We analyse the characters played by every winner of an –actor/actress in a leading role' Oscar since 1928 to work out the parts which most reliably lead to glory. Historic South American criminals,...
Chartable is a blog written by people who work at Datawrapper, a charting tool for journalists.
Together with our readers, we explore how to create better charts and maps: What to consider when...
A collection of animated gifs replaying various sport matches and events.
The "timeline triangles" visualization works with several sport disciplines when teams or individuals win by scoring...
Being an outspoken woman on Twitter is hard. To find out how hard, we gathered a day’s worth of tweets sent to four prominent Indian women — Barkha Dutt, Rana Ayyub, Tavleen Singh, and Madhu...
As a follow-up to last week’s visualization of Old Light and New Light, I wanted to make a single map, of the whole world, comparing NASA’s new 2016 Earth At Night image to the 2012 version. Using...
20 years ago, he played his first professional match. Roger Federer has now won his 20th Grand Slam title. A data analysis of all the matches he has played reveals how he became the best tennis...
Many of us routinely force our bodies to fight sleep. We drink caffeinated beverages by day to stay alert and alcohol to wind down at night. Some of us work all night and sleep in daylight. Others...
Using over half a million articles from The Guardian we show the change in the newspaper’s coverage of women within sections of the paper relating to the creative industries. The gender mix has...
An attempt to visually represent the careers of — almost — all the football players in the last century.
"Legends, One-club men and Journeymen" is a visual essay that is both a guided tour...
“Roads to Rome” is a data visualization project exploring one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility: Do all roads really lead to Rome?
The project resides somewhere between data...
The project uses the Turkey-Syria earthquake of February 2023 as a starting point to present the history of earthquakes and explain the different types of earthquakes.
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....
This all started with a particularly sexy fairy. Our book club was reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable plot, we found a 35-page interlude...
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...
Data from the National UFO Reporting Center, compared against US Census Data and visualised - sightings per capita, sighting time, even trending shapes of UFOs.
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Women in South and Southeast Asia continue to face numerous physical, social and economic challenges in accessing public spaces safely. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the pursuit of leisure...
The IBM Watson News Explorer uses the AlchemyData News API to automatically construct a news information network and present large volumes of news results in an understandable fashion. It uses...
Data Views are self-contained chart experiences that are created closely with Bloomberg View—the opinion section of Bloomberg News. The impetus behind Data View was a hope to provide clear and...
The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...
DayDohViz is a "daily" inspiration project that experiments with physically visualizing data in 3D using a phone and Play-Doh. Yes, Play-Doh.
Creator Amy Cesal's subjects range from...
From his early silent films in the UK to his –golden years' at Paramount, Alfred Hitchcock returned to the same motifs and themes time and time again. Here we analyse some of these trademark...
Without a doubt, Pele was an icon in popular culture around the world. After his death, our team started to collect interesting data about his life, the goal was to describe the 3 most relevant...
The Counted is a project by the Guardian and you; working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their...
The inaugural address contains the first words uttered by a new president. It is an untarnished moment during which the American leader can set the presidential tone, inspire a country, put an...
Viz for Social Good is a social data project run by Chloe Tseng. The mission is to empower mission-driven organizations and increase awareness of social issues through beautiful and informative...
This design is one of my course assignments, according to the computer query some information about the recycling of materials, analyzed and simplified, combined with some illustrations design...
The project is an animation that illustrates a research where scientists have been able to create a very accurate estimate of the total number of trees in the world. This animation illustrates the...