better?' is about the quality and habits of running, analyzed from an exclusively Swiss perspective, and mapping the amounts of runners and their average...
A comprehensive visualization about wealth distribution around the world. While 10% of the world population own about 85% of the global wealth, the poorest 50% get just 1% of it.
The visualization...
A comprehensive guide to a very complicated show. HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones returns to screens Sunday for season 4 to titillate viewers with gratuitous nudity, violence and Peter Dinklage....
Berlins Slogan was created by this mayor Klaus Wowereit: "Poor, but sexy!" But in the last years more and more founders came to Berlin. So many startups settled down in Berlin. This infographic...
The Graphic Continuum is our view of the many different types of visualizations available to us when we encode and present data. We’ve plotted nearly 90 different graphics across five main...
The German government released tables of meetings between government officials and business representatives that took place between 2009 and 2013. They are separated into the banking industry, the...