Why do new variants keep appearing? And why are we at risk of new outbreaks? Dive into the heart of SARS-CoV-2 and discover the surprising role of the spike protein. The Omicron variant was...

The British have always been obsessed with Class, and apparently we still are. The BBC's Great British Class Calculator has so far had more than 7 million page views. The project began when the...

Depression affects millions, with prevalence varying by demographics and region. To illustrate this, we developed an interactive visualization, allowing users to explore depression prevalence in...

Over a century before the mis-marketing of OxyContin dominated news outlets, the nation faced its first widespread opioid epidemic. The emergence, exploitation, and eruption of both epidemics...

Until recently, it was impossible to measure the popularity of older music. Billboard charts and album sales only tell us about a song’s popularity at the time of its release. But now we have...

The project visualizes scores of press freedom over years. 'Freedom of the Press', an annual report on media independence around the world, assesses the degree of print, broadcast, and digital...

With the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts is likely to be the median justice. How has the ideology of the median justice and chief justice shifted over...

As my extended major project, during my time at The Arts University Bournemouth, I chose to investigate the visualisation of flavour. Palate is a swatch book that visualises the characteristics of...

What’s in Season is a digital seasonal calendar created to support responsible consumption in Spain. Most of the Spanish fruit and vegetable calendars include errors and therefore prevent citizens...

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Across the United States, schools and libraries are facing mounting pressure from conservative groups to remove books they deem to be 'inappropriate'. These challenges often target content...

PhoenixMap, a visual analytics system to help analysts understand spatiotemporal distribution patterns and anomalies of many objects. It focuses on solving quantitatively visualizing the spatial...

In a world grappling with plastic pollution, Coverdolly presents an innovative solution to one of agriculture's most pressing challenges: greenhouse plastic waste. This visual narrative challenges...

An historical overview on the visualization of data and information. Visualization is a language that could be defined as almost universal, something that makes it possible to translate data and...

张衡早在东汉时期发明了地动仪，但由于历史的流失，地动仪只能通过科研人员逐步的根据历史记载复原，我希望更多的人们了解中国候风地动仪的文化。将时序性图表、空间关系性图表、分类关联性图表相结合，展现中外地震仪的发明，以东汉时期候风地动仪为主图，将其分解说明，将中外地震仪的发明进行对比，人们可以从这张图表中获得系统简洁易懂的地震仪文化，画面简洁现代。 Zhang heng, in the...

MTA Ridership Changes due to COVID-19 recounts what happened to New York City during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Data visualization agency TWO-N began the project wanting to create...

Since When Does Vogue Hate Text" investigates whether the amount of text on the covers of US Vogue magazines has changed over time. Through this analysis, readers are invited to explore how...

As part of a digital PR campaign for Magnet Kitchens, iProspect opened 100 large bags of Haribo, counting and logging every single sweet (5,738). They then calculated the average split of sweets...

In similar fashion to the natural kingdom, where plant and animal species range from abundant to endangered, the world's 7,168 languages are also classified stronger or weaker using different...

Final projection: Find out who was leading the race in your constituency, according to the final polls. The map shows which party was expected to win each of the 650 seats, which might change...

The path to power means checking certain boxes.

Video data visualisation in motion design showing the urbanisation of the planet throughout the ages. Since 2008, more than half of the humain beings live in cities. Every second, 2 people add up...

Gaming has traditionally been considered a male-dominated pastime. With this work, we aim to shatter this misconception and present beautiful, visual evidence that women are a highly valuable...

Every two years, the Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program collects student outcomes data to assess community colleges nationally and inform the process through which the finalists and...

This is an interactive information design that maps the genetic proximity of languages after you select the language you speak. It gives a set of languages that is closest and furthest in genetic...

A data visualization that presents the global distribution, across continents and countries, of minerals using the periodic table of elements. There is strong competition among producing...

Opens up the power and flexibility of d3 to analysts. It aims to give a gentle learning curve and minimal code to achieve something productive. It also exposes the d3 objects so you can pick...

The first thousand days of a child are the most important to guarantee healthy development. IMAPI is a Nurturing Care Municipality Index that combines over 100 metrics that are strongly related to...

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

In the HBO megahit Game of Thrones, characters, houses, and allegiances continue to change as new kings and queens gain power, opposing sides do battle, and characters meet one another across the...