Infographics are everywhere, but what made them so successful? This infographic exposes the science behind the boom.

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...

More than any other storm since Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy was a rude wake-up call that the effects of Climate Change to coastal communities. Some of the most iconic images of destruction...

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

"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...

Scientific research and data fuel the content of my artwork. I create pieces to raise awareness about interesting and important environmental topics. The key topic in my portfolio is Climate...

I spent a week on the couch with Tarantino’s oeuvre, watching people die and swear a blue streak. When someone was killed by a gun or a sword or a venomous snake, or someone was called a...

In the final sentence of his study of nineteenth‐century canals, Ronald E. Shaw points to the limitations of most canal maps: “The long lines of canals now drawn on our maps ... are but the...

This visualisation looks at the number of accidents in GB between 2009 and 2013.

This map follows the growing population of Syrian civilians who have fled the country’s civil war since 2011. The data are from Eurostat and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Since 2008 I create network visualizations to better understand how communities work. In this article I take a look at how verified Twitter users are connected and who they are.

War and Peace — a vast novel with many characters and events, historical facts and locations. We visualized relations between the characters and how these evolve, movements of the characters on the...

Samsung recently commissioned the world's leading futurists, architects, technology forecasters and sociological soothsayers to cast their visionary insight 100 years into the future. 

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

From 'vehemently oppose' to 'all in': explore the universe of positions on Donald Trump. See which politicians have been sucked into orbit by the gas giant and which ones are resisting the pull.

High-profile mass shootings in San Bernardino and Colorado Springs grabbed national attention and sparked debate about how to reduce gun violence. But Congress still hasn’t passed a single bill...

Based on Reddit, Data is Beautiful showcases graphs, charts, maps and other forms of data visualization. DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are...

Discover the popularity of some of the world’s favourite foods - from global classics to local favourites - as tagged on Instagram. Use the interactive map to discover Instagram’s capital of curry,...

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

Plotting climate data as a polar plot. 

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...

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

This visualisation looks at the housing cost (buying and renting) in the London Boroughs over a period of four years.

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...

Visualising London's pulse.

What do books look like without words?

Wage Islands is an interactive installation about wage and housing inequality in NYC. It's a 3d topographic map of monthly housing costs submerged in water to show where New Yorkers can afford...

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

Capricious Earth is big data visualization product, shows statistics from 1976-2016, more than one million global seismic data for nearly 40 years, and the earthquakes of Chinese provinces. This is...

Native Berliners are a minority in Berlin. This interactive application shows for the first time which cities the new arrivals come from.