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...

How generous are the top 50 S&P 500 companies' 401(k) plans? Use our tool to compare plans and calculate how much money you would save under each company's plan.

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...

This graphic-driven gatefold shows the sheer size and complexity of the brain. Researchers at Harvard and MIT provided National Geographic with 3-D models of a mouse brain at incredibly small...

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...

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...

After more than 40 years, Studs Terkel’s Working remains one of the best-known non-fiction books ever published. What’s truly remarkable is the fact that this is not a book about wars, politics or...

Winter 2013, China suffered large-scale invasion of haze, which is extremely harmful to human health. The project investigated the cause of haze in the Yangtze River Delta region. The visualization...

Capture the now with Kennedy. A new way to mark moments in time complete with surrounding context of the things happening around you. One tap and Kennedy will collect data about where you're...

This project maps war dead recoded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission during the First World War. It's an attempt to quantify the price of the conflict and equate the scale to a contemporary...

Every day, the Global Historical Climatology Network collects temperatures from 90,000 weather stations. Dating back as far as the late 1700's, the records provide an incredible source of insight...

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...

The first massive open online course, or MOOC, launched in September 2008 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Via the web, anyone could attend the class on learning theory, and 2,000 people...

‘Figure it Out’, or FIO, beautifully displays the time zones you work and play in. A minimal time zone site and chrome extension that allows you to add up to ten time zones of your choice,...

This visualization was created for the University of Copenhagen. The design relies on simplicity and functionality, combining the experience of reading the time with the new function of monitoring...

One of a series of 30 weekly spreads created for the G2 newspaper

"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...

We were curious to see what were some of the common and not so common trees planted in the five boroughs of New York City. While this visualizes trees which we personally love as an essential...

For the website biobasedeconomy.nl, we developed an interactive data visualization, containing infographics. This interactive infographic gives insight into the different biomass chains that are...

100 Years of Rock is an ambitious visualisation that displays a century’s worth of musical history. Lasting 33 seconds, the automated scrolling animation leads you through the many evolving genres...

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...

Journey with me... on a stationary bike. Several styles of indoor cycling classes are prevalent today; join me as I guide you through one of my typical classes, which I teach between bouts of...

The visualization returns a map of the thirty countries that receive more aids from the European Union. The size of the countries on the map are changed in proportion to the funds received....

A look at the world's food right now, with a focus on how much we produce, consume and waste every second.

Following the final drawing of World Cup 2014 participants last December, Bloomberg Sports assigned each national team a distinctive rating. BSports then simulated each match of the tournament over...

Formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications in 1989, Time Warner quickly became the world's largest media conglomerate, with divisions that include Warner Bros. Entertainment,...

The interactive election map shows every single vote cast in Berlin in the German Federal Election 2013. On the one hand it shows a unique image of the odd voting behavior in the German capital....

This interactive visualization is mainly aimed at the researchers and policy makers of two large Dutch medical research centers, AMC and VUmc. These centers recently started a large-scale research...

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...

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...