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...
How are we visualizing topographic data?
This infographic shows the diversity of Switzerland's topography in a 3D south-north transect. The idea of this datavisualisation project was to use recent...
A data-driven portrait of UAE’s milestones, population, and GDP over 50 years.
Data is powerful. When used correctly, it can tell an even more powerful story. Using 379 data points i.e. 50 years...
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...
The aim of this Instagram carousel is to sensibilise people around the theme of threatened species.
Madagascar is the first country with the highest number of threatened species in the world....
It’s easy to forget that wildlife extinctions are all around us. That’s why the Center for Biological Diversity created an immersive, interactive map that highlights an extinct species from all 50...
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...
Liaoning province has six world cultural heritage sites, of which the Manchus occupy four: Qingfu Mausoleum, Shenyang Imperial Palace, Qingzhao Mausoleum and Qingyong Mausoleum. Due to the lack of...
A series of maps showing counties in the US that have more livestock than residents. The main map shows counties that have more cows, pigs, and/or chickens than residents, using a fun Venn diagram...
This website renders every single road within a city. It uses OpenStreetMap public data and allows users to view roads of nearly all cities of the world, and if they so desire export them into SVG...
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...
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...
The scale and destruction from Australia’s 2020 bushfire season were unprecedented, fuelled by a prolonged drought that left the Australia’s east coast tinder dry.
The physical scale of the...
Our noise maps show the levels of exposure to noise in London, Paris and New York. Use your mouse to explore the loudest and quietest spots. We’ve created this to help people learn more about noise...
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...
The “Tokyo Eat Map” is an experimental data visualization in 3D with a “meta” reference to the data it displays.
It represents the density of restaurants in central Tokyo on a map, morphed into...
The map centres on the North Pole with the black circle representing Earth's northern hemisphere. The dark blue represents the minimum extent of sea ice in the Arctic in 1980. The mid blue...
At Wedodata, our job is to tell stories with data. And we are particularly sensitive to those of our world engaged in a singular period, between collapse and reinvention.
So when we saw a new kind...
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...
In New York City, currently around 2 million people commute in and out of the city by car every day; only 1% of these cars are currently electric. Hence, with the goal of achieving an electrified...
Our living areas have been heating up, so has the heritage of the precious species in the rainforest. This series of visualisations tell the story of the countries near the equator, and dive into...
A data visualisation outlining the volume of air pollutants pumped out in Europe through industrial activities (e.g., burning fossil fuels, raising livestock etc.) and their relative scale and...
Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...
The Arctic seascape plays an important role in North American trade and defense; however, in recent years, the Arctic has undergone radical changes, altering current shipping routes and opening up...
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...
NYC honorary street names, or co-names enacted by the City Council, can be found above or below the primary street-name signs throughout the five boroughs of NYC. Over the 30 years enactment of...
Climate change and its impact on the planet is a topic that can NOT be talked about too much.
With this visualization, I wanted to draw attention to climate change through the story of Polar...
I took the gps positions of vehicles from a small route here in Toronto and graphed them as dots progressing around a circle instead of dots on a map. Then I change the radius of the circle to...
Where do the people with the lowest salaries live, and where the people with the highest? Zeit Online shows the development of the past 20 years for all municipalities.