This map shows in a single image the people who lost their lives as they tried to reach European shores from 2005 to 2015. These men, women, and children were fleeing conflict and instability in...

A few weeks ago I set on trying out new WebGL 2.0 features with deck.gl. WebGL 2.0 brings plenty of new goodies to be used for game development, creative coding and data visualization like...

A suite of information graphics detailing North Korea's military ambitions.

Each year, the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network releases the results of a survey of the state of global "happiness." This World Happiness Report ranks 155 countries by...

Who says dinner, and who says supper? Using data from the words and location tags of billions of tweets, reporter Nikhil Sonnad, Things reporter at Quartz tracks the American dialect in these...

"The Stories Behind a Line" is a visual narrative of six asylum seekers' routes from their hometown to Italy. The website wants to tell their stories through the data that shaped their personal...

Han is one of the China local operas, old Chu Han Diao. In May 20, 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In the Chinese drama development history,...

This visualization shows 335 surfing spots on the Italian coastline, flattened, divided by regions and seas that flow through them. Of the 30 best voted spots on magicseaweed.com, we analyzed the...

This project is an exploration of how much swimming has improved since the beginning of the 20th Century. It includes three different visualizations: the first one focuses in the average speeds of...

President Trump’s first real test on the ballot will come 20 months from now, when Republicans face voters at the midterm elections. But those Republicans have decisions to make today about whether...

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...

For the December 2016 print issue, Scientific American asked Accurat Studio to develop a data visualization centered on the research paper “A Cosmic Hunt in the Berber sky: a Phylogenetic...

A visualization of all 711 Triple Plays in MLB history, looking at the frequency of Triple Plays by position and sequence order.

The goal of this project is to use data to allow people to explore an average financial situation under a variety of constraints. We often hear comments by politicians or opinion writers that if...

Our business model enables unprecedented data science, not only in recommendation systems, but also in human computation, resource management, inventory management, algorithmic fashion design and...

Royal & aristocratic families are known for their fondness of marrying within their own clique. This leads to very interesting & entangled family trees which the Royal Constellations visual...

As part of a classroom assignment to visually represent a data set, I took up the challenge of conceptually redesigning the Nutrition Label found on packaged food products, issued by the FDA. The...

The ENTITY MAPPER is an open source web application for visualizing qualitative data as an interactive node-link diagram. By abstracting away the time-consuming process of constructing a...

Life in Clay explores the possibilities of turning data about my life and the lives of my loved ones into functional pottery. My goal is to give our elusive personal data a physical presence by...

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...

IBM Immersive Insights helps users explore data and communicate their findings. It brings the power of Augmented Reality (AR) visualizations to data science tools, improving the user experience,...

Craft beer is so hot right now. You might think our biggest city, New York City, is the best, but not quite. After analyzing over 1,600 breweries, New York comes in 16th out of the 800+ biggest...

Physics can be defined simply as the study of matter and energy. But that simple definition covers an enormous range of topics. There’s the classical physics you learned about in high school: It...

How has the world's health changed in your lifetime? Put yourself at the centre of our Global Health Check.

Scoutpanel is a data-driven tool to easily access all football player and team performances as well as match reports worldwide. The intuitive and touch-optimised interface helps football scouts to...

In the last seven years, Brazilian public funds were used to pay for, on average, two steakhouse dinners every day. Since December of 2009, when all the expenses paid with government-sponsored...

A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between. Humans are socially conditioned to view sex and gender as binary attributes. This visualization helps to...

#tagsandthecity renames subway stations after the Instagram hashtag which is most popular around them. So it draws a picture of how a city is photographed and what is going above each...

Data Futures is a live experiment about the connections between our data and ourselves. It is run in conference settings, with a large, real-time visualization on a projector, two moderators...

When Didi Chuxing merged with Uber China in a $35 billion mega-merger it further complicated the already interconnected world of ride-hailing, tech, and transportation. Business Insider compiled...