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...

Streets and squares are an archive of both language and history. We discovered some fascinating patterns in the distribution of the 450,000 street names in Germany. They tell the story of almost...

This graph illustrates the nine major landforms and five major terrain types in China in the form of an infographic, also showing the formation of each landform and partial area ratio of terrain to...

Our OS Maps users created over 300,000 public routes across Great Britain in 2018 (covering some 2,950,000 miles…) and we were curious to see where you most (and least) enjoy exploring. The...

This bilingual atlas provides for the first time a comprehensive, easily accessible and detailed overview of all Arab-Palestinian communities in Israel. All maps were specifically designed for this...

An interactive Tableau visualization of direct flights to campgrounds in the continental United States from various U.S. airports.

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...

The series of posters was created for the Consumer Data Research Centre in Leeds. The focus was on advertising the centre's efforts in data visualisation through a series of giveaway posters. A...

Visualizing over 2.5 million 311 noise complaints in NYC from January 2010 and March 2018. Visualizations use custom vector layers from Mapbox GL and are visualized in Tableau Desktop.

Today’s cities are finding it hard to be both livable and economically strong. Not one has truly balanced people, profit, and the planet, according to a new report on an index that ranks cities by...

This was a student project, where the assignment was to create a map or other spatial visualization while using best practices for easy cognition and perception. I decided to create a map of...

CityWays is research at MIT Senseable City Lab to reveal human’s recreational patterns through visualizing datasets from self-tracking applications and environmental factors. In the CityWays web...

As a geography student I love making maps, and after Obama's last state of the union address I became interested in gerrymandering. So of course I made maps! I hope they can help others become...

The Apostle Paul and his companions crossed the Roman Empire to spread the Gospel and build the early church. This map overlays their journeys onto an interactive view of Roman provinces,...

This work is the first visual atlas that offers a wide overview about the phenomena included under the notion of water grabbing. Stealing, limiting, disrupting or interfering local communities...

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...

We are living in the anthropocene—an epoch characterized by humankind's profound impact on the planet. This poster presents seven geographic views of human activity and influence: it highlights...

This map visualizes a monumental canal that runs from San Francisco to the far reaches of northern Canada carrying hipster goods during the holiday season. The data used to create the map was...

Due to the rainy season and the geography of Marikina City, it was considered to be one of the most devastated areas during Typhoon Ketsana back in September 2009. We created a data story on the...

“How Faster Trains Draw China’s Cities Ever Closer” is a visual-dominated piece reviewing the changes of time-distances between China’s cities. China’s rapid development of high-speed railways...

This visualization is a modified version of Chernoff Faces, a technique that maps multiple statistical values to the features of a face. Because it's 2017, we expanded on the technique and made...

The average person on earth would live 2.6 years longer if the air contained none of the deadliest type of pollution. Your number depends on where you live. The entrant has supplied multiple...

The Global Map of Accessibility is an interactive map that lets you view the travel time between almost any point on Earth and the nearest population centre of 50,000 or more people. The data...

Who are the key climate change influencers on Twitter? To find out, Carbon Brief and Right Relevance embarked on a year-long collaboration to collect and analyse 13 million climate-related tweets...

Cape Town's mobility infrastructure is based on two major services: public bus lines and informal shared mini taxis. Together, they form a network of over 800 lines throughout Cape Town. »City in...

This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size. The generation method is rather arbitrary, the goal is to produce a nice looking map, not an accurate model of a city....

Navigating around town, you're probably aware of road designations: Avenues and Boulevards and Streets and Roads and so on. However, it's hard to get an overall view of the patterns they form as...

This map of Africa tells you the translations of place names.

For a magazine of the «Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft Zürich» we visualized how energy consumption of 53 co-operative housing areas has changed between 2014 and 2017. The visualization provides...

Gerrymandering is having a moment. A number of cases concerning the fairness of district maps have been heard in both state and federal court over the past year. But although district boundaries...