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...

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?

Recent fossil discoveries have allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolution of mammals from their humble, shrewlike ancestors to the extraordinairy variety of forms, including humans, that...

A brilliant visualisation of those who have climbed Mount Everest including those who have fallen.

The Supreme Court on June 27 struck down Texas abortion restrictions that had caused more than half of the state’s abortion clinics to close. Here is a look at regulations around the country....

An interactive map of what daylight and darkness look like in most of the United States over the course of a year.

A series of graphics accompanied this article on Flint's water crisis. These graphics took pains to convey the statistical sampling that was being used to test Flint's water, and how seemingly...

An analysis of all the games ever played between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Genetic engineering is already a huge influence today but a new gene editing technology called CRISPR is going to change our daily lives inevitably and forever. This video gives a comprehensive...

During the Climate Conference we published 3 visualizations on the impact of human CO2 emissions. A simulation in which the ‘bubble rate’ reflects the actual CO2 emission rate makes the different...

A simulator of chance and cause of death at every age and according to gender and race.

Clayton Kershaw was one of the best pitchers in baseball in the first half of the season. We analyzed more than 1,600 pitches to illustrate his tendencies. We also allow readers to explore the...

Big data gets all the glory, so I set out to explore data of a much smaller and more personal nature. Little Data is an ongoing series of data visualizations based on hand-collected personal data...

There have been more than 22 million weddings in England and Wales over the last 70 years. Visualising data from the Office for National Statistics allowed to retrace patterns in the British...

Artwork for "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera". The visualization shows the amount of annual Co2 emissions in 39 countries. For each country have been indicated annual...

#MakeoverMonday is a social experiment run by Andy Kriebel and Andy Cotgreave. Each week Andy Kriebel shares a foreign data set and asks others to turn it into a more meaningful visualisation. The...

Dress For Our Time, by award-winning artist and designer Helen Storey MBE RDI (London College of Fashion, UAL Centre for Sustainable Fashion) and creative agency Holition is a unique installation...

After one hundred years, how far have we pushed forward the limitation of human body? Are human races getting faster, higher and stronger? To answer this question, the project collect historical...

Designer Krisztina Szűcs visualizes the ‘scary factor’ of one of the most popular fairy tales

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

On the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we measure (for measure) 97 times his plays inspired us. He began writing plays by 1592, and they appear roughly in this order. He died on April 23, 1616,...

Alberto Cairo's weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism

Play this one-minute infographic animation to discover the history of the tea bag and how many people prefer milk and sugar in their cuppa.

The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...

The majority of Americans state that they trust data and are persuaded by claims supported by it. Yet, only one-third of the public is data literate. This creates a gap between the individuals...

A fun interactive chart which lets you model various outcomes of the election results, selecting how each US state votes to see the impact on the election.

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera -La Lettura about the main deposits of gemstones in the world Source: Gem Explorer

These two infographics were part of a series of infographics I created for the book "Wedged" by Erik Fogg and Nathaniel Greene (available on Amazon, the abortion infographic is the only one...

The Mini Metros project can trace its origins to my futile attempt to make an iPhone app several years ago. Coding is not my forte, but I had fun designing mockups. One of the things I liked the...

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...