Almost 100 years after Carter G Woodson had the idea of Black History Month, Mona Chalabi examines the geography of black America.

Overview of the most interesting and disputed borders of the World. Infographic designed for the Sunday supplement of La Repubblica newspaper.

This map of Africa tells you the translations of place names.

In an era of rapidly changing cities and demographics, The Post wanted to measure the changes in race and ethnicity since the 1990s. To explore these national changes, we analyzed census data...

On Jan. 14, the Iranian tanker Sanchi sank in the worst oil shipping disaster in decades, killing all 32 crew onboard. Water contaminated by the cargo of toxic condensate oil and the ship’s fuel...

View historic mapping within a spyglass circle.

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...

Investors - from billion-dollar Wall Street funds to mom-and-pop flippers - are snapping up thousands of properties flooded by Hurricane Harvey.

Visualise the sun's position through the seasons and see the sunlight’s effect on your surroundings in augmented reality. With the 'Hello, Sun.' app you’ll never be left wondering where the sun is...

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...

This project visualizes city street network orientation, configuration, and entropy using OpenStreetMap data and the Python-based OSMnx package. Each of these cities is represented by a polar...

America's neighborhoods are highly segregated, and we often assign children to schools based on that underlying geography. But many of America's school districts actually draw school zones to make...

Tornado migrations can be mapped like birds or wildebeests or commuters. Like just about everything else on this amazing planet of ours, they have a seasonal circuit and an ebb and flow.

Using conflict data provided by ACLED and a gridded world population estimate compiled by CIESIN, "Most Dangerous Places" shows the number of fatalities per person in Africa and Asia, compared to...

This visualisation started as a personal interest in the Lost Property Office transparency data and was then proposed to and published by the Italian newspaper La Lettura. The artwork visualises...

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...

Visualizing over 2.5 million 311 noise complaints in NYC from January 2010 and March 2018. Visualizations use custom vector layers from Mapbox GL and are visualized in Tableau Desktop.

For the past few months, I have spent much of my spare time trying to delve into the mindset of a dog whilst out on their walks. Where do they go on their adventures? How far do they deviate from...

In Copenhagen - one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world - 50% of all citizens commute by bike daily. This poster illustrates the bicycle counts in 2014 on four different streets in...

The project of a fantasy subway in Rome meeting the main famous buildings and monuments in more than 2700 years of history. They are 8 tematic lines about historic periods: (L1) Ancient Roman...

Using the 2012 Agricultural Census data, we sought to answer three related questions about U.S. Farm Size: 1. Do small farms really have greater crop diversity? 2. Do government payments...

How far can you drive in one hour in different European capitals? This visualization attempts to answer that question.  

We are living in the anthropocene—an epoch characterized by humankind's profound impact on the planet. This poster presents seven geographic views of human activity and influence: it highlights...

This map, created using the U.S. Department of Defense's THOR dataset, shows every recorded bombing mission of the Vietnam War. Each mission is plotted as a single semi-transparent point....

“How Faster Trains Draw China’s Cities Ever Closer” is a visual-dominated piece reviewing the changes of time-distances between China’s cities. China’s rapid development of high-speed railways...

Streets and squares are an archive of both language and history. We discovered some fascinating patterns in the distribution of the 450,000 street names in Germany. They tell the story of almost...

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.

How do Americans use their land? Bloomberg’s exploration uses a series of unique 8,000-pixel maps in a distinctive, scrolling web experience. A mash-up of the latest data from the U.S....

Visualization of traffic flow from around the Greater Montreal Area. Time-stamped commuter GPS trajectories are visualized from 3 transit modalities: cars, public transit, and bikes. 1 month's...