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...

"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...

All the national food days in the United States. 

An explorable 3D landscape built using data from an analysis of Grimm's folktales. I identified words in the stories that stood out against common English and used this to generate a landscape on...

Data visualisation project about the author's pizza consumption during the year 2016.

This poster was created as a piece of merchandise to accompany the Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology series on YouTube. The poster is a comprehensive and humorous look at human anatomy. The...

The election forecast is FiveThirtyEight's signature interactive project. The state of the 2016 general election, both nationally and in ever state, is captured in an extensive series of...

WTF Vizualizations publishes infographics and dataviz that make no sense, together with a Twitter community analysing why.

An interactive map of how new words spread across America

American slaves per 250sqm in USA

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...

We use graphic information to express Chinese poetry rhyme.The sound information is displayed through the visual language which is shape,color and so on.Our works make modern people more intuitive...

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...

There are many of us—errr, people—who build stuff with Legos at all ages. Having grown up with loads of hand-me-down Legos (and having a Lego Wall-E on my desk right now), I started to wonder how...

Where do the roots of humankind lie? A video exploring the earliest origins of our species, taking the viewer on a journey about the biological and social developments that lead from apes to homo...

It was the BBC that came up with the format, which pairs celebrities with professional dancers for a televised ballroom dancing competition. The first series began on 15 May 2004. Later that year,...

The birth of the printing press not only revolutionized education and knowledge, it also reshaped the design of letterforms. This opened up a whole industry for printers-scholars, type cutters, and...

QS Best Student Cities is an annual index assessing cities in five key categories: university rankings, student mix, desirability, employer activity and affordability. This infographic reports the...

Leicester have won the Premier League. But how did they do it and how does their success differ from other winners across the continent?

Linear, gantt chart style project schedules are not always easy to read for people without a building or project background. This interactive data visualisation provides an alternative project...

I’m the kind of person who binges on real-time charts during election nights, but not this voting season. My interest is waning because of a sense that political divisions have become deeper, less...

Commissioned by Someone for Cancer Research UK, a data visualisation created for the cover of CRUK's 2016 Research Annual, showing the the far-reaching collaboration between scientists all across...

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...

SWANH.NET is an adaptation of Star Wars Episode IV in a style that was inspired by infographics. One story in one piece of 123 meters length.

LEO Pharma are currently launching PSOREAL, the largest global non-interventional study of topical psoriasis treatments. By raising awareness within LEO Pharma and among investigators, this...

By analysing a huge amount of data, this project shows a statistical analysis of more than 2 million chess games and throws light onto the most common openings, winning moves and interesting...

As of autumn 2015 there are 870 Nobel Prize laureates, each one a well known and celebrated individual. But it is a less known fact that every year the Nobel Committee selects several hundred...

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...

In the lead-up to the much-anticipated release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we set out to log and chart every scene from every Star Wars movie. Yes, we even suffered through the prequels. We...

Sonnet Signatures visualizes each of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets by charting the letters used within each one. The signatures are not meant to assign meaning but to inspire others to think about...