Snow is vital to the environmental health of the western United States. Unlike rainfall, it doesn't come as one burst that's here and then quickly gone. Instead, it tends to accrue over the winter...

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...

Diagonal partnered with Hassell to bring data to their latest research on the benefits and trade-offs of corridor design. We focused on Ecoducto Río de la Piedad, in Mexico City and explored how...

NASA registered 2016 and 2017 as the hottest years in Hong Kong’s history. On August 22, 2017, the mercury soared, measuring record temperatures of 36.6°C, making it the hottest day since 1884....

The daily commutes of more than 130 million Americans have been used to identify commuter-based megaregions in the United States for the first time. The project was published in the academic...

The U.S. and Russia are the world's largest arms exporters. But where are the arms going? This map illustrates the flows U.S. and USSR / Russia arms sales from 1950 through 2017, using publicly...

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.

National Hurricane Center data for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City show development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms. This story...

Created using Tableau and Mapbox, this visualisation shows the significant volcanic eruptions over time and the population that could be threatened by a future volcanic explosion, in what is one of...

70Years of 07 Sister States in an interactive data visualization which tries to portray the changes Northeast India has witnessed across various political, social and economic spheres over the past...

CNN’s Houses of Parliament interactive offers audiences a unique experience: the chance to step inside one of the world’s most iconic buildings in a purpose-built 360 immersive environment. Users...

Dubai is known to be home to several expats who come here to make their livelihoods. While looking at a country's attractiveness and in order to make decisions to move and/or settle in a place, a...

The Great Baoen Temple is located outside the Zhonghua Gate, Qinhuai District, Nanjing City. It is the oldest Buddhist temple in China's history. The glass tower of the Great Baoen Temple is also...

Most of the plastic we consume ends up in the oceans due to poor waste management. Our team created this data visualization titled “The Problem With Plastic” to explore how plastic pollution is...

In the 12 months after the Maine DOT raised speed limits, crashes increased dramatically north of Portland, but the number of crashes in Portland and South Portland – the freeway's most crowded...

TomTom is the only independent mapmaker in the world today, and has been making maps for the world’s largest technology companies, car manufacturers, fleet management organizations, city...

This map was made by overlaying two publicly-available NASA maps showing light from cities at night. One map was recorded in 1992, the other in 2010. By overlaying and tinting them red and blue,...

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...

Sea-level rise poses a global threat to coastal species around the world, as critical habitat is steadily consumed and fragmented by rising waters. This threat is particularly stark in the case of...

Is the pathetic fallacy of a Nightingale singing in Berkeley Square threatened? This visualisation aims to find out.

Our methodology, termed as "streetonomics", is a form of computational social science that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of street...

The Shrinking Lakes cross-border investigation was reported by 12 journalists from the InfoNile network in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda over a year and a half. It contains original data...

The wildfires that raced across California in 2017 caused historic levels of death and destruction. We examined the 2017 California wildfire season, comparing the size of the fires and examining...

The Tunguska event: A blast from the past’ is a special TASS project that takes an in-depth look at a large mysterious explosion that occurred on the morning of June 30, 1908. TASS reconstructed...

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...

Many large cities in China, especially Chongqing, Wuhan and Nanjing, were traditionally known as “furnace cities”, suffer from long-lasing hot weather in summer. In recent years, with the global...

We humans have been making maps of the world since the beginnings of our culture, from the babylonian Imago Mundi to the latest big data based digital maps. Here a new world map is created from...

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...

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...