Every year, many Americans go to great lengths to get into the Christmas spirit. They carry trees into their homes, climb up onto various objects to hang strings of lights, and spend hours...

The number of Americans who do yoga has more than doubled in less than a decade.

Serena Williams was toppled from the number one spot following the US Open, just as she matched Steffi Graf’s all-time record of 186 consecutive weeks atop the WTA rankings. Shown below is every...

Subreddits that had "active" users in common between 2015-2016 are linked by a directed edge whose weight is proportional to the fraction of users from one subreddit that were also active in the...

With the interactive map, users can follow the Berlin Marathon in time lapse for the first time, and compare the runners. The application shows how fast all 35,827 runners that finished the 2016...

This visualization allows the user to see every play from the College Football National Championship as they scroll down through time. The search functionality allows you to search for a particular...

Exploring the biodiversity of Professional sports teams based on their logo and/or team name.

This visualization tracks the entire history of every team in the NFL. The bar charts above the line show winning seasons and below show losing seasons; gold bars indicate Super Bowl wins. The...

With increasingly sophisticated data available, major league hitters are focusing on getting the ball in the air.

This interactive data explorer is built by acclaimed designer Moritz Stefaner and his team at Truth & Beauty, using Google Trends data. It’s also the second in the Google News Lab’s series of...

Data design created with the Roger Federer's Grand Slam titles, by tournament and type of surface, since 2003, date of his first victory at Wimbledon.

The National Football League (NFL) and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) partnered more than eight months ago to challenge students minoring in Creative Technology to reimagine all of the...

A look at the 120-year history of Australian Rules Football (1897-2016). The visualization explores ladder placement for each club after the home and away season as well as premiership success.

"Dragon dance" is an introduction to the traditional Chinese cultural activity of dragon dance." The dragon is a totem worshipped by the Chinese people for generations. In ancient times, the...

A summary of fifteen thousand American Football games

The use of Analytics in the Football industry (European Football, or Soccer) is in its infancy. Unlike the US, where analytics are integral to any sports organisation, in Europe, it's just getting...

This analysis and visualization is inspired by the most frequent question I got when I told people that I was a synchronized swimmer; "How long can you stay underwater?". I would try to explain...

Along with irreverent football coverage, Top Corner likes to back up its opinions with facts. Most issues dedicate its centrefold to a piece of data visualisation that often attempts to debunk...

Please note that this preview image is cropped from a much larger work. Please click the link below to see it in full.  This visualization explores cocktail drinking habits during a cruise...

Baseball junkies have long debated whether or not pitchers have hot and cold streaks. Fans and commenters have historically said yes they do, but sports data analysts have claimed believers in...

The short story behind how Snapchat, this year’s most anticipated tech IPO, started in 2011, less than 6 years ago. In that short time, Snapchat went from $0 to $25 Billion in valuation. Compare...

Since 2014 The Visual Agency has worked with Brembo, a global leader in the design, development and production of braking systems, to help them tell the story of their involvement in the F1,...

Scoutpanel is a data-driven tool to easily access all football player and team performances as well as match reports worldwide. The intuitive and touch-optimised interface helps football scouts to...

FiveThirtyEight’s CARMELO identifies similar players throughout NBA history and uses them to develop a probabilistic forecast of what a current NBA player’s future might look like.

Craft beer is so hot right now. You might think our biggest city, New York City, is the best, but not quite. After analyzing over 1,600 breweries, New York comes in 16th out of the 800+ biggest...

Visualization of the proportion of French people who know how to play a musical instrument (19%). Infographic from "The French" collection by Vite Vu Bien Vu

In-game win probabilities and chances of advancing, updating live.

I created a Data-driven Design based on Albert Pujols great achievement hitting his 600th home run in the MLB this year with the Los Angeles Angels. He is only the 9th MLB player to ever hit this...

I play a lot of Scrabble. My father introduced me to the game when I was 12 and we've played frequently ever since (25 years as of this writing). When my interest in data art and visualization was...

Reading a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book can feel like being lost in a maze and running through twists and turns only to find dead ends, switchbacks, and disappointment. In the books—for those...