We revealed and illustrated widespread and systemic illegal logging by the Victorian government logging agency, VicForests, as well as the alleged complicity of its regulator, the Office of the...
A mere 1% of the world’s habitable land is human built-up urban area which includes cities, towns, villages, roads and other human infrastructure. While agriculture takes up half of the world’s...
We scraped satellite data showing how the drought impacting Australia’s east coast in 2019-20 was affecting water storage in what was then one of the driest, hottest years on record. In addition,...
In spring of 2021, SAS held their annual conference SAS Global Forum. The conference draws thousands of global attendees to one place for a week of connecting. Participants have a range of...
A data visualization using a dataset from the Open Data BCN portal focused on complaints registered by the Barcelona City Council for five years from 2016 to 2020.
An analysis into the...
What's one of the first things you think of when you think of moving or visiting a new place? If you said climate or weather, you're right! According to the National Centre for Atmospheric Science...
"Spain lives in flats" is an innovative and interactive journalistic project by elDiario.es that analyzes the footprint of more than 12 million buildings to map the height of Spanish cities in 3D...
The oceans are full of rubbish: around ten
million tons of plastic flood the world's oceans every year. Single-use plastic is mass-produced but rarely recycled. The structures for collecting and...
This piece explores nearly 9000 natural disasters that have occurred globally over the last 60 years. Which types of disasters occur most often and which ones take the most lives? Which parts of...
We experience it daily but how can weather patterns be interpreted visually? This visual chart is an illustrated retrospective. It highlights the regular rainfall and fluctuating heat over one...
Decline is a crochet representation of the estimated wild tiger population. The shoulder stripe is a baseline estimate from 1900, and the back stripes is the estimated population at 5 year...
There are over 3000 memorial plaques and commemorative signs in Berlin. They commemorate Nazi Germany, the Berlin Wall and famous personalities of the city's history. Together, they shape Berlin's...
Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...
Climate change and its impact on the planet is a topic that can NOT be talked about too much.
With this visualization, I wanted to draw attention to climate change through the story of Polar...
In New York City, currently around 2 million people commute in and out of the city by car every day; only 1% of these cars are currently electric. Hence, with the goal of achieving an electrified...
The choropleth map shows the mean Euclidian distance to roads for each of the 11.224 municipalities of Germany. The darker the color, the larger the average distance.
The visualization makes use...
In 2020, walkability became an urgent necessity for people living in urban areas, due to the mobility standstill brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. Inspired by the renewed interest in...
This map crosses the natural protected areas in continental Portugal with the species richness, which is the number of species within a defined region, observed in different groups.
The data was...
This data visualization explores the age of buildings in New York City by decade, from the early 1800s until the 2020s.
It uses geospatial data, tracing the blueprints of every building in NYC....
‘See how global warming has changed the world since your childhood’ sets out to shift people's understanding of climate change from an abstract future problem to something that is deeply personal...
Over the past 10 years, more than 160 species of animals have become extinct. It is a slow and steady loss, but the extinction rate is increasing every year, and is bound to grow even...
The war in Ukraine is different: The global public can follow the developments in real-time, unlike in past conflicts. Our interactive map is an attempt to map this new reality of war.
The map...
The map of nesting biogeography is based almost exclusively on nesting data that were provided by members of the
WIDECAST network to create the Atlas of Sea Turtle Nesting Habitat for the Wider...
Our noise maps show the levels of exposure to noise in London, Paris and New York. Use your mouse to explore the loudest and quietest spots. We’ve created this to help people learn more about noise...
How are we visualizing topographic data?
This infographic shows the diversity of Switzerland's topography in a 3D south-north transect. The idea of this datavisualisation project was to use recent...
Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...
The aim of this Instagram carousel is to sensibilise people around the theme of threatened species.
Madagascar is the first country with the highest number of threatened species in the world....
Global Forest of Endangered Plants
This project provides an objective scientific understanding of the proportion of endangered plants in each region/country (Data Source/ IUCN Red List Index May...