This piece explores recent and alarming data showing this year’s record-breaking extreme heat in Southeast Asia. April and May are typically the hottest months of the year there, as temperatures...

Al Jazeera together with the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews group developed this open source video player which can be used on any website to match video content with a word-aligned transcript. The HTML5 ...

From First Spark to the Personal Computer From Michael Faraday to Steve Jobs, innovators have improved upon the work of those before them—in both direct and indirect ways—to push human progress...

After having discovered that his steps were being monitored by a smartphone, he decided to take advantage of all unused collected data. Believing in the value of simplicity and following the...

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...

The nature of time remains a subject of debate among humans (Rovelli, 2019). In the 1970s, experiments (Hafele and Keating, 1972) first proved Einstein's depiction of time in his theory of general...

Among top-grossing films, which received the absolute worst reviews, relative to the amount of money it made? And where does Batman v Superman fall on this spectrum?

This visualization explores famous myths and legends from across the British Isles, tracking their origins back to towns and cities and ranking the mythical creatures based on their characteristics.

How Humans Are Causing Climate Change “The primary driver of global warming is the human emission of greenhouse gases,” says Dr Noah Diffenbaugh, Professor of Earth Systems Science at Stanford...

This project visualizes Boston’s olfactory landscape, transforming scent into a dynamic, data-driven map. Inspired by Kate McLean’s pioneering work on sensory maps and exformation—the intentional...

A landscape of the phylogeny and anatomy of all major insect families, taken from handwritten notes on entomology.

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...

Explore the Global Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Tax Database, a collaborative project between Data Whale LLC and the World Bank Group. This data visualization project offers a comprehensive view...

This data visualization captured the spread of fatalities and injuries sustained during mass shootings in the US. This database from Mother Jones initially covered mass shooting cases from 1982 to...

For many of us (these co-authors included), the release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in March 2020 provided a welcome escape from the early months of COVID-19. You could spend your days in...

Does size matter? I built a data visualization that focuses on small countries. The visualization shows the six World Governance Indicators, the ranking on the Human Development Index, the number...

Social Media Development (Worldwide/China) The way people access information is changing at a rapid pace of technology development, with social media gradually replacing traditional media...

Gender inequality persists in the Pacific islands, where women work less, earn slightly less, and have fewer managerial roles than men. This visual essay explores these disparities, despite...

Color research in movies. We held a survey concerning colors presented in several films by means of calculating the amount of one or another color shade appearing during the whole movie. That's how...

This project is called Unsub Extender, a free Python-based web application to analyze Unsub data. Unsub is a collection analysis tool that many academic libraries use to analyze their journal...

India has around half a billion women, but less than 15% representation in parliament! I wanted to explore this trend through the ages. Although the representation has been growing, it's nowhere...

We humans are too easily fixated on extremes, we count and compare and put things in order. The pinnacles of land are mountains, and they are always ranked by the elevation of their summits above...

Every summer, typhoons rage in the southeast coast of China, causing great losses to the coastal people. We visualized the tracks of all the 1832 typhoons since 1949, and unfolded the story around...

What if we could wear data? What if we could feel it? You are invited to embody data through fashion and wearable technology! Five corsets on display are available to try on. Each “corset”...

Carbon Visuals has created a four-minute film to help world leaders, industry experts, campaigners, scientists and the wider public understand the scale of emissions from fossil fuels. In...

I created this piece for the Data Is Plural challenge, which invited us to visualize data about Bob Ross, an artist that painted an oil painting on each episode of his TV show, The Joy of Painting....

A new survey from Pew Research Centre shows sharp drops in global approval ratings for America since the election of Donald Trump.

For the FRONT exhibition dedicated to war photojournalists Larisa Kalik and Vadim Ghirda, our contribution was to present the timeline of their career path but we also aimed to provide context and...

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...