Eye of the Stormers is a collaborative project between Bastille and Spotify, as a companion piece to their new album, Wild World. The more times a city streams Bastille's music on Spotify, the...
The birth of the printing press not only revolutionized education and knowledge, it also reshaped the design of letterforms. This opened up a whole industry for printers-scholars, type cutters, and...
A Washington Post-SurveyMonkey poll of more than 74,000 registered voters reveals how the 2016 campaign is playing out in every state, including some unexpected shifts.
“What’s Really Happening” is an informational graphic poster describing a typical female college student lifestyle. The intent is to show the reasons and meanings behind different behavioral...
Diagrams of daily wind and temperatures during one year for the most populated city in each state. Colorful diagrams display five daily measurements for an full year in each city: wind direction,...
All Olympic Games go over budget. In fact, they are the only type of mega-project in the world to do so. These graphs show the total cost of 18 Summer and Winter Olympics held between 1968 and...
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,...
The Haute Route is the pinnacle of amateur stage riding. Set on closed roads over extremely challenging mountainous routes, it also boasts pro-level timing and support.
Galileo's Impact On Modern Science
According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called...
In the aftermath of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, millions were displaced, and once bustling communities became husks of their past selves. While the emptiness of these places is...
Think Game of Thrones is complicated? Try the royal houses of Europe! Starting with Charlemagne, this poster includes the monarchs of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Spain, France, the...
'Some jobs are much more labor intensive and dangerous than others, so it's important to consider what kind of workers’ compensation is available in your state. For this data visualization, we took...
The artwork shows on the left side the refugees who fled from their country of origin from 1980 to 2015, while on the right side the nations that have given asylum to refugees. The nations that...
Most movies make the majority of their profits in the first few weeks after release. A nomination for the Oscars could change this dynamic dramatically, but only for some. The nomination puts...
In this piece we highlight long-held critiques of maps as truthful depictions of the world.
We place our trust in maps as truthful representations: as tools to guide us from A to B. But...
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...
This map uses open source data, curated by the Carter Center and integrated and analyzed in Palantir, to show how the conflict in Syria has evolved over time.
As of autumn 2015 there are 870 Nobel Prize laureates, each one a well known and celebrated individual. But it is a less known fact that every year the Nobel Committee selects several hundred...
Intersections of major roads have been given nicknames like “mixing bowl,” “spaghetti junction,” and “knot”—invoking images of tangled messes, but there's beauty in the chaos. Applying colors...
According to a recent report from the Freedom House, 61% of Internet users live in countries where government criticism is restricted. Though widespread globally, censorship is not evenly...
Colorful wandering paths emerge when examining the numbers of well known mathematical constants and irrational numbers like pi, e, the golden ratio, and others. Starting at a single point, a...