Cognitive biases are just tools, useful in the right contexts, harmful in others. They’re the only tools we’ve got, and they’re even pretty good at what they’re meant to do. We might as well get...
With the ‘Cymascope,’ sound can be transformed into an image to visualise the sound of birds like the forest, developing a method for translating the frequency of bird calls into...
Our health system is primarily focused on medical information for each patient when in reality, the majority of our health is determined by factors outside that space. The Determinants of Health is...
The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...
The last star that survives before the universe turns dark will very likely be a red dwarf. This video explains what makes red dwarfs special and why they might be humanity’s last resort for a new...
PayPal was founded in 1998. Over the course of four years, its founders guided the online payments service provider to one of the biggest tech companies in the world, before being acquired by eBay...
The two large prints (150x75cm) are visualizations of income inequality in Los Angeles and Chicago. They are printed on matte Somerset Velvet paper and mounted on thick wooden boards. The images...
Budget cuts can be a little befuddling, which is why for the 2015 Spending Review we wanted to create something that was easily accessible and understandable for everybody – whilst still being...
Musicmap tries to provide the ultimate genealogy of all popular music genres and bundles any information regarding music genres and history in one dynamic map, serving as both an educational tool...
Weather forecasts predict future wind conditions only in the range of weeks. Climate predictions look at big changes over years and decades. However, for energy traders, wind farm managers and...
The Power Players is an interactive browser and data visualisation of the key stories from the Panama Papers leak. It was commissioned from Kiln by the International Consortium of Investigative...
The refugee crisis was all over the news in the last year. This short video explores what impels people to leave their homes, which role the situation in Syria plays for those events and how that...
From 'vehemently oppose' to 'all in': explore the universe of positions on Donald Trump. See which politicians have been sucked into orbit by the gas giant and which ones are resisting the pull.
In a first-of-its-kind review, the newspaper spent a year examining the field contact practices of the nation’s 50 largest police departments, along with some of the top law enforcement agencies in...
More than 100 heads of government and 40,000 other attendees are gathered to craft a global climate deal. It’s challenging work, made more complicated by the slew of alliances among...
A visual comparison of selected (GB, US, Germany, China & Brazil) countries from around the world to highlight how different we are when it comes to our daily routines and washing habits, with...
The Subspotting project captured the cell phone reception for the 4 major carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) along the 660 miles of the New York City Subway. Subspotting is the first...
The Affordability Explorer is an interactive app that maps data about the housing affordability of 584 cities. The main intention is to inform about relation between house price, income and...
This infographic shows bounds and cooperations between several actors involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris and Bruxelles from Daesh.
A map and a chart describe their movements outside and...
Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible?
This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...
When numbers get into the billions or trillions, they start to lose context.
The U.S. national debt is one of those numbers. It currently sits at $19.5 trillion, which is actually such a large...
The election forecast is FiveThirtyEight's signature interactive project. The state of the 2016 general election, both nationally and in ever state, is captured in an extensive series of...