A year into the economic war between the U.S. and China, all signs are that the conflict will continue to get worse, with both sides raising tariffs and signalling an unwillingness to...

F1 has always set the standard for roadcars design and performance. As F1 evolved, the FIA (F1 governing body) wanted to reduce the carbon footprint without compromising on the speed of the cars.

A recent Naked Data newsletter pointed me to this article on Wikipedia which gives a list of when the world was predicted to end throughout recorded history. It is a timeline of when the world...

Guitar is often regarded as the main instrument in pop music, rock music, blues, folk songs and Franco. This information chart introduces all the information about the origin, development history,...

The timing of price moves in British markets suggeststh some investors are informed about sensitive, unpublished economic data; a phenomena traders have complained about for years. We visualized 5...

Climate change is affecting many aspects of our world. The impact of climate change is particularly significant for our coastal regions, which will have to deal with rising sea levels as well as...

This visual shows all the stars that we’ve discovered within 20 light years from our Solar system, and the exoplanets belonging to 12 of those stars. When comparing the types of stars, it becomes...

The project “Wall of Silence” reflects on the systemic conditions that allowed for the sexual abuse of 265 young gymnasts at the hands of their physician, Larry Nassar. While media coverage has...

These data visualizations aren't for our community, they're for the non-experts who so often find numbers daunting, disinteresting or just plain dubious. Although they're statistically...

Unhappy in your current locale? Delayed Gratification magazine compiled the definitive meta-list of global indices – ranking everything from press freedom and prosperity to happiness and the gender...

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...

“My Sky” visualized the AQI (Air Quality Index) of 336 China’s cities in 2015, based on the open data of China’s government. Input a city’s name, click on the "Picture" button, you will get a...

Since June 2016, Britain’s position in the EU has remained uncertain due to Brexit. As a consequence of this political uncertainty, Reuters looked at how the British economy has positioned itself...

Water is a bare necessity to us humans, and with the population explosion and rampant industrialization all around the world, we stare down the imminent Day Zero. Water, as we know it, will no...

The photographic darkroom process is the main line and the development of photographic materials is the subordinate line. By using collage, solve the mysteries of photography.

Statistics from the Grand Slam tennis competitions give ammo to no end of data stories. From looking at the success of nations over time; the differences between the men’s and women’s game; to...

This graphic provides a birds-eye view of the US economy, providing context for news stories about loss of jobs in manufacturing or the growth of the financial sector. I focused on showing the...

Each year, college football coaches work tirelessly to recruit top high school prospects for their programs. It’s the most unsung part of their jobs; even as they try to maximize the potential of...

This infographic visualises data regarding women: life expectancy, percentage of the population, and finally, the difference between the percentage of women in parliament in 1990 and 2014 for...

Until the upheaval of 2015, Europe was home to the world’s most open frontiers. But within months, a messy effort to halt a mass flow of migrants fleeing wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan...

A project that visualizes news coverage of murders in Mexico. A Machine Learning algorithm was created and trained to locate, collect, and analyze news stories online. After the data was filtered...

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...

Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness in the world, impairing the vision of around 2.2 million people, of whom 1.2 million are irreversibly blind. It is a health problem in around...

This is a video we release every year to promote a study highlighting the 10 social media trends that will shape the year (and years) ahead. Past years the video was more infographic / motion...

The infographic represents information about Felix Baumgartner and his jump from the stratosphere.

Every year the de Volkskrant newspaper calculates the political influence of 23,000 important non-political individuals in The Netherlands. By doing so the paper identifies a ‘shadow elite’ of...

Alberto Cairo's weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism

The way we speak has an enormous effect on our identities. As part of a series on digital identity, we used a UNESCO dataset and D3.js to create a visual essay about the world's endangered...

A visualization of the number pi represented as a reflective line graph and color coded based on the sequence of the prime numbers. The image is painted on a wall on the busy corner of Grand St and...