On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will traverse the contiguous United States. It’ll be the first to traverse coast to coast in nearly a century.

How does the impact of a scientist's work change over a scientific career? Does impact, arguably the most relevant performance measure, follow predictable patterns? Can we predict the timing...

The world is getting hotter. July 2019 was one of the warmest months ever recorded - and July temperatures almost everywhere on Earth have been higher in the last decade compared with 1880-1900....

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....

Most people know about earthquakes, but most people don't know how they happen. This chart shows how earthquakes work.

Discover the interactions between all road cars models produced by Ferrari. In this map, I sketched all Ferrari road cars in flat SVG illustrations and I collected the main information on each...

An Infographic related to safety tips around mobile phone usage, with handy information pieces in three parts. The first part is dedicated to 10 short tips, such as: ‘What safety conditions do i...

A student project, visualization the Space Race between the USA and USSR, to see who would be the first to put a man on the moon. I experimented with various ways of summarizing, grouping, and...

For the December 2016 print issue, Scientific American asked Accurat Studio to develop a data visualization centered on the research paper “A Cosmic Hunt in the Berber sky: a Phylogenetic...

Paper collection of waste in Italy, waste production and 'consumption of paper' year by year from 1990 to 2016.

This is a portrait of the Earth in time and space – designed to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Voyager missions which departed Earth in 1977 bearing a record of our existence etched into...

According to "How Stuff Works", the Internet of Things, or IoT, “consists of all the web-enabled devices that collect, send, and act on data they acquire from their surrounding environments using...

Silicon-based civilization is already integrated into people's lives. Carbon-based civilization is the culture formed by organisms, while silicon-based civilization is driven mainly by data, which...

Pasture and Crop was the winning entry for the first 2019 Tableau IronViz Global Feeder. The topic was agriculture, the supplied data set was the 2012 US Agricultural Census, and the contest was...

This story explains how and why hunching over your phone is destroying your posture and exposing those around you to manifold dangers. Data, diagrams, videos and animation show how and why we get...

Cookies are one of the most misunderstood pieces of the modern web. While technically a cookie is just a simple text (.txt) file stored on your computer when you visit websites, its purposes are...

Our business model enables unprecedented data science, not only in recommendation systems, but also in human computation, resource management, inventory management, algorithmic fashion design and...

While we battle to save Black Rhinos and Mountain Gorillas, what can we learn from those that have already gone? What can the legacy of Schomburgk's Deer, the Paradise Parrot and Lonesome George...

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 clearest visualization of bitcoin we have ever seen. After this summer’s massive Petya/NotPetya hack, Keith Collins of Quartz wanted to show what happened to the $10,000 worth of ransom...

Dimensionality reduction is a powerful technique used by data scientists to look for hidden structure, producing visualizations that reveal patterns and clusters in data. Even though the data is...

This heat map indicates the average daily temperatures of the summer season (June to September) in Tokyo over the course of 140 years. You can hover over or tap on a cell to see detailed...

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...

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).

All solar flares laid over one another as you look at The Sun. Each flare is a circle. Since Feb 2002 there have been 115424 flares detected by the RHESSI mission. Most originate from The Sun...

COMMIT is a data visualization and sonification work created by Ren Yuan. By getting the commit history of more than 400 developers on the Processing, p5.js, Processing.py and Processing for...

A visualization of wind direction, frequency, and speed at the airports of nine major cities in the US from January to October, 2018. Cities in include New York, Charlotte, Jacksonville,...

Academic affinities are one of the most fundamental hidden dynamics that drive scientific development. Some affinities are actual, and consequently can be measured through classical academic...

This interactive map shows that central London is blanketed in air pollution that is above legal limits. The visualisation is based on new data from King's College London, combining air pollution...