The refugee crisis was all over the news in the last year. This short video explores what impels people to leave their homes, which role the situation in Syria plays for those events and how that...
I’m the kind of person who binges on real-time charts during election nights, but not this voting season. My interest is waning because of a sense that political divisions have become deeper, less...
Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura about the Roman emperors (from Augustus to the last of the Western Roman Empire) , their causes of death and their years in power
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The project aims to raise awareness about the growing number of war victims in a continent too often forgotten. Data on armed conflicts in Africa since 1900 have been collected and made available...
A look at the history of Batman & Superman in the context of the changes in American culture, politics and economics over the last century. The aim was to try and understand how these...
Progress and Challenges with Achieving Universal Immunization Coverage: 2015 Estimates of Immunization Coverage. A report for the World Health Organization with data visualization from Stamen.
QS Best Student Cities is an annual index assessing cities in five key categories: university rankings, student mix, desirability, employer activity and affordability. This infographic reports the...
From 1973 to 2015, my grandfather notes down all his bicycle rides in a diary. My aim is to give an overview of and insight in the biking history of my grandfather and the places he visited. The...
In almost every urban area on every continent around the world, pigeons solemnly blend into the cityscape aesthetic. Usurping sidewalks and parks in their massive unflattering flocks, pigeons are...
Olympians are young, supremely healthy people who’ve been training with the intensity of combat troops for years. Suddenly they’re released into a cocoon where prying reporters and overprotective...
A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...
Ghost Waste is an interactive installation to attract and to make people familiarize with the problems of ecomafia in an easy way. The observer can thus ‘physically touch’ the problem, activating...
We have mapped the “ethnicity” of 2,958 nominees in the 6 major award categories at the Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best...
Behind the sensational success of "Hamilton" are some of the most densely packed, complex rhyming lyrics in the history of musicals. How exactly do they work?
The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...
Kaledata is an Italian hand drawn infographic news blog. Articles are published twice a month on average and focus on worldwide news and current events. Kaledata is in Italian but has an English...
To capture the toll of terror, the Los Angeles Times tracked every fatal act of terrorism around the world in April. By the end of the month, terror had struck 180 times and killed 858. The project...
The Dalai Lama asked Paul Ekman and Stamen Design to design him an Atlas of Emotions. This online interactive project visualizes what science knows about emotions, emotional states, triggers,...
A year after Donald Trump launched his presidential bid, and against all expectations, the business mogul is the presumptive GOP nominee. Who supported him? How did he take over a Republican...
As the fortunes of the 2016 US presidential candidates rise and fall throughout the campaign, so does the amount of conversation about them on Twitter. Below is an interactive graphic that allows...
Timescapes is a series of photographs and videos that document the patterns and algorithms that define places. This project uses "slit-scanning," wherein a photo medium is exposed in a single...
Vaccination schedules are a live political issue in the USA. We wanted a neutral entry point into this debate, so we produced this interactive, which allows our readers to compare the schedules in...