As part of our light-hearted Christmas issue in 2020, we published an article investigating the toxological impacts of the ingredients of George’s Marvellous Medicine from Roald Dahl’s famous book....
The scientific poster titled “Data Transformations for Effective Visualization of Single-Cell Embeddings” presents a new embedding-based approach by Ozette for visualizing datasets of millions of...
The overall aim of the SENSES Toolkit — available under climatescenarios.org — is to make climate change scenarios more understandable, accessible, and usable.
Climate change scenarios are a...
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...
The state of Kerala has always been the forerunner in educational and social reforms in India, but now it is crucial to integrate inter-state migrant workers into its society for the state’s...
The Banda Ultralarga (Ultrafast Broadband) Strategic Plan ("BUL") for Italy was announced in 2015 with a promise that by 2020, infrastructure to support broadband internet connection would reach...
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...
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...
First discovered in 2015, LIGO and Virgo have since detected 50 gravitational wave events. These ripples through space time itself are caused by the violent collisions of black holes (and/or...
This was a data-driven explainer detailing what “psychobehavioral segmentation” is and how we can use this approach to drive vaccine uptake. Rather than just looking at demographics, the approach...
We’re breathing microplastic, eating it and drinking plastic-infused water every day. Reuters sourced, shredded, weighed then visualised real piles of plastic to illustrate how much enters our...
Degrees of Uncertainty is an animated data-driven documentary about climate science, uncertainty, and knowing when to trust the experts. Using cinematic depictions of past and future climate...
The visualization is created using Tableau software, and some design elements are created with MS PowerPoint and Photoshop. The viz conveys a detailed analysis of the chemical composition of...
This project is called Unsub Extender, a free Python-based web application to analyze Unsub data.
Unsub is a collection analysis tool that many academic libraries use to analyze their journal...
This work is a Venn diagram designed to quantitatively illustrate the biology and sociology of abortion, both induced and spontaneous, and for both pro-choice and anti-abortion women, in the United...
This is a visualization of unicorn companies (companies with a valuation of over $1 Billion USD. This visualization demonstrates the sharp increase in the number of unicorns in recent years. This...
Where do cosmic X-rays come from? Every new unidentified X-ray source has the potential to revolutionise our understanding of the universe. Astronomers thus aimed at automatically classifying new...
The annual number of deaths of children under 5 years of age around the globe decreased from 19.6 million in 1950 to 5.4 million in 2017, a change of nearly 72%! Undoubtedly the decrease in child...
It has become common to say "I'm depressed" when we mean "I'm sad" and therefore underestimate just how severe depression is and how harmful it can be. This viz takes a look at depression: the...
This work sprung from a database on the titles of papers of NBER programs. I kept only papers between 1980 and 2020, removed stopwords, and unified some terms. Then, I obtained the 5 most used...
HIV is a global problem, but it is getting rampant in Russia. One of the key reasons is the lack of awareness and the taboo nature of the topic.
According to the UN, Russia has one of the...
This data physicalization (i.e. physical data visualization) illustrates the heat-dome-related deaths as reported to the BC Coroners Service between June/20/ 2021 and July/ 29/2021. According to...
Epigenetics is a field of research that examines molecular changes in the genome that are influenced by external factors such as nutrition or stress. The latest research results offer great...
This infographic introduces the function, the history, and the key features of Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The interactive map shows the origin and amount of seeds of the top 8 genera.
‘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...
For centuries, medicine has failed women. Despite the many advancements we have made in society in recent decades, gender-biased healthcare is still a significant problem very few people are...
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,...
THE 1918 INFLUENZA PANDEM IC—ALSO KNOWN AS THE SPANISH FLU — wreaked havoc into 1920 and earned the dubious honor of being the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. In 2020, as many parts of the...
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...