Since 1954, the Indian government has been conferring its highest honours — from the venerable Padma Shri to the exclusive Bharat Ratna — on bureaucrats, artists, scientists, engineers, sporting...

This print is an infographic documenting the loves of Marilyn Monroe, it shows where Marilyn met her love, what his occupation it was, what year they met and what type of relationship it was. This...

The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. When the effects of the principle are observed, it is known as the Goldilocks...

After Novak Djoković , the best-known portrait of the Western Balkans unfortunately remains mass unemployment. Especially among young people.

This is a map showing over five years of drought data (285 weeks, combined into a single view) in the United States. The dots are proportionally sized by the amount of time over the past five...

Jeff Bezos is now in the 5th spot on world’s wealthiest people list. But he was born poor. He wanted to start a business right after college but didn’t. So how did he start?

Choice and chance is a 3D visualization that takes the viewer through Pulse nightclub on the night a shooter opened fire inside the building, killing 49 people. Choice and chance highlights the...

A century ago The Netherlands counted 6.5 million inhabitants. On March 21st of this year that number officially reached a total of no less than 17 million. That same day we published a combination...

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?

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...

Elementary school: The folded leaflet shows the educational pathways of pupils between kindergarten and secondary school level II between 2001 and 2014. A distinction is drawn between different...

One of the biggest challenges in comparing the best modern-day players to those of previous eras is the changes in the the way the game is played. Season length, roster size, and schedule strength...

China’s rapid economic growth has been the envy of the world for two decades

By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.

This project was inspired by Dear-Data.com, a wonderful collaboration between Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. We, Jeffrey Shaffer and Andy Kriebel, decided to follow in their footsteps and...

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....

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...

What counts gets counted: 6 years of numbers in radio news

At the world's largest classical music festival, the work of female composers will comprise only 4 per cent of the programme. But as this data visualisation shows, female composers often featured...

In almost every urban area on every continent around the world, pigeons solemnly blend into the cityscape aesthetic. Usurping sidewalks and parks in their massive unflattering flocks, pigeons are...

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...

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...

Heights of 13million buildings in England. Data is from LiDAR data & building outlines open data. The visualization uses vector map tiles (from Open Street Map basemaps), MapboxGL, Angular JS,...

Think Game of Thrones is complicated? Try the royal houses of Europe! Starting with Charlemagne, this poster includes the monarchs of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Spain, France, the...

GENDER GDP/GAP attempts to communicate the stark contrast between the economic dynamism of world’s richest countries’ and the unequal political representation that has characterised it, since 1960.

Economist and data visualization and presentation skills specialist Jon Schwabish talks about data visualization, presentation skills, presentation design, open data, and technology.

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The artwork shows the satellites launched from 2003 to 2015. It represents the type of institutions that were focused on projects and the nation that financed them. On the left it is shown the...

We have become the largest producers of data in history. Almost every click online, each swipe on our tablets and each tap on our smartphone produces a data point in a virtual repository. According...

As the fortunes of the 2016 US presidential candidates rise and fall throughout the campaign, so does the amount of conversation about them on Twitter. Below is an interactive graphic that allows...