How much of an increase in temperatures in Spain because of climate change? I analysed the temperatures increase in 47 stations of AEMET(State Meteorological Agency in Spain). The data came...

Trends in sea-ice thickness and volume are an important indicator of Arctic climate change. While sea ice thickness observations are sparse, here we utilize a ocean-ice model, PIOMAS (Zhang and...

Structuring and organising information has always been a way to familiarise myself with new things. It’s how I understand and interact with information systems around me. It’s also how I learn new...

Storytelling In a world of global competition, startup ecosystems and their innovators need to build their ventures based upon their core strengths. The depicted comparison of Europe and China not...

Wondering what kind of bacteria could be found in the subway, during an 18 month project started in 2013 physiology professor Christopher Mason collected samples from all subway stations in New...

Nesta has developed, and visualised, the most comprehensive public classification of skills available in the UK. We hope that the taxonomy will help workers and students learn more about the skills...

The Natural Resources Inventory is an interactive collection of metrics and data visualisations that depict the stock, value and use of Queensland’s natural resources. It is the world’s first...

Illustration of 102 significant volcanic eruptions of last 18 years based on dataset by National Centers for Environmental Information (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/volcano.shtml)....

As part of a classroom assignment to visually represent a data set, I took up the challenge of conceptually redesigning the Nutrition Label found on packaged food products, issued by the FDA. The...

For traditional Chinese medicine, many people have misconceptions that traditional Chinese medicine has no scientific basis and is very old and will be eliminated. But in today's China, traditional...

In a world of increasing inter-connectivity, programming languages form the foundation. This outlines the history of those languages.

Most people know about earthquakes, but most people don't know how they happen. This chart shows how earthquakes work.

While doctors dream of one day perfecting medical treatments on digital clones of a patient, virtual organs are already being simulated in supercomputers. This documentary describes the efforts of...

It's easy to imagine running out of oil or water. Gadolinium? Not so much. From the batteries in our electronics to the alloys holding up our buildings, individual elements play crucial—if...

Majestic analyses billions of URLs a day to maintain a map of how the Web links together. This map is valuable to digital marketers - however, the process of analysing linking relationships can...

"Leaves" is a course assignment of information chart design in the junior year. I collected and summarized the information, and elaborated it in seven aspects, including definition, composition,...

Academic affinities are one of the most fundamental hidden dynamics that drive scientific development. Some affinities are actual, and consequently can be measured through classical academic...

Nick Bostrom has a very interesting paper called ​“Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” The basic intuition is that preventing even small risks of human extinction is worthwhile if we...

Swarm intelligence is a project that uses data visualization to tell a story about ants daily behavior, and how they are inspiring human beings to simulate their behavior to solve tricky problems...

This artwork shows the periodic table structured according to the nation and year of discovery of each element. Source: Royal Society of Chemistry

On the 1st of July, Shanghai started enforcing its compulsory domestic waste management. The city's regulation requires people to sort trash into four categories - dry garbage, wet garbage (kitchen...

In 1961, Astronomer Frank Drake came up with an equation to estimate how many detectable extraterrestrial civilizations might exist in our galaxy. Each variable is a crucial factor for the...

9/11 came as a gift to NSA, giving them more power and freedom to have mass surveillances illegally. And not just through eavesdropping on our phones, they’ve found a new weapon to invade our...

This creative information display makes visual comparisons of my own genetic sequence with that of my grandmother. This work was created with a custom Color SVG Font, “DNA Loops”, which allows a...

These seven types of medical waste are the result of procedures, studies and general living habits around the hospital and in the world. They are produced and disposed of through different methods,...

Bean is an adult green sea turtle from Costa Rica; one of only 90,000 nesting females remaining in the wild. Bean was tagged with a satellite transmitter by the Sea Turtle Conservancy so we can...

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have defied easy categorization since they burst into the public consciousness last year, fueling an intense debate over how they should fit into the average...

Studies of GMO foods have shown tumors, organ failure, gastric lesions, liver damage, kidney damage, allergic reactions and more. This poster is outrage at our nation's food supply system which I...

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...

Cookies are one of the most misunderstood pieces of the modern web. While technically a cookie is just a simple text (.txt) file stored on your computer when you visit websites, its purposes are...