Our bodies are extraordinary. They contain elements that have a commercial value, megabytes of data, and trillions of cells, most of which aren't our own.

Intersections of major roads have been given nicknames like “mixing bowl,” “spaghetti junction,” and “knot”—invoking images of tangled messes, but there's beauty in the chaos. Applying colors...

Infographics are the key elements to shed light on the story, thus making Chinese hospital registration issue more clear and understandable to the audience. Hospital registration procedures has...

The last star that survives before the universe turns dark will very likely be a red dwarf. This video explains what makes red dwarfs special and why they might be humanity’s last resort for a new...

“We explore the relationship between life expectancy, access to doctors, and wealth. Overall the picture is that typically, wealthier nations have more doctors per person and a longer life...

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...

Looking at the impact of the grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park

Millennials continue to puzzle the general population. Many Boomers are still trying to pinpoint how millennials approach life. They are trying to understand how to impress millennial...

Unioncamere Lombardia is the association of the twelve public Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Crafts of Lombardy. Unioncamere publishes a report on industrial and manufacturing...

Over the course of the last thirty years, more than 7 million Colombians have left their homes and towns, looking for safety away from the conflict between the guerrillas, the Colombian armed...

Galileo's Impact On Modern Science According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called...

This interactive lets users explore the complicated dynamics of election demographics, adjusting the turnout and political leaning of different groups to swing states to the Democrats or the...

Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness in the world, impairing the vision of around 2.2 million people, of whom 1.2 million are irreversibly blind. It is a health problem in around...

As of today, 59 women have been to space. In honor of International Women’s Day, I used the upcoming Mapbox Studio dataset editor and Mapbox GL JS to visualize where each astronaut is from and more...

Effectively communicating climate change is a challenge. The animated climate spiral is a different way to show the observed changes and resonates with a broad audience. The original version...

The artwork shows the 40 most selling videogames in history. In the central part of the graph it is reported the five videogame companies with the greatest turnover. The games are arranged radially...

At the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), I've made dozens of infographics / data visualisations to present data from investigations, educational resources and research articles. Our main...

Cities on similar latitudes: Something I wanted to do for a long time. Vancouver is south from Berlin? Crazy.

This simulation uses a set of assumptions based on the results of the Republican primary up to April 2016.

The nature of the data being represented concerns migration patterns to Johannesburg from across all South African provinces as well as living patterns within the physical space of Johannesburg...

A look at the capital punishment in the state of Texas US.

Each number capable of factorization (2–101) is factorized to its primes. Each prime factor is represented by a ring of "leaves" around a center point colored with a light-to-dark gradient....

Wikiverse is galactic reimagining of Wikipedia with up to 250 thousand articles to explore and discover. In this miniverse, articles are turned into stars which naturally cluster by similarity....

One of the joys of working at the Guardian is that playfulness is very much “on brand.” We knew election results and delegate trackers would be everywhere this year (mostly using the same AP data),...

A visual and data analytic exploration of success in tennis: Uncovering the relationship between performance and popularity. The visualization shows the career paths of the currently 500 best...

Historically, presidential candidates as unpopular as Donald Trump faced decimation in the electoral college. But thanks to the increasing polarization of both parties and voters, that has become a...

Back on Planet Earth, we at Nominet have been looking for a way to visualise global internet use. The result is our map of the online world, an atlas redrawn according to the number of...

The electoral map is many shades of Republican and Democrat—and always shifting. Which states have moved to the middle, and which are slipping out of reach for the opposition party?

Among top-grossing films, which received the absolute worst reviews, relative to the amount of money it made? And where does Batman v Superman fall on this spectrum?

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...