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...
In schemas for Ulysses, Joyce describes the compositional technique behind the “Sirens” episode as including the “eight regular parts of a fuga per canonem,” later reworded to a “fugue with all...
The interactive chart depicts every goal in all World Cup football games by minute, whether from open play, a penalty or an own goal (including extra time). Filters let one drill down by country,...
This civic technology project visualizes taxi trip data from 2013, showing the activities of a single taxi on a single day. The original data include ~170 Million trips. Of these, 30 cab/days were...
'What makes you tick' is a multimedia, interactive feature to explain how your biological clock affects the body’s natural rhythm and when disturbed can lead to serious consequences. The body clock...
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 visualisation investigates the relative age effect in English football, by examining the dates of birth of every post-war England footballer. Each player is represented by a diagonal line in...
An interactive tool to help you find the right meeting times with people around the world, the World Chat Clock visualizes for the overlay of office and stretch hours between cities. When left...
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...
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...
While it may seem that the Internet is boundless, much of the world is still without an Internet Protocol (IP) address. This two-page visual illustrates, by continent, IP addresses, at the end of...
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 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...
An interactive data visualization of constitutions around the world. The project shows 225 years of new constitutions, amendments and other events, using data from the Comparative Constitutions...
Are global CO2 emissions still rising? asks some clear questions about CO2 emissions and answers them with visualizations based on the data from the annual report on global CO2 emissions by PBL...
In 2012 I published a 6-panel infographic explaining the complexities of the Iranian internet. Today, more than ever, we know that censorship is not just happening in countries with oppressive...
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...
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...