A cotton data visualization showing a change in the ranking of cotton lint producers in a decade. Made using threads, needle and a cloth. The red threads denote a decline in the rank and the black...

This project visualizes the boat traffic in Amsterdam's canals, with actual data. It explores the different types of vessels in the water and their speeds, and watch the traffic ebb and flow as the...

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...

This visualisation shows the number of captive killer whales still alive in the US today. Amongst the 20 Killer Whales in captivity in the US that are still alive today, all but one are...

Oil spills are an environmental disaster, with more than 1,700 oil spills occurring between the 20th and 21st centuries, spilling more than 5.7 million tons of oil into the sea.The impact of the...

This interactive visualization uses WebGL in the browser to give a 3D look at all the buildings in Manhattan. Using data provided by the city of New York, the user can filter the buildings by...

​The Sankey-bump chart visualises the global agricultural land use by regions and consequently the increasing impact of us humans reflecting the rising population figures over the last decades and...

When it comes to restaurants, every US city has a unique identity. Austin, TX is renowned for its BBQ. New York City is densely packed with pizza-by-the-slice. San Francisco and LA compete on...

The future is here: text-to-image AI is now a reality, enabling us to create images from simple text descriptions. Technologies like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are rapidly spreading and becoming...

Climagon is a website which allows its visitors to select various datasets (temperature, precipitation, sea ice, sea temperature) and select a location within the range of the dataset. The site...

An immersive motion-sensitive experience showing the disastrous impact of plastic in our oceans. The Blue Paradox is a powerful and thought-provoking exhibit that raises awareness of the plastic...

We are sensorial creatures who inhabit the world surrounded by sensory data (Serres, 2008); also, we experience the world by continually engaging all the senses (Le, 2017). In such a context, we...

Public transit maps occupy a unique place in the mapping world. Unlike most maps, which are designed to satisfy a single purpose, transit maps must strike a careful balance between readability,...

Since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs a year ago, Philippine police have taken hundreds of dead bodies to hospital. Why?

The island of Hawaii (also known as Hawaii's "Big Island") is made of five volcanoes. This map visualizes these volcanoes in a simple, straightforward, and stylized way — the volcanic peak (center...

A visualisation of the birds sighted in north Norfolk nature reserves.

How Europe moves shows labour migration flows within Europe. In 2017 almost 13 million European citizens of working age were living in a European country other than their country of...

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....

Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, described and even explored – but...

Bioregionalism is an attempt to align personal identity with natural regions rather than arbitrary political boundaries. But most bioregionalist mapping still relies on the familiar conventions of...

New York is known to be the city of skyscrapers, but lesser credit is given to meticulous planting of trees alongside this concrete jungle. This infographic utilizes information from NYC Open data,...

The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...

This unique interactive map allows you to explore and compare fields and crops in Europe and the USA. The entrant has supplied multiple files for this work: [1] [2] 

Is it spring yet? New green plant growth is one of the first indicators of spring and the end of cold winter months. To celebrate the changing seasons in the United States, the United States...

As climate change alters habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will animals move to survive? And will human development prevent them from getting there? This map shows the average direction...

The Washington Post’s in-house creative agency WP BrandStudio and Bank of America partnered to produce a year-long series showcasing how responsible growth strategies are helping customers and...

What makes a great city? Is it political stability? Low crime rates? Access to education or healthcare? We took one metric, looking at how easy it is for people to move within cities. We calculated...

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 circular visualizations show the average daily temperatures from 2011 to 2020 for selected major cities around the world. The cities were purposefully selected to represent different seasonal...

Imagine there is a new universal eco-rule: that the right to easily enjoy beach access derives from your plastic waste management. The more plastic you feed the ocean, the farther you walk to the...