This timeplot is a visual history of the Supreme Court of the United States from the original six justices in 1789 to the present-day nice-justice Court. It combines biographical information on...

Traditionally, Martian craters are all named after something on Earth - small towns, scientists, or famous artists. In this map I tried to make a strange planet seem familiar by sharing the Earth...

An infographic on California's dry spell that plots data from the Palmer Hydrological Drought Index, a soil-moisture algorithm designed to measure the long-term impact of drought. The graph focuses...

This is a look at a few of the top musical artists in the UK and US. Visualised for each artist is their country of origin, top 25 hits (in either the UK or US), and the country the song peaked...

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...

A day before I was given a brief to present information on a personal habit over a period of a week I started a very bland and uninteresting low carbohydrate diet because I needed to cut down to a...

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...

If there is anything in the world that warrants attention it’s education. How can one really analyze how far has education come if not from a vantage point? Astronomy has long been a human reminder...

This visualization focuses on fictional comic book characters who are adherents of real-world or fictional religions. Also, as an American genre, superheroes comic books closely represent American...

Artwork for Wired UK concerning the use of VPNs in the world

"Nation Master", a website dedicated to collecting statistics published around the world, managed to create an alternative list of things that countries excel in - a list that will not glorify...

To illustrate the destructive power of atomic bombs, this visualisaition analyses the impact the Fat Man bomb would have on modern cities around the world. The radiuses of immediate destruction...

Visualizing population movement between 10 American cities. 

Customers Retention Rate Bubble chart. There are all of the customer cohorts on the x-axis. Light bubbles are the numbers of customers at the beginning of the lifetime period and dark bubbles are...

The digits of Pi are assigned mass and placed uniformly around a circle. The simulation calculates the gravitational forces between all mass pairs and moves the masses accordingly. When masses...

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...

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 map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in...

The work shows the most common color of the Olympic Games symbol (5 rings) present in flags of countries that won at least one medal throughout the history of the Olympics. The countries that...

The artwork shows the periodic table structured according to nation and year of discovery Source: Royal Society of Chemistry

It is a commonly held belief amongst Hong Kongers that the Lunar New Year period is usually the year's coldest time. The graphic is a visualisation of daily average temperatures in Hong Kong to see...

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...

Political Polarization in the U.S. Congress has been a topic of much discussion recently. This visualisation shows polarization of the House of Representatives through time, with a focus on which...

We wanted to create something that captures all the drama, struggles, and highlights of the baseball season. We ended up with something that was part data visualization experiment, part...

It appears that we are witnessing a global health crisis. According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is the greatest single threat to human health in developing nations. Yet this...

In an era of political, social, and economic upheaval in the Arab world, the –Politicians' Salaries and Income Inequality' visual represents a collaboration between the teams behind Visualizing...

Each number capable of factorization (2–101) is factorized to its primes. Each prime factor is represented by a ring of "leaves" around a center point colored with a light-to-dark gradient....

It was the BBC that came up with the format, which pairs celebrities with professional dancers for a televised ballroom dancing competition. The first series began on 15 May 2004. Later that year,...