Anecdotally, aspiring musicians flock to Nashville. Portland has a vibrant food truck scene. Theater is rooted in New York City. Yet what about other cities? What is the creative fabric of...

How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...

Since the retirement of Nasa’s Space Shuttle in 2011, Soyuz has been the sole means of transportation of crew members to the International Space Station to this day (2016). This graphic attempts to...

Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.

'The Missing Migrants Map' is the visual representation of all the incidents recorded by "The Missing Migrants Project". This visualization is based on the data tracked by the "Missing Migrants...

A tool designed to help America's 3 million breast cancer survivors decide their course of future treatment with as little stress as possible.

Choosing a university is an issue that every Russian family finds itself facing at some point. This analysis of the higher education landscape over the past few years might be helpful in making...

Charting miles of road and bike path in NYC.

How music taste evolved - every top 5 song, from 1958-2016. 

After a bitterly contested Australian election, the returned Government of Malcolm Turnbull faces the prospect of negotiating with various blocs of other parties in order to pass its agenda through...

In July 2016, the BBC asked 177 film critics from 36 countries around the world to list their 10 favourite films of the century so far. Here are the top 100* films by critical consensus, analysed...

Timescapes is a series of photographs and videos that document the patterns and algorithms that define places. This project uses "slit-scanning," wherein a photo medium is exposed in a single...

QS Best Student Cities is an annual index assessing cities in five key categories: university rankings, student mix, desirability, employer activity and affordability. This infographic reports the...

All the national food days in the United States. 

Information visualization has traditionally limited itself to 2D representations, primarily due to the prevalence of 2D displays. While techniques that utilize immersive environments, such as...

What do Uber, Blue Apron, Classpass, Deliveroo, and Ticketmaster all have in common? They are all apart of the On-Demand Ecosystem --a model built on instant gratification. Since 1976, 673...

At Avodato we have been collecting data about how the Internet is interconnected during the last months to do some basic data exploration and create some basic visualizations about how the internet...

Infographics are everywhere, but what made them so successful? This infographic exposes the science behind the boom.

Technology is moving forward at such a rapid rate, that there are going to be unthinkable changes that will take place in the near future. The following interactive infographic will give you a...

Welcome to the Sage Project, a new platform where design and technology come together to create the food labels we’ve always wanted — smart, simple, and personalized.

After Amelia and Oliver have yet again topped the list of most popular baby names in England and Wales, we look at how other names are faring. While Mia and Ella were gaining fans, there were...

Interactive neural network widget visualises outcomes of machine learning according to different parameters.

Graphically exploring the fluctuations of success across the film careers of a selection of actors and directors

Narration, even fictional, contains a network of interacting characters. Constituting a well defined corpus, the eleven Shakespearean tragedies can easily be compared by visualising how the...

Cities in Europe – Facts and figures on cities and urban areas The publication ‘Cities in Europe’ contains 13 infographics that show facts and figures on recent urban developments in the context...

Artwork for "La Lettura". Data extraction by ItaliaNLP Lab. The visualization shows the most frequent terms and their proximity in Svetlana Alexievich's books. For each book are indicated the 10...

This design is one of my course assignments, according to the computer query some information about the recycling of materials, analyzed and simplified, combined with some illustrations design...

This is a story of how harmless choices can make a harmful world.

The election forecast is FiveThirtyEight's signature interactive project. The state of the 2016 general election, both nationally and in ever state, is captured in an extensive series of...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain activity in seven people while they listened to more than 2 hours of stories from The Moth Radio Hour. This data was used...