Hurricane Katrina was the United States’s most costly and destructive weather disaster in recent history, but how does it compare with other events? @LazaroGamio @DeniseDSLu

The annual number of new cancer cases worldwide is predicted to increase from 14 million in 2012 to almost 22 million in 2030 due to population growth and aging alone. But each country has...

The increasing amount of data overloading us on a daily basis requires us to be more selective in how we divide our attention. Being able to quickly assess what information is relevant to you...

Final projection: Find out who was leading the race in your constituency, according to the final polls. The map shows which party was expected to win each of the 650 seats, which might change...

Biovotion is a multi-award winning non-invasive health monitoring device. It defines the next generation physiological monitoring platform which allows accurate, truly wearable and continuous...

This project is a recreation of the original Statistical Atlas of the United States with current data. Using similar styling, the data portrayed is publicly available and comes from government...

What someone interprets when you say "Probably"

Since October 2009, health care organizations and their business partners have reported 1,364 large-scale data breaches, each affecting at least 500 people, to the U.S. Department of Health and...

In the 2014/15 concert season programme, the »Symphonieorchestra des Bayerischen Rundfunks« offers a peek behind the curtain. Here is a selection of the 21 infographics. Formula One in the concert...

Spread artwork for Wired US Infoporn section (August 2015 Issue). The map shows hurricanes in America since 1900, color-coded according to category and power.   Source: NOAA

A representation of the Solar System in perfect scale: the moon is one pixel, the sun, the planets and the space between them, all in correct scale.

Loopie uses people's GPS data to create beautiful and personalised printed artwork. Each print is an accurate but artistic visualisation of their ride or run and unique to them. Two graphic...

Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual...

This visualisation follows the text from the epic of Finland, the Kalevala, and visualises the paths of the heroes from evil to good.

The visualization shows the influence of major world languages. We selected the first 30 languages by number of books translated (translations from the language). The languages are ordered on the...

This interactive tool lets the user compare different large scale objects to the size of the blue whale to better grasp the scale of this majestic animal. Other visualisations include the whale's...

In May, the WSJ illustrated the differences in song preferences in New York by using data from e-jukeboxes. But what if we were to zoom that lens onto the rest of the country? Published by...

We created a graphic that details the dresses worn by every actress who has won (and accepted) the Best Actress Academy Award since 1929. Using photographic sources, we researched and illustrated...

Find, compare and share the latest OECD data: charts, maps, tables and related publications …

The art and science of digital storytelling from the Media Innovation Program at Northeastern University @NU_CAMD

Friends in Space has been the first social network to extend beyond Earth; a 6 months-long open window to make new friends from all over the world and join astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in her...

A recent Naked Data newsletter pointed me to this article on Wikipedia which gives a list of when the world was predicted to end throughout recorded history. It is a timeline of when the world...

Twelve movements powered by social media that changed the 21st century

Maps Of Street Layouts Colored By Orientation

Fusion’s Take the Plunge charting tool shows the lifetime-income outcomes for various educational options. It might show you, for instance, that a female arts graduate with a degree from a public...

This data-driven live wallpaper displays the battery, wireless signal and notifications in a simple wallpaper visualization. Published by Google Creative Lab. http://www.mikkelkoser.com/

This piece of data visualization aims to deconstruct and represent the emigration flow of Spain between the years of 2008 and 2013. The system that I created to visualize the total number...

An infographic based on a survey of fears that I conducted, which focuses on the correlation of the age the fear began, how severe it is, and what type of fear it is. It also explores whether...

We have developed a system that allows a variety of users, from the Studio Librarian to the HR Partner or the Managing Partner of our architectural practice to access relevant, attractive and clear...

What kind of names do we see every day in our cities and villages throughout life?