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...
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,...
Colorful wandering paths emerge when examining the numbers of well known mathematical constants and irrational numbers like pi, e, the golden ratio, and others. Starting at a single point, a...
The authors scanned data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey—which covers 3.5 million households—to find out how people are pairing up.
An historical overview on the visualization of data and information. Visualization is a language that could be defined as almost universal, something that makes it possible to translate data and...
"Pluto comes into focus" was a creative, interactive story that aimed to showcase scientific discovery at the edges of our solar system in real time.
Until very recently the best images we had...
These are two infographics. One shows that Google representatives attended White House meetings more than once a week, on average, from the beginning of Obama’s presidency through October 2015. The...
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...
This poster explores the disciplines or professions of creators and theorists who marked the history of data visualization. In the 18th and 19th century, visualizing data is used for thinking...
With all of their songs being available now on streaming services I thought I would analyze some data about one of the greatest bands of all time: The Beatles. This visualization looks at their...
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...
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...
Risk assessment tools -- tests that are supposed to measure a prisoners risk of recidivism -- are coming into increasing use. These tools can reduce the size of prison populations and avoid...
Shrinking glaciers, a changing economy and environmental worries are forcing the Bhutanese to question whether their dependence on hydropower is the realistic way forward. This is a story of a...
In order to turn music into numbers (which could then be visualized), we decided on the topic of speed drumming — specifically how some of metal’s most accomplished percussionists stacked up...
How much money exists in the world?
Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...
MapInSeconds lets people create choropleth maps just by copying and pasting data from a spreadsheet/Excel.
A major goal of this is to make map-making straightforward and accessible. The maps can...
Our latest release constitutes quite a catch: a massive, awe-inspiring aquarium of American freshwater fish! Each finny friend has been meticulously illustrated scale by scale—to scale! This...
From the mundane to the unexpected, here is a look at products that businesses associated with the Republican presidential nominee have imported since 2007.
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?
Collective Craving is an interactive Twitter visualization of human cravings during specific events. It has collected almost one million tweets containing the keyword ‘craving’, captured on 13...
This research facilitates the understanding of each node’s features through Heatmap visualization in creating network visualization, and suggests a clustering of nodes by connecting the sentiment...
Twenty-four solar terms is according to the sun in the ecliptic (the earth's orbit around the sun) on the position of the change and develop.
Twenty-four solar terms can reflect the change of...
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...