A comparison between the two sports’ histories skiing and snowboarding.

99 of the things that the Daily Mail thinks cause or cure cancer, using data from a crowd sourced index of Daily Mail articles.

Journey with me... on a stationary bike. Several styles of indoor cycling classes are prevalent today; join me as I guide you through one of my typical classes, which I teach between bouts of...

After the disappearance of Flight 370, readers had a hard time understanding how difficult the search for plane's black box would be. This graphic shows just how challenging the search is.

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...

Displayed on touchscreens and mobiles at HP Discover Las Vegas, HP What Matters uses data visualization to showcase the results of a survey of 3 500 IT executives.

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 ranking of most important companies in the world is calculated by Forbes through an algorithm that takes into account four values: sales, profits, assets and market values. The bars, into the...

In our globalizing world, food is increasingly difficult to track. Knowing where our food comes from is important, since it can carry harmful pathogens. Visualizing data from the World Health...

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...

An animated graphical score of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Audio by Jay Bacal. Animation by Stephen Malinowski

How do creatives – composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers – find the time to produce their opus? Mason Currey investigated the rigid Daily Rituals that hundreds of creatives...

Are you past your prime? To explore this question, we plotted the lives of 177 creative thinkers and the ages at which they each completed one notable work, discovery, or product launch. Our...

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...

Are all selfies taken by young people? Do men take many selfies? Are we all trying to copy celebrities in choosing how we represent ourselves? Are there any significant differences between selfies...

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...

With five different data sets from three different sources we can get a sense of how Manhattan's at work and at home populations change throughout the day to create a breathing city.

After Babylon is a Data Visualization project developed during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano. Each team was assigned a structured dataset in table format about a topic and was...

We commemorate the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, tracking his complete silver screen career.

Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever. I decided...

Visualization that tracks the favorite teams in the World Cup.

Everyone knows that American politics has become more polarised over the past quarter-century. In this motion infographic, the effect is shown visually—with troves of data, statistics and...

The work analyzes tourism in Piedmont, an Italian region, considering the attraction factors of the region and the evolution of tourist flows and accommodations. On the left part of the poster, the...

The world of Game of Thrones represented as a transit map. The map incorporates important roads in the series into the routes.

With the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow at a critical time in Scotland’s history, BBC News decided to preview the Games so viewers could get an insight into the excitement that was to come....

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...

Winter 2013, China suffered large-scale invasion of haze, which is extremely harmful to human health. The project investigated the cause of haze in the Yangtze River Delta region. The visualization...

Following the final drawing of World Cup 2014 participants last December, Bloomberg Sports assigned each national team a distinctive rating. BSports then simulated each match of the tournament over...

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...

Understand Formula 1 better through data. Review all Grand Prix, Drivers, Circuits and Teams from 1950 to now.