People often talk about a dog’s behaviors as strongly associated with their breed or genetics. For example, the Golden Retriever is commonly thought to have a highly sociable, easy-to-train,...

This story explains what people worldwide have been feeling in 2021, based on Gallup’s World Happiness Report. In addition, it also lets people compare with others and explore further. I used a...

Mars has always been a source of marvel. It captivated ancient civilizations, its red hue setting it apart from other points of light in the night sky. Even in recent history, some suggested it was...

This short data essay merges personal data with scientific research about sleep. The visualizations reflect on my sleep patterns during the final semester of (remote) university in comparison to...

This is an interactive infographic which visualizes years of “impact investing” (socially responsible investment) in a horizontally-scrolling timeline. The project is an updated version of an...

I created this collection in honor of Albert Einstein who was born on pi day in 1879. That is why I chose to visualize the first 1879 digits of pi through circles and squares. This is my first...

Cosmograph is a novel (and fastest) network graph visualization tool which can draw large networks consisting of up to 1 million nodes and several million edges in real-time. Even on a...

‘A magnificent work of art design insight philosophy. Tufte discovers insights in ordinary graphics. Not only graphics, but lists and stacks, which take on new significance. The chapter on ethics...

PageRank Algorithm Visualization is a project with the aim to make visible and comprehensible the functioning of “Page Rank”, ex Google’s algorithm. A 2D poster game interactive visualization to...

This data visualization focuses on the maternal mortality rates across the globe and sheds light on factors that play an important role in its prevalence, as well as causes of death. Maternal...

Resurfacing the Past is a data-driven story that explores the naval history of World War II. Underpinning the story is a manually curated dataset of more than 15,000 sunken ships. By visualizing...

As part of its 150th anniversary, Nature, the world’s leading science journal, collaborated with network scientists led by Albert Laszlo Barabasi at Northeastern University in Boston. The...

What we eat needs to be nutritious and sustainable. Our data visualisation for Nature’s feature shows how such ‘planetary health’ diet should look like according to researchers and how it compares...

In March 1965, Voskhod 2 and its two passengers spun around the Earth for just over a day. A few minutes of that remarkable journey made history. As the spacecraft made one of its 17 orbits,...

At any one moment in time, thousands of measurements are being taken of the world’s weather. Across land, sea and sky, data is being gathered manually and automatically using a range of...

Land animals have developed countless solutions to a single challenge: how best to get from one place to another. Modes of travel vary depending on an animal’s size and environment, with the goal...

I created this 3D visualization entirely in R, using the rayrender package (a software package that I also wrote and have released to the community). I also used the geojsonsf R package to convert...

An interactive data visualization piece of 173 maps and 63 charts that present the country's health infrastructure (hospital, hospital beds, number of doctors) at a microregional level for each of...

Celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30-year anniversary with these visualizations that take a closer look into the telescope's long history, created for Physics Today. The main visual is a...

This animation has been generated using flight position data which has been sampled every 10 seconds from the OpenSkyNetwork. It provides a journey in visualizing how busy the skies are early...

This datavisualisation shows the age, gender, and experience (number and duration of missions) of astronauts. It mimics a galaxy and highlights key patterns in the data: the oldest, youngest and...

The attempt of one brave reporter to eliminate sugar from his diet for two weeks. The visualizations show how well he managed to reduce his total sugar intake by avoiding products with added sugar....

The "Biodiversity" project is based on a study by the Leopoldina Academy on the connection between species extinction and agriculture. The particular challenge was to put this extensive study into...

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...

As the WHO worked to uncover the origin of the coronavirus, Reuters created this data-driven, visually rich explainer on why bats make the ideal hosts for viruses.

Two Soviet steppe tortoises had already flown around the moon by the time Neil Armstrong set foot on it in 1969. Initial animal studies focused on adaptability to and logistics of travel as many...

Data shows why the volcanic lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record. Reuters used data from a ground-based global lightning detection network to visualize the...

A series of visualizations to accompany the conclusions of a report by Unearthed & Public Eye on the sales of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) by the CropLife companies. The main visuals...

County-level data can be very rich, and detailed enough to extract meaningful geographic disparities and reveal distributions that may be problematic and require attention. A county-level analysis...

The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1901. How strongly are women represented? Who were the youngest and oldest winners? And where is the best place to do research? A data analysis with creative...