PayPal was founded in 1998. Over the course of four years, its founders guided the online payments service provider to one of the biggest tech companies in the world, before being acquired by eBay...

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...

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...

Optikammer is a playable infographic about optical innovations and the pioneers of animation, cinema, video games and cat gifs. Antique toys and early experiments are made interactive inside a...

The artwork shows the songs present in the charts in Italy, year by year, from 1947 to 2013; and the twenty most common words, decade by decade, recurring in the same songs. Specifically, from the...

While there are more people than ever on the NHS’s donor register, there are some body parts that people find it difficult to part with – even after death.

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...

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...

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...

With the Australian federal election drawing near, we set out to explain why Australians had varying levels of influence on the outcome. We included various factors which could effectively...

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

The artwork shows on the left side the refugees who fled from their country of origin from 1980 to 2015, while on the right side the nations that have given asylum to refugees. The nations that...

A look at the history of Batman & Superman in the context of the changes in American culture, politics and economics over the last century. The aim was to try and understand how these...

'Some jobs are much more labor intensive and dangerous than others, so it's important to consider what kind of workers’ compensation is available in your state. For this data visualization, we took...

My pieces represent reckless occurrences in the mind explained on paper.

The Financial Inclusion Map explores differing access to and use of financial services around the world. It visualises data from the World Bank using a unique interactive hexagon cartogram map. A...

675 people have been shot and killed by police in 2016. This database is based on news reports, public records, social media and other sources.

Visualisingdata.com is an award-winning site providing readers with a rich variety of content that charts the development of the data visualisation field as well as profiling the professional...

Sequence Bundles is a novel method for visualising biological data and discovering sequence motifs that would otherwise remain hidden.

Every job from every episode from Star Trek TOS-main, regular extras, and unnamed characters. Even the babysitters and waitresses.

“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...

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...

How many times do we hear that "the songs from that artist sound all the same"? How similar are they, really? We applied automatic audio feature extraction and machine learning techniques to...

For an article in the May issue of Scientific American, Eleanor Lutz—with input from Bradford J. Gemmell, a marine biologist at the University of South Florida—developed a series of...

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...

A year after Donald Trump launched his presidential bid, and against all expectations, the business mogul is the presumptive GOP nominee. Who supported him? How did he take over a Republican...

Rock 'n Poll is polls explained with interactive graphics. Politicians as well as journalists take political polls very seriously. Losses and gains of a few percentage points are overly analysed...

Interactive map of the best ice-cream parlours in Germany.

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...

A fascinating look into the effects of non-native, invasive species of bugs and insects on the environment and the science of eradicating them.