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...

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...

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 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...

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...

My graduate thesis was focused on how urban dataviz can be used to investigate the relationship between people’s perception of phenomena happening in cities, and data collected about them. I chose...

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,...

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...

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...

Follow the Brick Road is an engaging look at the roads of Cincinnati, which ultimately focuses on the brick roads of the historic district, an area that was once rated at the most dangerous...

A digital PR campaign for Together Money. With three in four Brits saying it’s important to support shops on their local high street, but a worrying economic climate leading to national brands...

This map shows the many places mentioned in interviews with Anna Patipa and Jacob Brodman, two Holocaust survivors. You can follow the sequence of places in their accounts by noting the number of...

Winds circulate around the globe, forming patterns of gigantic proportions. These patterns become part of human culture and are reflected in our architecture. By orienting on the direction of...

Visualizing Great Wall is an infographic book demonstrating Great Wall of China through 33 topics. Built hundreds of years ago, the Great Wall is usually considered merely as a tourist...

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...

Nowadays tourists are more aware of the rental available in their selected destinations. All in all, Airbnb has seen a phenomenal rise in Latam and this DataViz highlights a few trends to give an...

An animated flow map showing numbers of commutes in the Netherlands in 2016. Commutes are shown as trains, and locations which attract them are shown as glowing stars. Inspired by the cf. city...

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...

The map and chronology of Chinese history take the map and chronology of Chinese history as the main information chart. We mark the major historical events and times of relevant geographical...

The seas cover 71% of the Earth and are home to the vast majority of living things on the planet. Water temperatures are rising. In a five part series, Reuters looks at the implications of the...

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...

The Minimum Fleet Network model proposes efficient vehicle-trip assignments that reduce the empty time between trips with a passenger onboard. This way, a taxi can serve more passengers in the same...

After an earthquake (or any major disaster for that matter) it can take years to recover. It's been 4 years since the 2015 Nepal earthquake, and a large percentage of the homes have been...

Japanese government publishes approximately 26,000 land values every year. We plotted these values from 1989, the peak of real estate bubble, to 2019, the latest. You can see the latest value or...

Our OS Maps users created over 300,000 public routes across Great Britain in 2018 (covering some 2,950,000 miles…) and we were curious to see where you most (and least) enjoy exploring. The...

Between Nov and Dec 2018, Rickey Gates, ran every San Francisco single street. This viz visualize this adventure

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...

This dashboard on moon missions was created with Tableau based on data from Wikipedia. It includes three visualizations: little white stars (bar chart), representing the number of launches which...

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...

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...