The analysis of collaboration patterns both between institutions and among countries. Scientific collaborations play an increasingly important role in driving world-leading research. Nature...

Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.

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?

Anecdotally, aspiring musicians flock to Nashville. Portland has a vibrant food truck scene. Theater is rooted in New York City. Yet what about other cities? What is the creative fabric of...

The obesity epidemic plaguing much of the developed (and developing) world has long been blamed on excess fat consumption, but recently sugar has emerged as the more likely culprit. This piece...

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...

Artwork for "La Lettura". Data extraction by ItaliaNLP Lab. The visualization shows the most frequent terms and their proximity in Svetlana Alexievich's books. For each book are indicated the 10...

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

The US government has wasted billions of dollars in Afghanistan, and until now, no one has added it all up. Project after project blundered ahead ignoring history, culture and warnings of...

The average office worker productivity is now 84% higher than it was forty years ago, and the transformation of our workspace may have provided a helpful hand.  From the classic Knoll to the...

Woman-man: a fair duel? For your salary difference, test the 2016 edition of Pariteur, the only application based on all French wages. 

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

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 Battle of Waterloo, visualized. 

This design is one of my course assignments, according to the computer query some information about the recycling of materials, analyzed and simplified, combined with some illustrations design...

I overlayed 5 different time periods of humans to see how each related to animals, assuming the pregnancy length did not change (there was no data on pregnancies from Pre-1900s).

The Swiss Post recently presented various information and resources on e-commerce. The scrollable microsite conveys the notion of e-commerce being more than just an online shop. Interdisciplinary...

The refugee crisis was all over the news in the last year. This short video explores what impels people to leave their homes, which role the situation in Syria plays for those events and how that...

Infographic summarizes the cases of corruption investigated and prosecuted in Valencia and its main defendants. It is shown in chronological order each case to see in the time from when...

Can food be a medium? What is the taste of data? The Data Cuisine Workshop is an experimental investigation on the representation of data with culinary means, or — if you like — edible diagrams....

This simulation uses a set of assumptions based on the results of the Republican primary up to April 2016.

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...

The Dalai Lama asked Paul Ekman and Stamen Design to design him an Atlas of Emotions. This online interactive project visualizes what science knows about emotions, emotional states, triggers,...

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...

Prince was much more than a prolific musician. Besides giving rise to the "Minneapolis Sound," he also had an exceptional eye for spotting talent. He created numerous musical groups and wrote hit...

A visual representation of Spotify's algorithm to create a personalized Discover Weekly playlists for their 75 million users.

In this piece we highlight long-held critiques of maps as truthful depictions of the world.    We place our trust in maps as truthful representations: as tools to guide us from A to B. But...

Explainer motion graphic outlining information behind the death penalty

In celebration of the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this month, Visa looks back look back at major historical and cultural milestones in the Olympic and Paralympic Games since 1986.

Interactive poster was developed for a showcase exhibition in Zurich to get visitors to participate and create fun conversations. Based on the YAAY method for interactive visual data collection, we...