“Flights to Milan” visualizes the daily flights to Milan from all worldwide cities. Expo 2015 will be hosted in Milan, Italy. It is important to show how the city is connected to the rest of the...

An infographic about the implementation of the broad band all over the territory of Italy. The infographic focuses on the technology involved and its features, on the digital divide across various...

A visualization of the number pi represented as a reflective line graph and color coded based on the sequence of the prime numbers. The image is painted on a wall on the busy corner of Grand St and...

In our globalizing world, food is increasingly difficult to track. Knowing where our food comes from is important, since it can carry harmful pathogens. Visualizing data from the World Health...

After Babylon is a Data Visualization project developed during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano. Each team was assigned a structured dataset in table format about a topic and was...

Understand Formula 1 better through data. Review all Grand Prix, Drivers, Circuits and Teams from 1950 to now.

100 Years of Rock is an ambitious visualisation that displays a century’s worth of musical history. Lasting 33 seconds, the automated scrolling animation leads you through the many evolving genres...

Italians often complain about their politicians being too old and detached. But are they really? The project allows users to explore and find out the ages of Italian Parliament members, viewing...

An interactive data visualization of constitutions around the world. The project shows 225 years of new constitutions, amendments and other events, using data from the Comparative Constitutions...

How do creatives – composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers – find the time to produce their opus? Mason Currey investigated the rigid Daily Rituals that hundreds of creatives...

This infographic was installed inside the classroom at PC Ninja. It is used to teach students how the internet works.

How the group of cyclists, known in the cycling world as peloton, went from a uniformly French, then European bunch, to a multicolored, multicultural, plurilingüistic mass later? The interactive...

'What makes you tick' is a multimedia, interactive feature to explain how your biological clock affects the body’s natural rhythm and when disturbed can lead to serious consequences. The body clock...

In celebration of Arbor Day last April, we gave viewers the gift of a bird’s-eye view of the tree canopy in nine different cities. “I love the abstract patterns of cartography, and the idea of...

NHS Winter was an innovative cross-platform BBC News project that provided insight and context to the debate around pressures in UK emergency care. The backbone of the project was an online weekly...

This video imagines a future where Earth has been ravaged by wars, cyclones, food shortages, destructive weather and turned into areas of uninhabitable zones. And yet cities would still make bids...

What happens to a woman’s body during pregnancy? This exceptionally vertical magazine page spread shows it all, addressing several topics, head to toe. The page is part of a special series of...

The physical charts are an attempt to make data and data visualisations legible to ordinary people in their daily lives. In response to the increasing sophistication of data visualisations and the...

RAW is an open web tool developed at the DensityDesign Research Lab (Politecnico di Milano) to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing d3.js library. Primarily conceived...

Delve into 20 years’ worth of UK export and import data to discover some surprising stories about the UK’s trade relations with the rest of the world.

The ranking of most important companies in the world is calculated by Forbes through an algorithm that takes into account four values: sales, profits, assets and market values. The bars, into the...

99 of the things that the Daily Mail thinks cause or cure cancer, using data from a crowd sourced index of Daily Mail articles.

‘Figure it Out’, or FIO, beautifully displays the time zones you work and play in. A minimal time zone site and chrome extension that allows you to add up to ten time zones of your choice,...

In schemas for Ulysses, Joyce describes the compositional technique behind the “Sirens” episode as including the “eight regular parts of a fuga per canonem,” later reworded to a “fugue with all...

A comparison between the two sports’ histories skiing and snowboarding.

A comprehensive guide to a very complicated show. HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones returns to screens Sunday for season 4 to titillate viewers with gratuitous nudity, violence and Peter Dinklage....

Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East, carried out by Northwestern University in Qatar with the collaboration and support of Doha Film Institute, is an interactive tool that explores not only...

The visualization returns a map of the thirty countries that receive more aids from the European Union. The size of the countries on the map are changed in proportion to the funds received....

What music do people listen to? How does their taste change with time? Where do new music styles come from? A.Track.Tion is a data visualisation aimed at shedding light on these deep and...

An animated graphical score of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Audio by Jay Bacal. Animation by Stephen Malinowski