Researchers pinpoint the top 15 “Sleeping Beauties,” studies published years ago that are now the talk of the town

The woodpecker facts and systems to protect his head against the hits when this bird drills the wood. Fun project to my site mhinfographics published in Spanish also in visual744.

On the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we measure (for measure) 97 times his plays inspired us. He began writing plays by 1592, and they appear roughly in this order. He died on April 23, 1616,...

Discover how the European Commission is making a difference by reducing the human and environmental costs of air pollution. Six interactive visual segments are woven into a single narrative which...

Economist and data visualization and presentation skills specialist Jon Schwabish talks about data visualization, presentation skills, presentation design, open data, and technology.

Call it taxonomy, classification, even organization — it is what we use to make sense of almost everything around us. We put things in logical, labeled boxes that help us comprehend the world. The...

The Power Players is an interactive browser and data visualisation of the key stories from the Panama Papers leak. It was commissioned from Kiln by the International Consortium of Investigative...

The project investigates the problem of air pollution in modern megapolices. The main purpose was to tell about the influence of different urban systems on environment, their correlation and role...

During the 2016 Australian election, ABC News ran an interactive tool that helped voters see how their views compared to the candidates' policies. More than 1.3 million people used the tool during...

From less than 100 meters to 828 meters, heights of skyscrapers in the world has grown 8 times in the past century. This graphic tracks the tallest building built every year, detailing its...

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...

America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities — but usually take the weekends off.

Unioncamere Lombardia is the association of the twelve public Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Crafts of Lombardy. Unioncamere publishes a report on industrial and manufacturing...

From 1973 to 2015, my grandfather notes down all his bicycle rides in a diary. My aim is to give an overview of and insight in the biking history of my grandfather and the places he visited. The...

After some lengthy investigative work, I was leaked an internal report by Transport for London revealing a 121% increase in reports of rough sleeping on London’s night buses. But the numbers needed...

An analysis of all the games ever played between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Plotting climate data as a polar plot. 

A sankey diagram where connections between nodes are represented by goo.

One of the joys of working at the Guardian is that playfulness is very much “on brand.” We knew election results and delegate trackers would be everywhere this year (mostly using the same AP data),...

675 people have been shot and killed by police in 2016. This database is based on news reports, public records, social media and other sources.

The Mini Metros project can trace its origins to my futile attempt to make an iPhone app several years ago. Coding is not my forte, but I had fun designing mockups. One of the things I liked the...

This A2 fold-out poster was sent out to around 30,000 general practitioners (family doctors) in the UK, in the GP edition of The BMJ. It shows the UK guidance on cancer referral (produced by NICE)...

'Some jobs are much more labor intensive and dangerous than others, so it's important to consider what kind of workers’ compensation is available in your state. For this data visualization, we took...

Visualisingdata.com is an award-winning site providing readers with a rich variety of content that charts the development of the data visualisation field as well as profiling the professional...

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

This investigation of scientific p-values is anchored by an interactive graphic where users can give "p-hacking" a try on their own. These are tricky statistical concepts, made accessible to all...

Interactive poster was developed for a showcase exhibition in Zurich to get visitors to participate and create fun conversations. Based on the YAAY method for interactive visual data collection, we...

In this visualization you can investigate how the 146 million employed persons in 2014 were divided up between ~550 different occupations. The occupations are grouped and even subgrouped. Each grey...

These two infographics were part of a series of infographics I created for the book "Wedged" by Erik Fogg and Nathaniel Greene (available on Amazon, the abortion infographic is the only one...

These are two infographics. One shows that Google representatives attended White House meetings more than once a week, on average, from the beginning of Obama’s presidency through October 2015. The...