These seven types of medical waste are the result of procedures, studies and general living habits around the hospital and in the world. They are produced and disposed of through different methods,...

The 20th anniversary of the publication of the first draft of the human genome offers an opportunity to track how the project has empowered research into the genetic roots of human disease, changed...

Information opium is a phenomenon of social media addiction, which manifests itself in the form of being addicted to all kinds of information in social media, thus adversely affecting one's...

This animation has been generated using flight position data which has been sampled every 10 seconds from the OpenSkyNetwork. It provides a journey in visualizing how busy the skies are early...

Wondering what kind of bacteria could be found in the subway, during an 18 month project started in 2013 physiology professor Christopher Mason collected samples from all subway stations in New...

The first issue of Nature was published in November 1869. Our 150th anniversary issue explored the past, present and future of Nature and of science. A data graphic analysis of the archive shows...

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...

The fingerprint is a hyperdense visual representation of the structural composition of a jupyter notebook article published in the Journal of Digital History. It functions both as an overview of...

This special project is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the first and only flight of the spaceship "Buran". The analysis of the flight goes into detail about the most difficult stages of the...

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...

For the past two and half years, the world has been overtaken by an unprecedented global pandemic that changed our behaviors, economies, and uprooted our lives. From the start, scientists and...

"Leaves" is a course assignment of information chart design in the junior year. I collected and summarized the information, and elaborated it in seven aspects, including definition, composition,...

"Deep Space" is based on a hypothetically developed vision of the future on the planet Mars in the year 2100, assuming a dystopian past of the planet Earth and humanity and defining it as a search...

  The visualization represents the prices ($ US) of several sets of illicit goods, around the world, organized from left to right according to their economic value. Whenever possible, it’s given...

This infographic reflects our evolving awareness of space, showing discovery and exploration of planets in our solar system, and the recent accelerated pace of exoplanet discoveries driven by new...

Social Media Development (Worldwide/China) The way people access information is changing at a rapid pace of technology development, with social media gradually replacing traditional media...

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...

Since 2022, global reports of medication shortages have surged, affecting countries like Australia, Canada, USA, China, Japan, and Europe. Antibiotics, critical for saving lives, have been...

The GROW Observatory is a European-wide project engaging thousands of growers, scientists and others passionate about the land. For the Soil Moisture Maps project, we use local sensor and satellite...

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...

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,...

What is over-fitting in data, and how to detect and prevent it from happening.

A real-time map of malware, suspicious emails, and so on. Reported by a variety of digital security companies from across the world.

Some species are so close to extinction, that every remaining member can fit on a New York subway carriage (if they squeeze). First published early September 2018 on Mona Chalabi's Instagram...

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,...

The work "space rocket - way to the moon" deals with the research question of how technically abstract and complex content can be made accessible with the help of targeted group-specific design...

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...

After 50 years of relative quiet, La Palma—one of the youngest and most volcanically active islands in the Canaries—saw a dramatic eruption in 2021. The event was one of the most dev- astating...

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...

In June 2023 the sky over New York City turned dark red. In this graphic analysis, we show why dust clouds cover one of the largest cities in the world.