Many Americans struggle to understand the scope and impact of humanitarian crises happening outside our borders. This visualization engages the user into the problem and relates the scale of the...

Japan is truly unique, a country where ancient traditions are fused with modern life as if it were the most natural thing in the world. By interacting with this visualisation you will embark on a...

"Pianeta Terra" is a children book published by National Geographic Kids and White Star in Italy, France and Poland. The aim of the book is to provide a innovative narrative of the Earth to the...

What would David Bowie’s music look like through the lens of data visualization? This is what designer Valentina D'Efilippo and researcher Miriam Quick set out to explore in OddityViz – a visual...

A comprehensive travel report on Airbnb - breaking down how it works, and highlighting the facts, figures and culture of the company.

Actors often name their weapon of choice—though it is usually left to armorers.

For me, this Design Mind Map is like a self-portrait. I sketched seven designers and one innovator who I admire, and then arranged them chronologically. All these designers have influenced me a lot....

Istanbul Urban Database is an ongoing digital humanities project, digitizing and visualising the historic urban archives of Istanbul.

The visualisation explores how equal citizens of different countries are treated in terms of travelling.

Can a metaphor with animated weather icons track the economic well-being of the United Kingdom and show the impact of Brexit over time? Here is our attempt at adding a little levity to an important...

Cops are using secret cellphone trackers nationwide to collect cellphone data—especially in poor, black neighborhoods.

A visual history of every manned Apollo flight, charting one of mankind's greatest achievements all the way from Kennedy's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech to Armstrong's 'One Small Step' and...

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...

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...

Last year, The New York Times mapped 50 TV shows’ popularity by zip code. Here are similar maps for Oscar-nominated films in 2017.

Quiz and visualization to help people who are new to programing figure out what language they should start learning. I've seen many friends who want to enter the technology field, but start by...

Inaugurate is an interactive guide to presidential inauguration speeches through the lens of Google Search, built by Jan Willem Tulp of Tulp Interactive in connection with the Google News Lab and...

Click on a country on the map to filter all the coups from 1950. Use the sliders to choose between cold war and post-cold war, or to focus on a specific period.

Scientists refer to the dramatic changes occurring in the arctic as “Arctic amplification.” A small change snowballs, and Arctic conditions become much less Arctic, much more quickly—like compound...

In 2014, I researched the musical origin of the word “shorty.” Turns out that Too $hort was the first to rap it and Lil Jon coined the southern-drawled “shawty.” Shorty wasn’t pervasive,...

What happened in Manchester is a video made the day after the terrorist attack in the Manchester Arena. At times like this, when news develops quickly, the NOS newsroom works at full speed to cover...

A special historical project by Russian news agency TASS dedicated to one of the most dramatic pages in Russia’s past – the Patriotic War of 1812. This program is based on a map outlined by French...

Visualizing polarization in the US Supreme Court from the 1946-2015 terms. Justices are color coded by the party of the appointing President and sorted in order of decreasing perceived conservative...

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...

Everyday, our readers can tell us how they feel, right on our homepage. They can say whether they’re in a good mood or a bad one, and provide more detail by entering a single adjective. The...

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...

State of the environment reporting is a vital process and resource in environmental management. In Australia, the report is prepared every five years by an independent team of expert authors. The...

Temperatures have been slowly rising for a number of years. In the charts below you can see that the late 19th and early 20th century were quite cool relative to the rest of the time period,...

This is the animated story of the rise, and the eventual fall of the self-proclaimed IS caliphate. The video was produced by the largest news organisation in the Netherlands, NOS. It came about...

The platforms of Britain’s main parties offer voters areas of overlap and clear blue water.