In the 20th century, more than two million whales were hunted, threatening several species with extinction. This visualization highlights the scale of this exploitation by tracing the catches of...

This visualisation shows the ancient roads of the Roman Empire as illuminated lines. The visualisation is created using the free and open-source R statistical computing language, which makes it...

Meet America's busiest bikes! We sifted bike share data from four cities throughout the USA - Chicago, New York, Washington and Philadelphia. Our goal was to find the busiest bike and map its...

CCUSA provides disaster relief assistance and wanted to create a map to better target mitigation, preparedness, relief, and recovery projects in order to best serve communities that are both at...

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...

As the coal industry is squeezed, the most productive mines employ huge machines and relatively few people.

This visualisation shows the number of captive killer whales still alive in the US today. Amongst the 20 Killer Whales in captivity in the US that are still alive today, all but one are...

An infographic map of the bears in Finland.

This map is an aggregated visualization of FEMA’s National Risk Index (NRI) for 18 natural hazards. One of the key design objectives of this map is to explore how, when faced with a large number...

A route analysis for the Temple area of MIT Institute of Design, Pune

The Earth Overshoot Day is the day, when mankind's demand overstrains the ecosystem's supply of resources and services. This project breaks down the Earth Overshoot Day to continents and countries...

Over the last few hundred years, maps have divided territory into political administrative units (countries, states, etc.). Newer spatial realities, however, are driven by the flow or inhibition of...

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 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...

We picked part of the official data published by Beijing Subway on Sina Weibo. There may be limitation of the data. We hope to show more information behind the data through our analysis and...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, over 300 villages in Germany have been destroyed by coal mining. Residents are forced to sell their land to coal companies. If they refuse, they can be...

41% of the total area of all lakes on Earth is on the North American continent (615 899 square km), whereas only 2% is in Australia. Lakes are key indicators of climate change. They are monitored...

While Canada is well-known for its winters, it is also home to deadly urban heat waves. But where are the areas most affected by extreme heat? And who lives in them? Answering these simple...

Firefighters battled some of the largest fires in California’s history in 2020's fire season. A fleet of specially equipped firefighting aircraft that can steer or contain a fire’s perimeter...

Trading the Fragile: An Insight into the CITES and IUCN databases is a data-driven project aiming to shed light on the work of these two organizations. By highlighting the most traded species...

Hot air balloon model by LowPolyBenjamin from CGTrader. Video: https://youtu.be/4rNZxua2_qE #MapboxGL #MapTiler #ThreeJS #WebGL #3D #maps #buildings #hotair #balloons #fly #nyc #manhattan...

"Dumped" is a data-driven art exhibition concept that delves into the stark reality of Europe's plastic waste and its global impact, unraveling the dynamics of 'waste colonialism' and the...

When a train starts running from one station to the next station, conceptually, these two stations will temporarily be closer to each other. And that is exactly what this visualization shows:...

Four full-page graphics show that no place in the world is safe from the consequences of climate change. Raging Fires devastate huge areas, and even in temperate climate zones, droughts wreck the...

A few years ago, my kids were taking very long showers. I wanted a way to explain to them how important water is and should be used sparingly but in a very simplified way that they could relate,...

Adventure Awaits is an interactive map designed to connect you with America's national parks. Having grown up in California, where stunning parks were just a drive away, and then relocating to New...

Since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs a year ago, Philippine police have taken hundreds of dead bodies to hospital. Why?

A view of Japan's lights at night with satellite F18 in 2013.

I grew up in the dense neighborhoods of South Calcutta, and always felt the gradual decline in the greenery around the city. Most of us Calcuttans have no backyard, and with local parks and open...

This visualization presents a breakdown of Earth's surface composition of water and land. It illustrates that the majority of the Earth's surface is covered by water, with almost all of it being...