The Graphic Continuum is our view of the many different types of visualizations available to us when we encode and present data. We’ve plotted nearly 90 different graphics across five main...

The Interactive Scientific Poster „Dynamic Planet” was designed and developed for the exhibition „Focus Earth” of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. One of the main...

The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps below show number...

Datavizproject.com is a comprehensive archive of data visualizations. The website presents all relevant and popular data visualizations, so you can find the right visualization and get inspired how...

Over 30,000 Americans die each year from guns. But who are they, and how do they die? This interactive walks users through the demographics of America's gun death epidemic, and its often surprising...

The election forecast is FiveThirtyEight's signature interactive project. The state of the 2016 general election, both nationally and in ever state, is captured in an extensive series of...

A comprehensive guide to a very complicated show. HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones returns to screens Sunday for season 4 to titillate viewers with gratuitous nudity, violence and Peter Dinklage....

This map shows in a single image the people who lost their lives as they tried to reach European shores from 2005 to 2015. These men, women, and children were fleeing conflict and instability in...

Are all selfies taken by young people? Do men take many selfies? Are we all trying to copy celebrities in choosing how we represent ourselves? Are there any significant differences between selfies...

Chartable is a blog written by people who work at Datawrapper, a charting tool for journalists. Together with our readers, we explore how to create better charts and maps: What to consider when...

To celebrate Starbucks’ first ever store in Italy, the Starbucks Reserve Roastery Milan in Piazza Cordusio, Accurat designed a massive floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall visual representation of...

Over 8000 satellites belonging to 70+ nations have been launched into the Earth’s orbit since the first Sputnik. We commemorate 60 years of space exploration with an interactive 3D-map of every...

In partnership with Future Cities Catapult, After the Flood turned London's boroughs into a choropleth - or series of shaded cells - that can contain numerous types of data more effectively than a...

The Swiss Post recently presented various information and resources on e-commerce. The scrollable microsite conveys the notion of e-commerce being more than just an online shop. Interdisciplinary...

The theory of evolution explains how the enormous variety of life could come into existence. How it is possible for primitive life forms to spawn the millions of different creatures, that exist...

For the first time in several decades, the world is becoming less democratic, even as more countries hold elections. Bloomberg compiled and analyzed data from organizations that monitor the health...

Something important you'll notice: as more outside groups get involved in the war, each escalates by backing their side, then a rival will also get involved to back the other side. So what you have...

Dataseed is an open platform for interactive data visualisation and analysis, it offers a simple way to create multi-dimensional data-cube visualisations. It takes just a few minutes to upload a...

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...

How a piece of trash can travel from land to Henderson Island, an uninhabited, remote island in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean.

The visualisation explores how equal citizens of different countries are treated in terms of travelling.

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death all over the world. In Italy smoking cause the death of c.a 83.000 people every year. Nowdays, thanks to social advertising, everybody knows that...

BBC Knowledge commissioned Territory Studio (territorystudio.com) to produce an animated film on the subject of DNA. Three minutes is a short time to explore a subject where most doctorates only...

The project is an animation that illustrates a research where scientists have been able to create a very accurate estimate of the total number of trees in the world. This animation illustrates the...

"Histography" is an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015. The site draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new...

Do you remember playing with the coins of your parents and the journeys they spoke of? Now you have the chance to do the same thing again, but this time with a lot more coins belonging to one of...

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...

In 2008, the Australian government announced an “education revolution” -- a fundamental overhaul of a school funding system that had been in place in essence since 1974. Billions were poured into...