4.7 million Colombians live abroad. 400,000 of those who left have refugee status or are applying for it. They live in 45 countries worldwide. Credits:  Data Visualization Chief: Alejandro...

Minimal Maps is an ongoing project that explores how richly-detailed single subject maps can give us new imagery to understand our landscape. The data is accurate for the year 2014 and explores the...

Members put their codesign in common resources , both to share contacts and reach as many but above all to pool expertise of design trades and allow a common drafting and shared primordial...

The Public Theater has staged Shakespeare in the Park since 1962—one of New York City’s most beloved summer traditions. We were interested in visualizing a complex data set of productions,...

Given that every mark in a vector image adds a bit to the file, the size of a vector file is a good indication of its complicatedness or fussiness. So when designers talk about a design being...

Bike commuting throughout the city is often like this: cobbled together out of a bit of bike lane here, an unprotected shoulder there, a scrap of sharrow and some silent pleas that cars won't run...

This simulation shows how quickly 10 diseases, from more fatal to less fatal, could spread from one person to 100 unvaccinated people. http://caiweiyi.com/

A “unicorn” is every venture capitalist’s dream. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of funding a startup that surpasses a $1 billion pre-IPO valuation? While Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the...

To meet demand for food, fuel and wood, countries are snapping up property beyond their borders

This project is a recreation of the original Statistical Atlas of the United States with current data. Using similar styling, the data portrayed is publicly available and comes from government...

Lyra is an interactive environment that enables custom visualization design without writing any code. Graphical “marks” can be bound to data fields using property drop zones; dynamically...

By combining data, strategy, design and technology, CLEVERFRANKE creates tools that enable us to explore, understand and change the world to shape our future. @cleverfranke

Between January 1st and November 15th 2014 in Costa Rica, 7,957 earthquakes were recorded. That is an average of 25 a day, this is a visual analysis of that data.

The visualization shows the influence of major world languages. We selected the first 30 languages by number of books translated (translations from the language). The languages are ordered on the...

This infographic shows the market value of the ice cream industry in the world in 2015. The top consumers are shown for each category (Single Portion Dairy Ice Cream, Impulse Ice Cream, Retail...

Cartesian is the first Italian blog dedicated entirely to Information Design. The site's aim is to explore the subject in all its facets, increase visibility and attention to the matter, and...

See just how warmer temperatures and less precipitation have drastically altered the water situation in the Golden State since 2011. Published by the Wall Street Journal

I made this using 44 animations that are 9 frames each. That's 396 sketches total - probably the most complicated GIF I've made so far. I am a little sad that I wasn't able to show size properly...

Organised crime in Italy is current and urgent. The project, a visual analysis of organized crime in Northern Italy, aims to be a valuable tool to support the study of the phenomenon, providing to...

EagerEyes is Robert Kosara’s place to reflect on the world of information visualization and visual communication of data. The goal is to help digest things that are happening in the field and...

We live-scraped Twitter during the Great British Bake Off finale to see what the great British public had to say about the biggest show of the summer.

Some of the greatest reflections on society take place in film, through complex characters, often falling into familiar patterns called “Tropes”. Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer...

Skeptics of manmade climate change offer various natural causes to explain why the Earth has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. But can these account for the planet's rising temperature?This...

My goal is to explore new experiences around data consumption beyond the written and visual forms by taking advantage of music's temporal nature and capacity to alter one's mood. Topics will...

Fusion’s Take the Plunge charting tool shows the lifetime-income outcomes for various educational options. It might show you, for instance, that a female arts graduate with a degree from a public...

The Endangered Safari project contains all of the large African mammals along with juicy info like animal size, family, population trend, range, and IUCN threatened species status. To really dig...

A descriptive infographic informing the viewer of the negative effects on the human body when consuming too much sugar. We also state interesting facts and reveal how much sugar there are in...

Sociotope is a social media experiment made with WebGL. It visualizes the data you left in social networks in a way you possibly haven't seen before. Using motion as a metaphor for relevance,...

HALO is a 3-dimensional object that maps complex data flows into an aggregate, and intuitive data picture. It is an intelligent digital object who’s colour, form and behavioural characteristics...