Graphics team members Carlie Procell and Janet Loehrke teamed up to create this combined explanation of science and astrological phenomena.
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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...
On the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) is setting its sights on returning to the moon, and going far beyond. This interactive...
Climate change is likely to contribute to more hot and humid days across Canada, but every region is different. To help readers gauge just how hot it could feel in their area, CBC News crunched the...
The airless chasm between Earth and the moon is so vast, stretching an average of 239,200 miles wide, that it'd take a 747 jet airplane flying at top speed more than 14 days to arrive. Even...
To facilitate the creation and exploration of genomic and epigenomic visualization tools created at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, our team developed the St. Jude Cloud Visualization...
Happiness is a deeply personal experience, yet everyone pursues happiness. Growing up in Beijing and living across the globe sparked my curiosity about the ways different cultures perceive and live...
Think you need fast internet speeds to stream Netflix, Amazon or YouTube smoothly? Think again. The Wall Street Journal’s extensive test data shows that typical U.S. households don’t use most of...
The visualization shows an analysis of renewable energy supply in Italy and in the world.
Renewable energy is defined as the contribution of renewables to total primary energy supply (TPES).
This data art piece conveys the intricacies of a year’s worth of flights performed by Transavia, a Dutch airline. Each flight is turned into an abstract shape whose appearance is completely...
Rare Earth Hypothesis shows how unique the Earth is in the universe. There are many factors that make life on Earth, including the appearance of the Moon. There are six hypotheses about the origin...
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been a topic of fascination and controversy for decades. With the advancements in technology, more and more sightings are being reported and documented...
This visualization shows the incredible patterns created by the relative orbital positions of different pairs of planets in our solar system. Each section represents a different pairing and the...
Turkey’s deadliest quakes in modern times may have also unleashed a health catastrophe for generations to come. Asbestos, silica, mercury and lead are among thousands of toxins released by the huge...
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...
Plastic waste, mostly from rivers or careless dumping on land, washes into the oceans at an average rate of about nine million tons a year. The visible trash, along with heartbreaking images of its...
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...
Spacesuits have undergone four generations of evolution since they were known in the late 1950s. They date back to the pressure suits designed for pilots during World War II. Also rich in science...
As young researchers, we all strive to aim high in our careers. But how high may we plan? This project was born out of curiosity to see what statistics say about our chances to be published in...
I am an astronomer working on a website to deliver stellar properties to the masses. While I was making a JS version of what we call an Hertzspring-Russell diagram, a plot of stars comparing their...
The Journal plotted the location of every satellite currently in orbit, charting and color coding each by use and by country of origin, to illustrate the race to profit from space. This visually...
The second part of “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning” series, this installment describes a tradeoff fundamental to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using scroll-linked...
A color- and artful visualization of the cumulative travel time by cosmo- and astronauts from the first space mission in 1961 to 2019.
The distance and the size of the points encode the...
JPEG images are everywhere in our digital lives, powered by algorithms that remove details that are imperceptible to the human eye. This produces the highest visual quality with the smallest file...
Our World in Data publish yearly stats on energy usage by country and energy source type (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), and this makes for an intimidating dataset on an increasingly urgent...
One of the societal challenges in high-income countries (HICs) is fertility decline below replacement level, driven by increasing childlessness (Zeman et al. 2018). For example, in Southern Europe...
An infographic story about how quantum computing works. The last pages are about the research/project TU Delft EEMC faculty is doing in this area. This infographic story is mainly created for...