The second part of “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning” series, this installment describes a tradeoff fundamental to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using scroll-linked...

Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute and they are having a devastating effect on the environment. The Reuters Graphics team visualised plastic bottle...

To celebrate Starbucks’ first ever store in Italy, the Starbucks Reserve Roastery Milan in Piazza Cordusio, Accurat designed a massive floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall visual representation of...

Sexual violence in Australia is pervasive but rarely prosecuted, much less punished. Invisible Crime is an attempt to give a count to these crimes, a texture to the experiences of those who survive...

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has made possible the expansion the mapping to previously unmapped areas, thanks to technological advancements such as Web 2.0 and satellite imagery....

Deepfakes — which use machine learning to create fake videos — burst onto the internet in 2017 and were decried as the end of trust, having the potential to bring down democracy, and evidence of...

This infographic comprehensively maps out all the ways of winning in different sports, clustering the world's sports according to what counts as winning (eg, being the fastest, being the most...

The result of a three-month investigation, 3,121 desperate journeys breaks down the real cost of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. The piece aims to tell the story of just one week...

This project used exclusive income and spending data for every school in Australia to show for the first time exactly how big the divide between rich and poor schools has grown. The divide is so...

The aim was to visualise the 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible... no pressure! An epiphany came to visualise God speaking either side of that silence. Data was...

The interactive scientific poster "Explore The Ocean" of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Marine Research explains complex marine science with a multi-touch display right on board the Hapag-Lloyd...

This stunning piece of digital journalism is the result of a successful collaboration between the ABC's Tokyo bureau and the Story Lab team here in Australia. Super Kamiokande is a giant science...

In Australia, the debate about the generational divide is as heated as it ever was, stoked by stereotypical media-baiting — from the Baby Boomers who wrecked the world and stole all the wealth, to...

The Social Credit System is a national reputation system in development by the Chinese Government, which will give to each Chinese citizen a score based on their identity online and their behaviour...

With a large data-art landscape and accompanying charts I show the data on suicide numbers of 2017 from the Netherlands. Elements like trees, waves and clouds represent the categories of suicide...

For our wedding, we created a network graph of the connections between all of our guests and designed individualized data-driven badges that highlighted each guests’ unique relationship to us, the...

This interactive visualization is accessible through a website or at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana the Milanese museum, which conserves Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus. The project opens up new...

To investigate the threat from wildfire to communities across the West, The Arizona Republic and USA TODAY carried out a level of analysis usually reserved for academics and scientists. We analyzed...

What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface. Human light...

When China’s Place Museum announced plans for a branch in Hong Kong the SCMP visited Beijing and Taipei to study the Forbidden City’s architecture, history and how the art collection was split...

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...

Every summer, the gfs.bern research institute is commissioned by Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss public what they are worried about. For decades, unemployment was the unbeaten number one - even...

The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France. Due to the intense nature of the sport, doping has been long associated with the race. While doping in...

China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps that are rising from the desert sands in Xinjiang. A forensic analysis of satellite data covering 39 of these...

This unique interactive map allows you to explore and compare fields and crops in Europe and the USA. The entrant has supplied multiple files for this work: [1] [2] 

Market Cafe Magazine is the world's first magazine about data visualization founded in 2017 by information designers Tiziana Alocci and Piero Zagami. Reading Market Cafe Magazine you will hear...

Flowmap.blue is a free and open source flow map visualization tool. It is designed for representing aggregated numbers of movements between geographic locations. People from different parts of the...

The world’s population is getting older. Japan is on the forefront of this demographic trend that will affect Germany, China and Italy in coming years. This piece explains which countries are...

Plastic waste, mostly from rivers or careless dumping on land, washes into the oceans at an average rate of about nine million tons a year. The visible trash, along with heartbreaking images of its...

Since German reunification, millions of people have left the eastern part of Germany, triggering a demographic crisis. Data now shows exactly what happened – and why there’s cause for hope.