The physical charts are an attempt to make data and data visualisations legible to ordinary people in their daily lives. In response to the increasing sophistication of data visualisations and the...

When you're hanging out at the beach and you gaze off into the horizon, do you know what is across the ocean from you? http://http://caiweiyi.com/

Our noise maps show the levels of exposure to noise in London, Paris and New York. Use your mouse to explore the loudest and quietest spots. We’ve created this to help people learn more about noise...

How is the world’s energy and electricity generated? What is the world’s largest power station? How does solar power compare to wind energy, geothermal energy or hydropower? How much of the world’s...

The days when Leeds city centre's air would be so dense with smoke, grit and danger that the streets had to be evacuated are now, mostly, a memory, but not entirely behind us. As recently as March...

"Hidden Incidents of Pet Food: Melamine adulteration" is a digital booklet offering research on melamine adulteration, a long-lasting issue in food products posing significant health risks,...

My son was born during the pandemic. We spent a lot of time visiting parks and being outside in nature. In the past year he's gained a huge appreciation for the environment and he loves to gather...

Each row of this cross stitch represents the average temperature for that year. It starts from 1880 (top row) to 2017 (bottom row). White is the average temperatures of the years 1900 to 2000. The...

"For centuries, atlases depicted what people could see: roads, rivers, mountains. Today, we need graphics to reveal the invisible patterns that shape our lives. Atlas of the Invisible is an ode to...

The theme is delicate and the work speaks for itself. Small details that make all the difference when we transmit information. take a deep breath and take a look at this breathtaking data...

In February we released a project Our World in Data had been working on: SDG-Tracker.org, the first (and only, to date) resource where you can track our progress towards the United Nations...

This series of posters visualizes what parts of the piano keyboard are played the most in well-known classical music pieces such as Fur Elise, 'Moonlight' Sonata, Clair de Lune and the Minute...

Data visualization chart displays an overview of global geothermal heat consumption in households in between the year 1999 to 2015. The source of data is from the energy statistics database from...

Drawing on 10,000 videos from the internet, Network Effect explores the psychological impact of Internet use on humanity. The project contains 10,000 video clips, 10,000 spoken sentences, news,...

Displaying a cities density (people per square kilometre) by creating city-like typographic expressions of that density. The more crammed and taller the buildings within the boundaries of the type,...

This project aimed to delve into and comprehend the systems of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Through the categorization of individuals based on the MBTI and real-life comparisons, it was...

An infographic map of the bears in Finland.

Think Game of Thrones is complicated? Try the royal houses of Europe! Starting with Charlemagne, this poster includes the monarchs of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Spain, France, the...

We compare land prices in different cities to find out what kind of home you could buy (and, above all, what size) after collecting the prize from the Christmas Special Draw and paying the...

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...

Remember all 1,352 shots the Chicago Blackhwks used to win the Stanley Cup, hockey's championship trophy? We do.

Every summer, the gfs.bern research institute is commissioned by Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss public what they are worried about. For decades, unemployment was the unbeaten number one - even...

CONTEXT Spain has more leftover fascist symbols and monuments than any other country in the world, in both public and private spaces. And despite the fact that displaying such symbols is...

For Paradise Papers, we used interactive graphics to illustrate complex concepts related to secret, often convoluted tax machinations of some of the world’s most powerful people and corporations....

This visualisation explores which countries in 2010 produced the largest amount of plastic waste and what percentage of this was inadequately managed, but more importantly how does this management...

In December 2015, Paris hosts the COP21, the global climate change summit, where it is imperative for the world nations to come to an agreement regarding their commitment to reducing...

These data visualizers imagined each era of U.S. immigration as a ring in a growing tree trunk.

Insight Lane is a volunteer-driven project that combines open data with the power of data science to predict the likelihood of crashes happening on a city's road network. In order to present the...

Step into the vibrant world of Eurovision with this data-driven piece - where every flag tells a story, and every bar represents a nation's voice in the ultimate musical showdown. Each country’s...

Biocubes.net presents a visual inventory of the living and the built on the planet. It compares the mass of all natural, living organisms (biomass) with that of human-made materials (technomass)....