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...

The interactive chart depicts every goal in all World Cup football games by minute, whether from open play, a penalty or an own goal (including extra time). Filters let one drill down by country,...

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...

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...

In advance of the 86th Academy Awards, Beutler Ink created a poster commemorating each of the past Best Picture winners. The list includes those certified classics you’ve seen a million times—like...

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...

An interactive tool to help you find the right meeting times with people around the world, the World Chat Clock visualizes for the overlay of office and stretch hours between cities. When left...

Looks at bike sharing as being one of the biggest innovations to transportation and culture in the last 10 years by showing its' global density.

The BBC commissioned TellyJuice to create a short explainer film about week by week Pregnancy, in a clear and concise yet informative style. The film needed to cover fertilisation through to the...

Displayed on touchscreens and mobiles at HP Discover Las Vegas, HP What Matters uses data visualization to showcase the results of a survey of 3 500 IT executives.

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...

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...

'First World War' is an ambitious interactive experience about World War I, created by Kiln in partnership with the Guardian's multimedia team to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the...

Delve into 20 years’ worth of UK export and import data to discover some surprising stories about the UK’s trade relations with the rest of the world.

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...

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...

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...

After Babylon is a Data Visualization project developed during the Density Design course at Politecnico di Milano. Each team was assigned a structured dataset in table format about a topic and was...

The Science of Jogging: How To Run Better?' is about the quality and habits of running, analyzed from an exclusively Swiss perspective, and mapping the amounts of runners and their average...

Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever. I decided...

“Flights to Milan” visualizes the daily flights to Milan from all worldwide cities. Expo 2015 will be hosted in Milan, Italy. It is important to show how the city is connected to the rest of the...

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

Data Views are self-contained chart experiences that are created closely with Bloomberg View—the opinion section of Bloomberg News. The impetus behind Data View was a hope to provide clear and...

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...

Are you past your prime? To explore this question, we plotted the lives of 177 creative thinkers and the ages at which they each completed one notable work, discovery, or product launch. Our...

Gender Map is a dynamic representation of how many women are found in boardrooms across the world, showing the discrepancies that still exist in the highest echelons of business. Gender Map renders...

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

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...

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...

With five different data sets from three different sources we can get a sense of how Manhattan's at work and at home populations change throughout the day to create a breathing city.