The Mercator projection map tends to be what most of us think of when pondering the world map. However, it has a major flaw, since it drastically distorts the size of objects approaching the poles....

The design work for this book, its maps and graphics, was commissioned by Instituto Socioambiental. The book is the product of a partnership between RAISG (Amazonian Network of Georeferenced...

Data on early slavery in the American north is easily available at the county level, but the most important patterns only emerge by going back to the original 1790 publications and plotting it town...

The way that people invest money has a big impact on how the world evolves. So far, making a financial profit has been the key incentive for the majority of investors. But with the increasing...

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 this series of maps, Reuters traces the course of the Rohingya crisis, from the spasm of violence a year ago through to the daily lives of the refugees in teeming camps.

This visualisation focuses on Africa, to highlight a positive light on the continents and showcases champions of renewable energy.

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...

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....

A Voronoi diagram visualisation of air quality in Bristol, England.

It's not a hoax, a myth, or a conspiracy among scienctists. As we argue about the path we take, let's recall the facts that compel the journey.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes hourly Air Quality readings at hundreds of sites nationwide, and produces an Air Quality Index (AQI) that measures how healthy the air is at...

Peak Spotting combines machine learning and visual analytics to help manage passenger loads within Germany’s vast railway network. The project provides yield and capacity managers with rich...

Most of the plastic we consume ends up in the oceans due to poor waste management. Our team created this data visualization titled “The Problem With Plastic” to explore how plastic pollution is...

>> Seeing, researching and comprehending << The phenomenon of the sun has fascinated mankind time and again, influencing their lives for over thousands of years. But how can the...

Haze, that is, smog caused by pollution, has become an inevitable part of life in many Chinese cities. Urban pollution has quietly increased, and it affects the health and lives of many city...

This radial visualization highlights some of the increasingly extreme weather conditions occurring in Portland, OR. In particular, the winter of 2016 brought some treacherously icy conditions and...

This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size. The generation method is rather arbitrary, the goal is to produce a nice looking map, not an accurate model of a city....

How Hong Kong has changed since handover from music to politics, fashion to infrastructure, these graphics explore the evolution of Hong Kong on the 20th anniversary of the city’s handover from...

An interactive map of Moscow in which you can explore the different periods and styles of architecture. In this work I wanted to share the architectural variety of Moscow, demonstrating through...

Soil data is sampled at point locations (e.g. machine drill, excavation). For each location numerous attributes are recorded and often samples taken that are analyzed for a multitude of properties...

Population ageing is a major demographic challenge for humanity. Since population structures evolve slowly and predictably, the demographic, economic, environmental, and social problems of ageing...

The most famous train ever, a legend, an epic journey surrounded by a shade of mistery, glamour and the charm of the past golden times. How well do you know the Orient Express, its lines and the...

Wovoka is the transparency and insights layer to the voluntary carbon offsets market. Our platform ingests project-level information from the 4 major offset registries in real time, merges it with...

Apart from waypoints and natural jet streams, there are many man-made constraints such as political, legal and financial restrictions on airspace. Countries use airspace to collect fees or leverage...

Global climate change is here. Each year, countries met for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to discuss ways to adapt to the current climate reality while mitigating climate change. In November...

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...

The best places in Italy that every foodie has to visit and why, with a unique gastronomic journey.

Drawdown is the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. This is the point when we begin the process of stopping further...