Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain activity in seven people while they listened to more than 2 hours of stories from The Moth Radio Hour. This data was used...

Visual representation of the most dangerous urban intersections in America.

'The Missing Migrants Map' is the visual representation of all the incidents recorded by "The Missing Migrants Project". This visualization is based on the data tracked by the "Missing Migrants...

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura on the production, export and consumption of tea in the world from 2008 to 2013. Source: Fao Food and Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, millions were displaced, and once bustling communities became husks of their past selves. While the emptiness of these places is...

The book “The Atlas of Gentrification” is a collection of data visualizations, graphs and maps which respond to the phenomenon of gentrification and related issues, such as segregation and income...

Politicians like to say, 'I worked my way through college' to prove their work ethic. But four decades ago, a year of tuition could be worked off in a summer. Compared with today's kids, they had...

#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...

Level the playing field by eliminating the influence of the factors below

On the 10 of January the great musician David Bowie died. Several web portals published the lists of the critics favorite songs. So 3 very different in many ways (political views, social aspects...

Although the Force is vague and entirely fictitious, this infographic identifies, measures, and categorises use of the Force of the first 6 Star Wars movies.

Infographic showing on one hand the comparison over the entire race Rossi, Lorenzo and Marquez (for lack of a career: 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the MotoGP 2015) and on the other hand the main 'sprints'...

Dawes’s work, Cinema Redux, inspired us to take a serious look at how one would go about quantifying the amount of ‘redness’ that pervaded the Chinese media. Would the resulting outcome help to...

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...

The list of scheduled speakers at the Democratic National Convention is nearly twice as long and more diverse than the Republican National Convention last week. Here's how the speakers at both...

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

Developers spend countless hours creating the code that lies behind the scenes of almost everything we do. But the code itself often remains unseen. Our objective is to engage and celebrate...

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...

Discover how the European Commission is making a difference by reducing the human and environmental costs of air pollution. Six interactive visual segments are woven into a single narrative which...

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

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...

Behind the sensational success of "Hamilton" are some of the most densely packed, complex rhyming lyrics in the history of musicals. How exactly do they work?

Take a 360 degree virtual tour of our Solar System, with the help of astronomer and Crash Course host Phil Plait! From start to finish, the viewer is guided through from Planet to Moon to Meteor,...

The work discussed is a map of Malleshwaram, more than a hundred years old dwelling in the city of Bangalore India with a spirit of its own. Malleshwaram mesmerizes, the heart of it—a potpourri of1...

How music taste evolved - every top 5 song, from 1958-2016. 

This tool presents biological data for all 55 distinct salmon populations found in the Skeena River watershed, as well as maps of current human and environmental pressures on freshwater and...

To mark the completion of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, ‘The Pursuit of Faster’ data visualisation project explores the evolution of medal winning performances across all Olympic Games since...

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...

Around 1.9 million people work in creative occupations across the UK, which is approximately 6% of total employment. But where do these creatives live? And do some areas of the UK have a higher...

Researchers pinpoint the top 15 “Sleeping Beauties,” studies published years ago that are now the talk of the town