Access to safe drinking water is essential for communities around the world. Regions without clean and accessible drinking water face serious economic and social challenges. 10 percent of the...
We wanted to see if we could visualize the so-called ocean garbage patches. We start with data from floating, scientific buoys that NOAA has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35-years,...
IBM Immersive Insights helps users explore data and communicate their findings. It brings the power of Augmented Reality (AR) visualizations to data science tools, improving the user experience,...
The unmistakable rising and falling pitch of air raid sirens, warning of danger and destruction, have sounded every day somewhere in Ukraine since February 24th, 2022. That is the best sentence to...
In many Western countries, there is a significant divide between rural and urban attitudes. Does the same hold true for Germany? To find out, we took a closer look where people live and what...
How much money exists in the world?
Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...
North Korea has made steady progress in expanding its missile programme, developing weapons that can strike across the globe - or hit critical targets closer to home. New records were set for its...
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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...
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 A2 fold-out poster was sent out to around 30,000 general practitioners (family doctors) in the UK, in the GP edition of The BMJ. It shows the UK guidance on cancer referral (produced by NICE)...
In large expanses of the continental United States, spring is arriving earlier than in past years. In this graphic story for The Washington Post we analyzed first-leaf and first-bloom indexes, as...
This deeply researched piece debunks the popular myth of the Northern route becoming a global shipping artery through the Arctic. Detailed shipping, bathymetric and ice coverage data, presented in...
What does 50 years of human migration look like? The ebb and flow of people across borders has long shaped our world. Data from the past 50 years of international migration help us understand why...
Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake are two of the most recent viral phenomena on the Internet, generating thousands of spin-off versions and billions of views. Pulsar TRAC's Content Tracking technology...
Visualisingdata.com is an award-winning site providing readers with a rich variety of content that charts the development of the data visualisation field as well as profiling the professional...
In the 1970s an Australian historian suggested the idea of the 'Barassi Line', a line on the map that divided Australia roughly in two, based on the sport they preferred. On one side of the line...
How do you visualise musical tastes across the world? That was the challenge we faced working on an article analysing five years of music streamed on Spotify.
This project looks at the decline...
Building on ever-expanding bodies of research connecting the creation of art with therapeutic benefits, this project questions how data – like music, dance, and poetry – might be a creative medium...
A lot of research has shown that there’s no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States. But after one such study was reported on jointly by The Marshall Project last year,...
Domestic Data Streamers is a team of developers from Barcelona that have taken on the challenge of transforming raw data into interactive systems and experiences. With a background in new media and...
What is the shape of networks? How do we experience network sculptures? Our goal with this project is to bring networks to life as physical objects, a testimony to their physical reality in spite...
Online censorship consists of the control or the removal of certain contents that are accessible to the public. It exists because some governments and platforms want to regulate content. In...
In 2022, regular Russian shelling has repeatedly caused blackouts in Ukrainian cities.The last three months of the year were the darkest ones for Ukrainians.
We visualized the average number of...
The Strait of Hormuz is the highway for nearly a fifth of the world’s oil. But it’s located in the volatile region of the Middle East. Subsequently tankers using the route have been attacked, most...
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 interactive data visualization shows all of the 5100 Olympic gold medal winners since the 1st Olympic Games of 1896 (and the current Olympic Records). They are ordered by sport, edition,...
You might make little of it as you pass through Avenue Victor Hugo in Paris, Via Garibaldi in Venice, or Strada Xenofon in Bucharest. Yet once you start paying attention to it, you can't stop...