Climate change has had catastrophic effects on California’s forests, but the proposed solutions to protect them have ignored certain voices. This infographic shows how rising temperatures have...
Newly released data shows the true extent of industrial fishing. More than 55 percent of the surface of the world’s oceans is fished, with China accounting for vastly more than any other country.
‘See how global warming has changed the world since your childhood’ sets out to shift people's understanding of climate change from an abstract future problem to something that is deeply personal...
The explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano may be one of the largest recorded in such detail. The blast was visible from space, with images of the massive ash plume going viral...
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 collaboration lead by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, with GenSpace, Weill Cornell Medical College and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, the BK BioReactor is an investigation into the unseen...
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...
My friends REALLY enjoy their fast food. Some even joke about not wanting to visit certain cities because there's not a Taco Bell close enough. I wanted to create this fun viz so that a user can...
When it comes to sand mining, the Singapore government is often closed to scrutiny. As a result, it is often cast as a villain, guzzling sand from its neighbours while it grows bigger through...
This interactive narrative aims to illustrate the contrasting disparities in the lives and opportunities of children in Eastern and Western Europe, using the metaphor of children's books. Not all...
How independent is the German media industry? Who owns the most outlets and publications? This visualisation offers an overview of the entire industrial landscape, with its main actors, its...
Urban trees matter to everyone, but especial children. This visualization looks at the American Forest's Tree Equity Score data set for Los Angeles through the lens of kids and their...
This is a visual analysis of 15699 bike accidents in Hamburg, Germany from 2011 until 2016. Using data visualization it is shown who is responsible for the accidents and what causes them. In...
Monitoring space junk is becoming more complicated as the number of errant items—and their risk of colliding—increases. Meanwhile, the stakes of doing this accurately are only getting higher with...
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...
The Historical Marker Database tracks the location of markers that identify where historical events occurred. Many markers have since been reported, and in some cases confirmed, as missing. This...
A data visualization that presents the global distribution, across continents and countries, of minerals using the periodic table of elements.
There is strong competition among producing...
Interactive visualisation that can be used to view average CO2 emissions of cities worldwide at a glance, as well as to dive into the data for a specific city – both its emissions and trends over...
An immersive motion-sensitive experience showing the disastrous impact of plastic in our oceans.
The Blue Paradox is a powerful and thought-provoking exhibit that raises awareness of the plastic...
‘Inspiring a Movement: The Warming Stripes’ is a visualisation depicting and evaluation how Ed Hawkin’s famous ‘Warming Stripes’ graphic has grown over the last 4 years, becoming a global symbol of...
The visualization work presented here arises from the desire to synthesize and visualize in a single graphic document the multifaceted methodological structure of the Monitoring Program that the...
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...
More frequent and intense extreme heat is one of the major impacts of climate change.
To assess how the incidence of extreme heat has changed over time, Carbon Brief examined which regions...
In large expanses of the continental United States, spring is arriving earlier than in past years. In this graphic story for The Washington Post we analyzed first-leaf and first-bloom indexes, as...