The food we buy matters. As our food systems become increasingly complex, the food we choose to consume affects not only our own health, but also the environment, our ethical framework, the Earth's...

This visualisation shows the distribution of the 10,568,679 items on Wikipedia, sorted by type. It shows that Wikipedia describes 2,424,305 humans, 588,822 Chinese villages, 152,692 albums, and...

The ranking of most important companies in the world is calculated by Forbes through an algorithm that takes into account four values: sales, profits, assets and market values. The bars, into the...

RAW is an open web tool developed at the DensityDesign Research Lab (Politecnico di Milano) to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing d3.js library. Primarily conceived...

A comprehensive visualization about wealth distribution around the world. While 10% of the world population own about 85% of the global wealth, the poorest 50% get just 1% of it. The visualization...

The world of Game of Thrones represented as a transit map. The map incorporates important roads in the series into the routes.

"In flight" is a live data-driven interactive documentary created by Kiln for the Guardian to mark the centenary of commercial aviation. It combines a cutting-edge real-time interactive map of...

Everyone knows that American politics has become more polarised over the past quarter-century. In this motion infographic, the effect is shown visually—with troves of data, statistics and...

99 of the things that the Daily Mail thinks cause or cure cancer, using data from a crowd sourced index of Daily Mail articles.

Every second of your life you are under attack. Bacteria, viruses, spores and more living stuff wants to enter your body and use its resources for itself. The immune system is a powerful army...

In celebration of Arbor Day last April, we gave viewers the gift of a bird’s-eye view of the tree canopy in nine different cities. “I love the abstract patterns of cartography, and the idea of...

An animated graphical score of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Audio by Jay Bacal. Animation by Stephen Malinowski

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...

This is one of four posters in a series, representing Moscow Urban Forum on World Cities Summit 2014 in Singapore. Despite geographical and cultural differences, big cities all over the world...

A visualization of every game in the history of the NFL (American) football championship team, Seattle Seahawks.

This civic technology project visualizes taxi trip data from 2013, showing the activities of a single taxi on a single day. The original data include ~170 Million trips. Of these, 30 cab/days were...

Berlins Slogan was created by this mayor Klaus Wowereit: "Poor, but sexy!" But in the last years more and more founders came to Berlin. So many startups settled down in Berlin. This infographic...

How's the Italian football? What are the numbers of the system? An in depth look at the football economy through the rigorous study of Niccolò Donna, Gianfranco Teotino and Michele Uva. All served...

Carbon Visuals has created a four-minute film to help world leaders, industry experts, campaigners, scientists and the wider public understand the scale of emissions from fossil fuels. In...

Politicians are elected to serve in the Bundestag for four years. But not everybody is staying until his or her term’s end. The interactive graphic shows every case since the founding of the...

As has been recently documented by the press, one of the major challenges that CitiBike is facing is the rebalancing of their stations. As origins and destinations of CitiBike trips are not...

When the Los Angeles Dodgers sold for over $2 billion last year, the purchase price — which was 54 percent more than prevailing estimates — didn’t just elevate the fortunes of the team’s owners. It...

On the face of it, an acquisition, whether for patents, talent or anything in between can speak volumes about the direction a company intends to take. With social media’s most prominent players,...

A wall chart taking the data for the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil and creating a cohesive solution to present the data in wall chart format. This featured every game that span around the inner...

This piece of work is an interactive data visualisation of the percentage of trains from fifteen different train companies that were delayed over a four-year period. It is designed in a way that...

This interactive visualization supported the Center for Public Integrity's "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine" series, which exposed how eminent doctors and...

Little did Horace Walpole imagine, when he gave his book The Castle of Otranto the subtitle A Gothic Story, that he would be transforming a perfectly harmless word (meaning ‘in the style of...

This video imagines a future where Earth has been ravaged by wars, cyclones, food shortages, destructive weather and turned into areas of uninhabitable zones. And yet cities would still make bids...

The Swiss Public Value Atlas compares the public value generated by the top 50 companies. The ranking can be analyzed by 4 dimensions: Fulfillment of tasks, social cohesion, moral and quality of...

How the group of cyclists, known in the cycling world as peloton, went from a uniformly French, then European bunch, to a multicolored, multicultural, plurilingüistic mass later? The interactive...