Hard-earned lessons from our notebook about information design and infographics. Hands-on, honest and condensed.   We’ve been working in the field of infographics and visual information for...

The Veins of leaves, the wings of a dragonfly, giraffe body texture, land cracked cracks, honeycomb shape, all have the same unique mesh structure. The most accurate words to describe this...

Chartable is a blog written by people who work at Datawrapper, a charting tool for journalists. Together with our readers, we explore how to create better charts and maps: What to consider when...

In an attempt to feel a connection to my fellow female information designers, I visualized the 142 women who responded to Elijah Meeks' data visualization practitioner survey. It shows the...

The Infographic wheel is a handheld design tool - also known as a volvelle - that helps a user select an infographic layout based on the characteristics of their data. Many professionals who work...

Scalable Insets is a new technique for interactively exploring and navigating large numbers of annotated patterns or features in multiscale visualizations such as gigapixel images, matrices, or...

The ‘data-to-viz’ project aims to guide anyone to the most appropriate graphic representation for their given dataset. To do so, major chart types have been classified based on input data...

Exploration of the shape of hashtag conversations at Tableau's 2017 conference. The sonar chart type of each hashtag shows how the conversation evolved in each hour that someone tweeted about it,...

Explore this interactive visualization about the world of visualization itself - see charts, books, and tools arranged by popularity and trends in this collaboration between Google News Lab and...

A video of an interactive visualisation that demonstrates how colour (green, white and grey) is used to display associations, and dissociations, in data. This is fun way of educating people in how...

Earlier this year, my friend Elijah made a bold claim: that most people in data visualization end up leaving, because there’s something wrong with the current state of the field. It stirred quite a...

Statistical fallacies are common tricks data can play on you, which lead to mistakes in data interpretation and analysis. Explore some common fallacies, with real-life examples, and find out how...

This website allows you to take any picture and split it into thousands particles. The particles are arranged according to color intensities into a histogram.

Charticulator is an interactive authoring tool that enables the creation of bespoke and reusable chart layouts. Charticulator transforms a chart specification into mathematical layout constraints...

Using data visualization can improve the effectiveness of human rights work that involves data. In particular, combining data and visuals in the promotion of human rights enables advocates to...

The project is a network visualization of my Facebook friends – each one of the 2300 friends is represented as a node with size proportional to the number of messages exchanged between me and them....

Diagrammm: Beyond the Image Data visualization has become a modern tool of communication that reveals a power of data. With it help stories hidden in figures could be told in a clear and...

How can a conference facilitate the development of meaningful connections, both between and among the audience, the speakers, and their topics? Rather than assigning a specific time and place for...

This fast-paced, data visualization-themed game consists of 31 cards with 6 chart icons on each. There is one and exactly one identical chart icon on any two cards. It’s up to you to find the...

kepler.gl is a data-agnostic, high-performance web-based application for visual exploration of large-scale geolocation data sets. Built on top of deck.gl, kepler.gl can render millions of points...

My paper 'Information on different types of people for graphic communication, website and information designers' has been published on the Usability Geek website...

A common business question is "How does the percent of total for a category change over time?" Some ways that are typically used to visualize this data include a stacked area chart, stacked bar...

PhoenixMap, a visual analytics system to help analysts understand spatiotemporal distribution patterns and anomalies of many objects. It focuses on solving quantitatively visualizing the spatial...

Datawrapper now checks your colors, so you don’t have to.