As of autumn 2015 there are 870 Nobel Prize laureates, each one a well known and celebrated individual. But it is a less known fact that every year the Nobel Committee selects several hundred...

What lobbyist are you? This infographic prompts the user to answer questions about climate and energy policy and identify to an organization (NGO, company or professional organization) who shares...

Gender pay gap for US employees - published by WSJ.

The IBM Watson News Explorer uses the AlchemyData News API to automatically construct a news information network and present large volumes of news results in an understandable fashion. It uses...

Interactive website to explore the evolution of world population against major historical events.

What counts gets counted: 6 years of numbers in radio news

Alberto Cairo's weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism

The project aims to raise awareness about the growing number of war victims in a continent too often forgotten. Data on armed conflicts in Africa since 1900 have been collected and made available...

A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names.

Jeff Bezos is now in the 5th spot on world’s wealthiest people list. But he was born poor. He wanted to start a business right after college but didn’t. So how did he start?

The Haute Route is the pinnacle of amateur stage riding. Set on closed roads over extremely challenging mountainous routes, it also boasts pro-level timing and support.

A large scale poster mapping the football grounds of the teams in the 2015/16 English professional football leagues. The poster illustrates a fascinating juxtaposition of the playing surface...

Does every female character in Disney / Pixar movies have basically the same face?

Colorful wandering paths emerge when examining the numbers of well known mathematical constants and irrational numbers like pi, e, the golden ratio, and others. Starting at a single point, a...

Historically, presidential candidates as unpopular as Donald Trump faced decimation in the electoral college. But thanks to the increasing polarization of both parties and voters, that has become a...

#MakeoverMonday is a social experiment run by Andy Kriebel and Andy Cotgreave. Each week Andy Kriebel shares a foreign data set and asks others to turn it into a more meaningful visualisation. The...

Xavi Bou focuses on birds, his great passion, in order to capture in a single time frame, the shapes they generate when flying, making visible the invisible. Unlike other motion analysis...

Our collaboration tool enables audiences at live events to brainstorm, share ideas and respond to presentations in real time. Stimulating collaborative thought, Talkviz engages audiences and...

It's an enhancement of Jim Unwin's creation from 2009. He actually added a completely new creature - the Mermahuataur, a mix of Human, Narwhal and Bull. A lot of people took him up on that and...

'The Missing Migrants Map' is the visual representation of all the incidents recorded by "The Missing Migrants Project". This visualization is based on the data tracked by the "Missing Migrants...

WTF Vizualizations publishes infographics and dataviz that make no sense, together with a Twitter community analysing why.

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...

An interactive analysis revealing how the Star Wars trailers frequently repeat scenes while parsing out bits of new material to generate attention.

On the 10 of January the great musician David Bowie died. Several web portals published the lists of the critics favorite songs. So 3 very different in many ways (political views, social aspects...

When a company or government agency suffers a data breach, the number of records they say were lost are often preliminary estimates, whether they say so or not. Typically, the investigation has...

This comprehensive infographic manual uses infographics and visualizations to reinterpret William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”. It deciphers existing content using the lens of...

By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.

I created a series about some of the major impacts of global warming that I witnessed in Washington State this summer, using scientific data to show how the drought is devastating the...

This tool presents biological data for all 55 distinct salmon populations found in the Skeena River watershed, as well as maps of current human and environmental pressures on freshwater and...

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura on the production, export and consumption of tea in the world from 2008 to 2013. Source: Fao Food and Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations