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...
Health insurance companies buy prescription drugs the way U.S. consumers buy cars: There’s the sticker price (which few people actually pay) and there’s the negotiated price.
This visualisation was built in honour of Women’s History Month this year. Women and their achievements have often been ignored, particularly, in science.
We see evidence of The Matilda Effect -...
Two Soviet steppe tortoises had already flown around the moon by the time Neil Armstrong set foot on it in 1969.
Initial animal studies focused on adaptability to and logistics of travel as many...
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...
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...
If the world is made of narratives, the best way to forecast our future is to understand which stories are influencing our thinking and technological imagination. By looking at outstanding top...
Eating a poor quality diet high in junk food is linked to a higher risk of obesity, depression, digestive issues, heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and early death.
This...
As a key figure in the IPCC Synthesis Report, Figure SPM1, panel c, captured global media attention and inspired many related visualizations. Figure SPM1c breaks new ground for IPCC as it ties...
Since the 1970's there have been attempts to introduce a kind of a unitary patent; all unsuccessful. Will it be different this time? Will the UK participate regardless of Brexit? Interestingly,...
With the evolution of technology, scientific knowledge, which used to be understood only by scientists, started to be transmitted to the general public through physical or digital artefacts...
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...
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...
Online museum collections provide a treasure trove of objects to explore, and allow the public to view a much larger proportion of a museum’s collection than they could see by visiting the museum...
A map that visualizes at the percentage of population with acess to broadband internet alongside the number of primary care physicians per capita for each county in 50 states and the District of...
Every day, 91 people overdose on opioids in the United States. Opioid addiction has become an epidemic. Why is it such a big problem? And what can we do to help?
In this animation, a...
The infographic shows that, after excluding the geographical latitude factor which indicated the strongest correlation, the most significant correlation was between per capita car ownership and...
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...
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...
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...
Britain's coal free record visualisation talks about how Britain is setting new records for going coal-powered energy. It shows the daily share of power generated by burning goal.
The work we do with our client, the Canadian Climate Institute, is always an opportunity to be bold, collaborative and to gain creative confidence. In this new project, the objective was to reveal...
It is said that the eyes are the mirror to the soul. While this is arguable, it is undeniable that they mirror our genetics. Eye colour is one of the features that make each of us unique. But why...
Imagine having to explore, compare, and organize hundreds to thousands of small regions in one or more large images or visualizations. For example, how would you assess the typical look and...