This illustrated story of the human evolution spans from the first cell to Charles Darwin in 7.27 meters with 259 beautiful flat illustrations. In this survey, all the most relevant species are...

Almost half of Americans believe that immigrants make crime worse. But the data tells a different story. This visual piece examines the relationship between immigration and crime in American cities...

Online social networks and information networks have become an integral part of our daily lives. However, these networks are not entirely open to everyone. Algorithms play a role in determining...

Stereotypes happen for a reason. A quick look at data from Statista confirms how Western media often label Arab women as shallow with outrageous taste in beauty standards. But there are cultural...

There are 80 countries* which have participated in a past World Cup tournament or are going to participate in this years World Cup. They have been participating with their own national...

X-DATA’s Data Lab, a Mexican data analytics studio, is the place of experimentation that led to the creation of the first data visualization project focused on Mexican gastronomy and which was...

Are you past your prime? To explore this question, we plotted the lives of 177 creative thinkers and the ages at which they each completed one notable work, discovery, or product launch. Our...

The attack by IS-related groups on the Philippine city of Marawi has highlighted the increasing presence of the militant group in Southeast Asia and has set alarm bells ringing.

London population map

Over the past decade, the U.S. government has awarded nearly $350 million in grants to help local and state agencies across the country test long-neglected evidence from sexual assaults and bring...

The purpose of this project is to discuss the position of graphic design on the border between the research community and the public, through visualization of different aspects of a peace and...

How much does the translation behavior of a language indicate about its culture? Do German speakers seek the same words translated as the Spanish? To investigate, we've analyzed all the single word...

A series of graphics produced to compliment the main SR15 report on the impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C. The FAQ graphics are intended to back up the graphics in the report and make the subject...

The Song of Time delves into how individuals spend their time with different groups—friends, partners, parents and family, coworkers, children, and alone—across ages 15 to 85. The visualization...

People travel not just more frequently, but increasingly far and quickly. Mapping the connections between all the airports worldwide is a fascinating network visualization exercise. A network, in...

Discover images with data visualization. You may or may not know of Unsplash, the internet’s source of freely useable images. Here, on viz.photos you can discover Unsplash’s images in a...

Why do Russians support the war against Ukraine and what role does Russian propaganda play in this? This was the central question of the data-driven project that analysed over 3 million articles...

Italy is the world leader in pasta production, producing more than 3,000,000 tons every year. We are the most caloric country, indeed. What if pasta calories were converted in kilowatt per hour?...

Climate Central's flagship sea level project, two years in the making, allows users to search or navigate interactive maps to see areas below different amounts of sea level rise and flooding — down...

Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

Quartz went through every page, summarized the relevant sections and annotated the redactions.

Given the increasing prevalence of wildfires in the United States, specifically on the west coast, I took a look at the trend of wildfires over the last 10 years in California. My design aim was to...

New Haven pizza is the best pizza, period. And you know it’s New Haven pizza because it’s spelled “apizza” (pronounced “abeetz” in classic local style). It also turns out that the “apizza” region...

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura on the production, export and consumption of tea in the world from 2008 to 2013. Source: Fao Food and Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations

I picked the 24 cities based on a balancing act of the following criteria: Cities with data-rich sources (some of the best historic data happens to be provided by international airports in...

The animated map shows the distributions of population and wealth across the globe styled as a nighttime satellite image. It illuminates one of the major issues of our collective present and...

Have you ever wondered what civil planes' routes look like?

The subject of refugees and migrants is extremely sensitive and confusing. Who, why, when and how many? Should governments dictate the amount of migrants coming into Europe and where they should...

Music is an important part of my life and I imagined what it would be like as a hearing-impaired person to experience a song by what it "looks" like, instead. This is a "map" of the song In the...