When Formula One began in 1950, cars were designed purely for speed and crash helmets were not compulsory. The sport was both new, and deadly, with 11 driver fatalities in the first...
There is something wrong with the global financial system.
While that idea is widely shared since the 2008 crisis, we still don’t fully understand what needs to be changed, and what we can...
Information is Beautiful Studio has championed the use of data visualization and information design to explore new directions in storytelling with data.
The project is an animation that illustrates a research where scientists have been able to create a very accurate estimate of the total number of trees in the world. This animation illustrates the...
Motion infographic based around the Battle of Stalingrad, showing the causes of the Red Army's victory.
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The Homicide Monitor is the most comprehensive publicly available dataset on murder in the world. It is a data-driven data visualization tool designed to show the distribution, dimensions and...
Biovotion is a multi-award winning non-invasive health monitoring device. It defines the next generation physiological monitoring platform which allows accurate, truly wearable and continuous...
The project is a visual analysis of the letters written by Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theodorus ("Theo") between 1873 and 1890.
For each letter an automatic linguistic extraction has...
China's imports overall are down by 14.6% over 2015. Find out what happens if this decline continues for the rest of the year - or worsens - and how that loss compares to each country's...
Not all markets are the same, nor are individuals. TNS took a comparative look at the four personas of the connected consumer in the UK and China for our 2014 Connected Life campaign, showing that...
As a companion piece to our static Oscar Dresses infographic, we created a larger interactive piece that looked at all the dresses female Hollywood icons had worn to the Academy Awards. The move to...
The world will not end hunger until girls and women are empowered. Empowerment relies on annual data to track the issues that matter most. The United Nations has defined a set of 52 indicators...
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...
The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones VentureSource are tracking venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. See how the club has expanded since the project began in January 2014...
Every day since Nov. 17, 2014, ProPublica has been testing whether the homepages of international news organizations are accessible to browsers inside China. Of the 18 in our test, 3 are...
Posters exploring a selection of data on life in Geneva: what paths do people follow? How much activity is there in each city district? How much at night?
Although Lightyear.fm has radiowaves reaching over 100 lightyears into space, due to the Inverse Square Law of Propagation, any terrestrial radio broadcast would become nothing but background...
Mirador is a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets. It enables users to discover correlation patterns and derive new hypotheses from the data.
For many of us in Western developed countries, the internet is ubiquitous and part of almost everything we do. What about in emerging countries? We picked 8 major emerging countries to show the...
Hurricane Katrina was the United States’s most costly and destructive weather disaster in recent history, but how does it compare with other events?
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Being a journalist can be dangerous. One journalist is killed a week on average for doing their job of bringing news and information to the public. Many more suffer other kinds of attacks, threats,...
How many guests are travelling, checking in or staying at AirBnB accommodations today? Explore today's activity by navigating around an interactive globe.
This infographic shows the speed, depth and scale of Russian military diesel-electric submarines, nuclear-powered ballistic missile subs, and nuclear-powered attack subs. Only active submarines are...
Many of the economic trends that have defined countries’ fortunes over the past year are especially striking when seen visually—how in the U.S., for example, unemployment declined, or how, in...