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...
The clock cycles through the color wheel every 12 hours using only colors I like. The clock also changes brightness every hour so that the half-hour mark is the brightest and the hour-mark is the...
'The Beginning and the End' compares the completely abstract notions of the creation of the world, written in Genesis, and the apocalypse, written in Revelation. Each piece of visual data...
Originally published in 1995, one of the most iconic resources in the coffee industry, the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, has been the industry standard for over two decades. In 2016, this...
Climate change is what the world’s population perceives as the top global threat, followed by global economic instability and Isis, according to research conducted by the Pew Research Center
Inspired by the polygon aesthetic of Pasquale D’Silvia's Trianimals & Bryan James’ Species in Pieces, this visualization creates animal images programmatically (in pure code), without...
Graph TV is a visualization tool which graphs tv show ratings by episode. Each season is assigned a different color and linear regressions are calculated for each season as well as for the...
Artwork for Visual Data, the column on "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera".
The visualization shows a sample of nations, divided by geographical areas and analyzed in...
For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, Brendan created a digital portrait for each city, formed from millions of bits of data as people talked and interacted about the biggest events of...
Minimal Maps is an ongoing project that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape. The data is accurate for the year 2014 and explores the...
Flags are arranged by the most common combinations of colors. Colors and combinations are arranged in a spectrum-like order: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue, with black and white at the...
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...
This analysis by University of Oxford researchers of previous outbreaks shows that the death rate has been greater than 33 percent and that there is often more than one cluster of infections,...
This map shows the collaboration networks between researchers in different cities. Apart from its aesthetic qualities, the map is useful to illustrate some interesting collaboration patterns....
Tech blogs. They don't agree on much. Apple Fanboys, Android Fanboys, Playstation Fanboys, Xbox Fanboys… the web is awash with people flaming each other about their choice of technology. If there's...
The Periodic Table of Storytelling provides an entry point into TVTropes. Much like Mendeleev's Periodic Table, this infographic organizes the fundamental building blocks of storytelling into...
Jotun, one of the world's leading decorative paint brands, explores the color selection process by extracting data about consumers color preferences from Pinterest. This data visualization is the...
Every day since Nov. 17, 2014, ProPublica has been testing whether the homepages of international news organizations are accessible to browsers inside China. Of the 18 in our test, 3 are...
A visualization of the ethnicities of the directors and actors of the 1000 highest rated movies on IMDB (February 2016). The idea originated from the debate of #OscarsSoWhite on social media. Thus,...