What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface. Human light...

A series of visualizations on the history of the D.C. punk band Fugazi, produced first as a newsprint fanzine, and then as large format prints for an exhibition. Using data the band themselves...

This special project is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the first and only flight of the spaceship "Buran". The analysis of the flight goes into detail about the most difficult stages of the...

China's emergence as a global power is likely to be the most consequential factor in twenty-first-century international politics. Yet the nature of Chinese power is poorly understood. Its...

“Eyes” is an interactive biometric data art that transforms human iris data into musical sound and 3D animated images. The idea is to allow the audience to explore their own identities through...

Intel asked us to devise a permanent experiential digital installation in the lobby of its headquarters at Robert Noyce Building in California. Enter The Wonderwall. Designed with living data at...

The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...

For a decade, the Pew Research Center has rigorously tracked restrictions on religion around the world — both those imposed by governments, as well as hostilities committed by individuals and...

My graduate thesis was focused on how urban dataviz can be used to investigate the relationship between people’s perception of phenomena happening in cities, and data collected about them. I chose...

This stunning piece of digital journalism is the result of a successful collaboration between the ABC's Tokyo bureau and the Story Lab team here in Australia. Super Kamiokande is a giant science...

Our main aim was to visualise the Test Ride experience digitally real-time integrating our Client’s Electric Vehicle API, creating personalised Data Visualisation for each Rider. We were invited...

A series of maps explain how President Assad’s military – backed by Russian warplanes – have been waging a harsh campaign against an array of rebel factions in Syria’s bloody conflict. The...

The Strait of Hormuz is the highway for nearly a fifth of the world’s oil. But it’s located in the volatile region of the Middle East. Subsequently tankers using the route have been attacked, most...

Nigeria’s dry season is tinderbox for farming land. If current patterns persist, violence is likely to erupt between farmers and cattle herders. One in search of water, the other in keeping their...

MorphCharts are composed of one or more related visualizations from a dataset, which smoothly transition between views. These transitions allow a user to maintain context while exploring multiple...

With the collapse of investment bank, Lehman Brothers, the 2008 Financial Crisis became full blown economic downturn which eventually led to the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression of...

This map visualizes the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the solar system. This includes everything we know of that’s over 10km in diameter - about 10000 asteroids - as well as 8000...

During Russia's centuries‑long history, its ethnic composition has changed repeatedly. At the moment, there are over 190 ethnic groups in Russia who speak 150 languages belonging to 13 language...

Winds circulate around the globe, forming patterns of gigantic proportions. These patterns become part of human culture and are reflected in our architecture. By orienting on the direction of...

The world’s population is getting older. Japan is on the forefront of this demographic trend that will affect Germany, China and Italy in coming years. This piece explains which countries are...

In 2017, over two million traffic stops occurred in Illinois. Each time an Illinois resident was pulled over, the enforcement officer was required to record the details of the traffic stop,...

This visual exploration looks into the most common questions that people ask on Google to better understand the often weird and mysterious behavior of (our) cats and dogs. What “strange” behavior...

IBM Technology Garden is a realtime installation bringing Wimbledon tennis Championships data to life. Data from match and player statistics, AI video highlights, weather forecasts, cyber security...

The intention of this visualization was to give music a new dimension and perspective by making it pleasing to the eye as much as it is to the ear. The Infernal Dance is a part of the Firebird...

Plotparade.com is an experimental chart creator tool that lets you create beautiful, unusual looking infographics from simple datasets. It offers a handful of design templates: pick one, copy and...

‘Visualizing Yemen's Invisible War’ is a multimedia special feature that explores the horrific consequences of US support for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, using first-hand accounts from...

This graphic was one piece of an investigative project by Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica that uncovered how dozens of police agencies in America are making rape cases look as if they are solved...

The seas cover 71% of the Earth and are home to the vast majority of living things on the planet. Water temperatures are rising. In a five part series, Reuters looks at the implications of the...

Only a handful of batsmen over the years have reached the 10,000 run milestone in limited overs international cricket. This interactive charts out how one of the modern greats, Virat Kohli, got...

How has the UK – cradle of the industrial revolution – nearly ended its reliance on coal? Carbon Brief tells this story of unprecedented change in a scrolling graphical narrative that maps every...