High-profile mass shootings in San Bernardino and Colorado Springs grabbed national attention and sparked debate about how to reduce gun violence. But Congress still hasn’t passed a single bill...

What are investors looking for in companies and founders? The data looks at 890 U.S. startups that were founded from 2009-2015 and received at least $20 million in VC and other equity funding.

Artwork for Wired UK on UK's biggest spam service from January to August 2014

These animated virus trading cards show the real 3D structure of viruses. Using scientifically accurate structure data from the Worldwide Protein Databank, each trading card reveals the viral...

Artwork for Wired UK concerning the use of VPNs in the world

After one hundred years, how far have we pushed forward the limitation of human body? Are human races getting faster, higher and stronger? To answer this question, the project collect historical...

Heights of 13million buildings in England. Data is from LiDAR data & building outlines open data. The visualization uses vector map tiles (from Open Street Map basemaps), MapboxGL, Angular JS,...

From Afghan training camps to the Islamic State - this is the comprehensive map for 37 years of terror acts performed by various Islamist groups around the world. We track the story and roots of...

Data is everywhere. FlowingData helps everyone understand it, from different points of view.

Every job from every episode from Star Trek TOS-main, regular extras, and unnamed characters. Even the babysitters and waitresses.

The worst coral bleaching event in recorded history currently threatens reefs across the globe and scientists warn the situation may not improve anytime soon.The threat to corals around the world...

The Dalai Lama asked Paul Ekman and Stamen Design to design him an Atlas of Emotions. This online interactive project visualizes what science knows about emotions, emotional states, triggers,...

What do books look like without words?

Body mass index, from 1984 to 2014.

The ESA Star Mapper visualisation is an exploration of some central aspects of astrometric star catalogues, using data from ESA's Hipparcos mission. 

Holition partnered with innovative fashion app Grabble (known as 'Tinder' for Fashion), to develop an artistic real-time visual representation showing the vast amount of data Grabble receives in...

Anecdotally, aspiring musicians flock to Nashville. Portland has a vibrant food truck scene. Theater is rooted in New York City. Yet what about other cities? What is the creative fabric of...

Mass killings in the United States are most often carried out with guns, usually handguns, most of them obtained legally. There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and...

Objektivno was an internationally acclaimed project of Dnevnik, second largest newspaper in Slovenia, exploring journalism that bridged data, code, text and image. It appeared on the back page of...

Dress For Our Time, by award-winning artist and designer Helen Storey MBE RDI (London College of Fashion, UAL Centre for Sustainable Fashion) and creative agency Holition is a unique installation...

This poster explores the disciplines or professions of creators and theorists who marked the history of data visualization. In the 18th and 19th century, visualizing data is used for thinking...

A timeline showing the fall of one of Europe's most iconic financial institutions. 

Understanding the poverty situation and its many layers in London boroughs. This is a poster intended to be displayed in metro stations in the place where people wait. As users do not have much...

80 Minutes in a Locked Room is a personal influence map. I decided to tell a story about my adventures in a locked room maze. In the infographic, different moods and behaviours are represented...

This project is a small atlas with basic information about our country represented in different infographics using only two colors. We investigated general data about Mexico, as well as about each...

Designer Krisztina Szűcs visualizes the ‘scary factor’ of one of the most popular fairy tales

As temperatures rise and oceans warm, regions will face drastic changes and will be increasingly affected by climate hazards.

Over the past 40 years, we have changed from a world in which underweight prevalence was more than double that of obesity, to one in which more people are obese than underweight

While there are more people than ever on the NHS’s donor register, there are some body parts that people find it difficult to part with – even after death.

Recent fossil discoveries have allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolution of mammals from their humble, shrewlike ancestors to the extraordinairy variety of forms, including humans, that...