Nowadays, the term artificial intelligence is not new to anybody. “Intelligent“ devices and algorithms are everywhere – as digital assistants or chatbots, for example. The notion, that an algorithm...
On April 14th, 2003, the Human Genome Project announced the successful sequencing of approximately 20,000 human genes. Since then, genomics has profoundly impacted public health. Despite the...
Imagine if policy makers and interventionalists had the ability to access and explore aggregate health information from across geographic regions at their fingertips. The Population Health OutcomEs...
This graphic tells a small story about bicycle ridership in Seattle. It does so with a line chart, a sunburst, and a novel chart type: table cartograms (TGRAM) in a treemap. The TGRAM encodes...
To create a series of graphics explaining the benefits of eating a low GI diet and how it can overcome weight and diabetes. For this project I approached it using the raw data to build the concept...
This visualisation explores the use of plastic bags in the UK. Specifically, I focus on legislation aimed at reducing plastic bag usage and what impact this has made.
The entrant has supplied an...
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...
"Tree of Life" portrays global life expectancy. Its central feature is a chord chart shaped like a tree, where each branch symbolizes a continent, branching further into countries. The size of each...
Reuters documented and analysed more than 10,000 aftershocks that struck southern Turkey and northwest Syria in the weeks after the two massive earthquakes in February.
The team were able to...
What the online encyclopedia has gained in responsiveness, completeness, and user engagement, it has lost in terms of the quality of its editorial design, typography, and illustrations. This...
This visual, created by a cross-functional team across EVERSANA, is a dashboard constructed in tableau that comprises dozens of sheets that have been assembled to provide an audience a complete...
This infographic is about the long trail of death and destruction that “category 5” hurricanes leave every year on their path across the United States and the conterminous seas.
The visualization...
In May, the World Health Organization asked the Viz for Social Good community to help them visualise what disability looks like across the globe through a digitally accessible lens.
Leveraging...
We are all familiar with the layout of the long-standing Periodic table, as well as the distribution of its constituent elements, but who discovered them, and when?
2019 was named the...
There's a good chance you experienced an earthquake today. Every day there are hundreds of thousands of earthquakes all over the world, except most are so small they are never felt. But what...
"The international astronomical union officially defined the concept of planets in 2006. The new definition of planet excludes Pluto as a dwarf planet. There are only eight planets left in the...
About 30% of UK jobs will be potentially threatened in the coming years by innovations in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Lower than that of the United States and Germany, respectively...
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....
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...
The Gender Diamond and Gender Flower are two interactive visualizations of the gender spectrum that suggest a mathematical datafication of nonconforming gender identities and sexualities. With...
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...
For at least 9,000 years agaves have been an integral part of Mesoamerican culture, identity, and tradition, supporting rural communities and healthy ecosystems. In Mexico today, intensive farming...
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...
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...
The information visualization design under the overview of antimicrobial resistance is designed to let people clearly see the impact and harm of bacterial resistance caused by the abuse of...
The US electricity system is often described as the world’s largest machine. It is also incredibly diverse, reflecting the policy preferences, needs and available natural resources of each state....
This infographic offers an in-depth look at the state of global fishing. It compares the most used fishing techniques and their impact, the most fished species and their provenance, the global...
‘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...
The Tiangong Space Station is a great aerospace project in China. I want to present theThe structure of the space station, how it is launched, how it is formed, and what is the difference with the...