Weather is a topic that often comes up in casual conversation, and in an international world of many backgrounds, I have been increasingly interested in the weather and length of the day, which is...

Back in the 1970s, activist Jane Jacobs theorized urban vitality and found that there are four conditions required for the promotion of life in cities: diversity of land use, small block sizes,...

The project was done in partnership with Open Development Mekong to draw attention to pressing developments of the region that will ultimately affect the most disadvantaged. It also attempts to...

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...

From Shanghai to Seattle, the world’s cities are built on sand - massive amounts of sand. It’s in the cement and concrete that make the bulk of most buildings. The glass in those buildings’ windows...

This was a data-driven story created in collaboration with Birdlife International and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force. It portrays how the conservation of migratory birds, which travel...

A lot of people move to Dubai, an emirate in United Arab Emirates, to start their own business and live the entrepreneurial life, given the relatively low corporate tax rates as well as the 0% tax...

Goal 11 of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development is to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This project starts with UN Goal 11 and...

Visualizing the most recent earthquakes to have struck the Philippines.

Heavy rainfall and freezing winters – how has the climate changed in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region over the last 40 years? This multi-page data tool was created by Aeon Collective,...

While the world watched on in horror as Australia burned, ABC News Story Lab was working to convey the immense impact of the 2019-20 bushfires. To do this we turned to the only resource capable of...

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...

An exploration into high altitude mountaineering. This project takes two different approaches to visualise data on the highest peaks on earth – one digital, one analogue. Drawing on data from...

Conditions is an interactive visualization that responds to the challenge of making “regulator-speak” engaging and informative to non-expert audiences. Mixing playful interactions and scaffolded...

Earthquakes are one of the most common natural phenomena. Most of them are unnoticed by humans because they have low magnitudes. However, the massive tremblors can be devastating and deadly to...

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...

The Arctic's dwindling sea ice is one of the most visible signs of climate change. In this story, we follow three scientists on a year-long expedition to the Arctic as they try to unravel what is...

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...

With roots stretching back more than 100 years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has proved to be one of the world's most intractable. Through animated maps, we explain how the political boundaries...

This article written and researched by Elena Sanz, portrays the history and current context of the most expensive neighborhood in Madrid (Spain): The Salamanca neighborhood. Together, the editor...

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

This data visualization gallery shows the sunrise and sunset times around the world. See how the night and daylight areas change during a two year period. To focus on the length of nights the y...

A look at the states that our family has visited, both individually and as a family.

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...

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...

A team of data and graphics reporters spent months talking with experts, analyzing and visualizing historical tornado data, and creating detailed explanatory graphics in order to explain a shift in...

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...

I created this for the December 2019 Storytelling with Data Challenge. In this animated visualization, I decided to explore a topic that has sort of "loomed" over me a good chunk of my life. In my...

Often, road names have common suffixes or prefixes. The map illustrates the occurrence of popular road name types encoded by color. The resulting colorful network reveals some interesting...

How much CO2 is emitted by producing wheat versus beef burgers, or by taking a transatlantic flight, or by different countries each year, or by the global shipping industry? The media throws...