In the summer of 2022, the water levels in the Yangtze, China’s largest river, hit a record low due to low rainfall in the river basin, reduced water flowing in from its upper reaches, and hotter...
As climate change alters habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will animals move to survive? And will human development prevent them from getting there?
This map shows the average direction...
What if you could visually compare any property's assessment value against all others in a city with a click? What interesting patterns could you find?
Starting with those questions, the project...
Globally, climate change claims 150,000 lives per year. Gramener partnered with Evergreen under the Microsoft AI for Earth grant to curb climate change impact with a predictive urban planning tool....
Every year Russia produces 70 million tons of waste, a tenth of which comes from Moscow. Garbage settles in landfills. RBC observed as landfills grew around the capital.
23 landfills around...
A multi-angle analysis of the 2022 UK housing market, which breaks the (positively-skewed) dataset into quartile groups based on house price with a top outliers group for the stately homes and...
The choropleth map shows the mean Euclidian distance to roads for each of the 11.224 municipalities of Germany. The darker the color, the larger the average distance.
The visualization makes use...
This website is the virtual counterpart to the book ‘Parliament’. The book explores the double-sided relationship between space and politics by documenting and comparing the plenary halls of the...
At the heart of climate change lies the increasing amount of fossil fuel emissions and the consequent increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Since the beginning of the industrial...
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 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...
What are satellites used for, who owns them and where do they orbit the Earth? Satellite Explorer is a web application that answers these questions by providing a visualization of the active...
The future is here: text-to-image AI is now a reality, enabling us to create images from simple text descriptions. Technologies like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are rapidly spreading and becoming...
As a follow-up to last week’s visualization of Old Light and New Light, I wanted to make a single map, of the whole world, comparing NASA’s new 2016 Earth At Night image to the 2012 version. Using...
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...
The 2016 count of the homeless population, taken in January, revealed that our county has more than 43,000 people living on the street or in shelters. (Long Beach, Glendale and Pasadena were not...
They are the foundation of life on Earth, providing food, medicine, building materials and clean air but across the world, plant species are disappearing fast.
The world contains around 423,000...
“Flights to Rome” is a data visualization art project showing the entire global mobility network of flight and road infrastructure in a single image. It visualises for the very first time literally...
Treepedia measures the canopy cover in cities. Rather than count the individual number of trees, we’ve developed a scaleable and universally applicable method by analyzing the amount of green...
Marco Polo came across countless stories which he depicted in his book, during his adventure. This is a humble attempt to recreate and narrate the Polos' grand journey around the world, using...
Numerous statistics show Bucharest is one of the most polluted cities in the European Union. In addition, it ranks second in terms of the social costs of pollution, including premature death. To...
Historically, the city of Los Angeles favored low-density development. As a result, 75% of L.A. residential space is zoned for single family homes. (R1 Parcels) Low density housing paired with...
Any visualization is a Rorschach test with each viewer seeing something different. Although the era of geographic discoveries is long gone, each of us can still become an explorer via automatically...
When 2020 Census data was released, FiveThirtyEight visual journalists Ryan Best and Elena Mejía used the new data to explore the extent of which racial segregation caused by redlining was still...