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...

Starmap of Nobel Prize is designed to illustrate 113 years history of the Noble Prize. We put all Noble Prize winner's details into our data base, then use data mining and visualization technology...

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...

Italians often complain about their politicians being too old and detached. But are they really? The project allows users to explore and find out the ages of Italian Parliament members, viewing...

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,...

Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East, carried out by Northwestern University in Qatar with the collaboration and support of Doha Film Institute, is an interactive tool that explores not only...

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....

Before his downfall, former security chief Zhou Yongkang was among the most powerful and feared officials in China, a hardliner who oversaw spending on domestic security outstrip the defense...

NHS Winter was an innovative cross-platform BBC News project that provided insight and context to the debate around pressures in UK emergency care. The backbone of the project was an online weekly...

This visualization analyzes the 20 most popular stations in San Francisco in four different areas, and in doing so, it creates a more detailed, nuanced and complex image of the Bay Area Bike Share...

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