Any visualization is a Rorschach test with each viewer seeing something different. Although the era of geographic discoveries is long gone, each of us can still become an explorer via automatically...

Water doesn’t respect borders. Globally, 263 lakes and rivers are shared between at least two countries, according to the United Nations. Of the 195 states in the world, 145 have at least one of...

Every year Russia produces 70 million tons of waste, a tenth of which comes from Moscow. Garbage settles in landfills. RBC observed as landfills grew around the capital. 23 landfills around...

This map visualizes a monumental canal that runs from San Francisco to the far reaches of northern Canada carrying hipster goods during the holiday season. The data used to create the map was...

Planet’s goal of imaging the entirety of the Earth every day became achievable with the unprecedented fleet of small satellites, called “doves”. The animation showcases one day in the life of these...

Created using Tableau and Mapbox, this visualisation shows the significant volcanic eruptions over time and the population that could be threatened by a future volcanic explosion, in what is one of...

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...

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has made possible the expansion the mapping to previously unmapped areas, thanks to technological advancements such as Web 2.0 and satellite imagery....

Using Tableau and Mapbox to map 100 years of Platypus sightings in Tasmania. This map highlights where further areas of protection are needed to help protect this wonderful species.

Navigating around town, you're probably aware of road designations: Avenues and Boulevards and Streets and Roads and so on. However, it's hard to get an overall view of the patterns they form as...

I visualized the movement of the buses running in NYC in the morning on February 12, 2019. The bus records are gathered from the MTA website. Each line shows a movement of a bus between one record...

What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface. Human light...

Spectrum is proud to debut the first-ever global map of autism prevalence. The interactive map provides a clear look at the distribution of studies on autism prevalence over time and space. It...

President Trump’s business entanglements continue to leave him with positions, assets, trademarks and other business interests in more than 30 countries. We mapped them out using data from personal...

Since 1976, the Ebola virus has killed nearly 15,000 people. Though most out the epidemic covers large swathes of Sub-Saharan Africa, it has plagued countries the Democratic Republic of Congo and...

Nigeria’s dry season is tinderbox for farming land. If current patterns persist, violence is likely to erupt between farmers and cattle herders. One in search of water, the other in keeping their...

Nowadays, tourists are more aware of rental accommodation options in their selected destinations. Airbnb has seen a phenomenal rise in Europe, and this dataviz highlights a few trends to give an...

XXXY City (Triple X, Y City) is a data visualization project analyzing the difference between women and men in New York City on seven factors – education,  occupation, income, age, sex...

We picked part of the official data published by Beijing Subway on Sina Weibo. There may be limitation of the data. We hope to show more information behind the data through our analysis and...

Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty? The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from...

This interactive globe shows the geology of Earth over the past 750 million years. Users can enter their locations to see where their homes are on the Pangaea supercontinent and other unique...

The Green Party is on the road to success. In the European elections, they got a phenomenal result in Germany. But choosing Green doesn't always mean living ecologically. Less rubbish, more green...

The map associates the prevalence of diabetes in London neighborhoods with the diversity of nutrients of 1.6B grocery purchases. In terms of diabetes prevalence, socio-economic conditions matter...

TomTom is the only independent mapmaker in the world today, and has been making maps for the world’s largest technology companies, car manufacturers, fleet management organizations, city...

This graph illustrates the nine major landforms and five major terrain types in China in the form of an infographic, also showing the formation of each landform and partial area ratio of terrain to...

The western winds and the North-Atlantic ocean current make the European winter a relatively mild one, but this season still comes in many different shapes accross the continent. Explore them all...

A visualizations and animated time-lapse video of the aging buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1800 to 2016. Created by Jeffrey A. Shaffer at DataPlusScience.com. Additional link to YouTube...

Getting a bird’s eye view of them and following the individual paths as they weave through what might resemble spaghetti, some sort of flower or a bow-tie. It’s a beauty that cannot be...

The World is losing its green cover and it is time we act. Our actions have caused such tremendous damage to nature that we may soon reach a point of existential crisis. The Infographic 'The Time...

How has the UK – cradle of the industrial revolution – nearly ended its reliance on coal? Carbon Brief tells this story of unprecedented change in a scrolling graphical narrative that maps every...