The increased industrialization of farm animals has not only affected the number of animals processed every year, but has also had immense environmental effects on the air, land, and water of the...
During challenging times, I started recording daily emotions on a psychologist's advice, wondering if they could be visualized. I encoded emotions with colors: intense emotions had saturated hues,...
Every minute, across the globe, eager hands purchase a staggering one million plastic bottles. Annually, up to five trillion plastic bags rustle in the wind, filling shopping carts and...
'Murderous Virus' is an information design that visualizes crime data from 1990 to 2016 in Korea. The number of crimes in each year, crime rate by population, crime rate by region and crime rate...
When a practically unknown Russian engineer, scientist and architect, Vladimir Shukhov, built his revolutionary broadcasting tower in Moscow, little did he know about the impact his work would have...
Part 2 of The Bat Lands. First it jumped from bats to pigs. Then pigs gave it to people. Now the brain-damaging Nipah virus has found a way to leap from bats to humans without an intermediary host....
At the beginning of 2019, residents in southern China has suffered from an abnormally long rainy season. How long has the sun gone wandering? We charted three infographics to mark this...
Trends in sea ice thickness/volume are an important indicator of Arctic climate change. While sea ice thickness observations are sparse, here we utilize the ocean and sea ice model, PIOMAS (Zhang...
IEPS DATA is a state-of-the-art platform that democratizes health data to monitor and support evidence-informed policies in Brazil. It allows different stakeholders to explore, compare, monitor,...
The Cancer Monitoring Dashboard is the authoritative source of information about the incidence and mortality of cancer in Switzerland. The website provides the general public with detailed insights...
In partnership with Hopelab, the Koko team turned to Data Culture to showcase the proven benefits of their enhanced crisis response tool. Using both CDC data, and results from Koko’s peer-reviewed...
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...
Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute and they are having a devastating effect on the environment.
The Reuters Graphics team visualised plastic bottle...
Anaptár is a unique, informative poster calendar, which is a source of fascinating new discoveries. It provides lots of information beside enumerating days: visualizing data on the Sun and the Moon...
Part 1 of The Bat Lands. A recent Marburg virus outbreak in Ghana highlights how the thirst for resources is driving destruction of the world’s most biodiverse areas and putting humans in...
A data visualization to see how climate change is increasing temperatures in Zaragoza.
Through graphics we will see, and consult the maximum and minimum temperatures, tropical nights and frosts...
The infographic is structured on 2 levels: one more internal, relating to the 2021 figure, and one more external, showing the trend compared to the figure 10 years earlier. The structure of the...
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...
Feeling hangry? From food cravings to brain fog, blood sugar spikes may be the cause. Graphics team members Karina Zaiets and Veronica Bravo teamed up to create this illustrated (and meticulously...
Adding comments - human readable descriptions - to code is good practice when writing code in any programming language. However, different programming languages use different symbols to indicate a...
Preface: Why are using the same graphs that were invented in 1786? Science is necessarily methodical, and methodical can be slow. Like any slow process, the evolution and modernizing of the process...
Part 4 of The Bat Lands. The Amazon, one of the most bat-diverse regions in the world, is under constant assault from deforestation yet no widespread viral outbreak has been documented there....
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...
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...
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...
Many of us routinely force our bodies to fight sleep. We drink caffeinated beverages by day to stay alert and alcohol to wind down at night. Some of us work all night and sleep in daylight. Others...
Research presentation, sharing findings from the "Polarizing Political Polling" study at IEEE VIS 2023 in Melbourne.
Public opinion charts don’t just visualize public opinion, they also shape...