How does your region perform when it comes to education, environment, safety and other topics important to your well-being? This interactive site allows you to measure well-being in your region and...

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...

The Graphic Continuum is our view of the many different types of visualizations available to us when we encode and present data. We’ve plotted nearly 90 different graphics across five main...

For the website biobasedeconomy.nl, we developed an interactive data visualization, containing infographics. This interactive infographic gives insight into the different biomass chains that are...

In 2012 I published a 6-panel infographic explaining the complexities of the Iranian internet. Today, more than ever, we know that censorship is not just happening in countries with oppressive...

Capture the now with Kennedy. A new way to mark moments in time complete with surrounding context of the things happening around you. One tap and Kennedy will collect data about where you're...

Displayed on touchscreens and mobiles at HP Discover Las Vegas, HP What Matters uses data visualization to showcase the results of a survey of 3 500 IT executives.

Data Views are self-contained chart experiences that are created closely with Bloomberg View—the opinion section of Bloomberg News. The impetus behind Data View was a hope to provide clear and...

Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever. I decided...

Are all selfies taken by young people? Do men take many selfies? Are we all trying to copy celebrities in choosing how we represent ourselves? Are there any significant differences between selfies...

This civic technology project visualizes taxi trip data from 2013, showing the activities of a single taxi on a single day. The original data include ~170 Million trips. Of these, 30 cab/days were...

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...

After the disappearance of Flight 370, readers had a hard time understanding how difficult the search for plane's black box would be. This graphic shows just how challenging the search is.

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

An infographic on heat waves and snow storms in 35 cities around the globe, by Timm Kekeritz. Statistics on weather are everywhere: on TV, in newspapers, on our mobile phones. But weather is more...

‘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,...

The food we buy matters. As our food systems become increasingly complex, the food we choose to consume affects not only our own health, but also the environment, our ethical framework, the Earth's...

This project maps war dead recoded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission during the First World War. It's an attempt to quantify the price of the conflict and equate the scale to a contemporary...

Our interactive tool built for the Unesco Institute for Statistics as part of the International Women’s Day and centered on the theme “Equality for women is progress for all” helps visualize the...

Working with technologist Ekene Ijeoma, we created an interactive experience that illuminates where and when refugees emigrate, as well as the complex stories of political, social and economic...

A look at the world's food right now, with a focus on how much we produce, consume and waste every second.

Planet Earth is this solid thing you are standing on right now. In your everyday life you don't really waste a thought about how amazing this is. A giant, ancient, hot rock. How did it come...

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....

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...