This story features an agricultural project from Uganda. A team of scientists joined 358 farmers who sourced the data themselves for this project. In two districts they tested the best bean they...

Designer Krisztina Szűcs visualizes the ‘scary factor’ of one of the most popular fairy tales

The Supreme Court on June 27 struck down Texas abortion restrictions that had caused more than half of the state’s abortion clinics to close. Here is a look at regulations around the country....

An interactive Japanese Kanji Learner created in Tableau Public

As climate change alters 
habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will
 animals move to survive?
 And will human development prevent them from getting there? This map shows the average...

This visualisation shows the relative deprivation of 109 cities and towns in England. The diagram has been produced by collating the ‘English Indices of Deprivation’ and the ‘Major town and city...

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura about the Roman emperors (from Augustus to the last of the Western Roman Empire) , their causes of death and their years in power Source: Wikipedia

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...

How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...

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

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...

Monitoring poverty and well-being in NYC in this interactive for the Columbia Population Research Center.

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...

A visual display of the varieties of tea from China and Taiwan. As the second most widely consumed beverage, second only to water, tea has a lot more varieties than you would think. Like wine where...

PhotoViz is a presentation, curriculum and book about the overlap between photography and data visualization. From a talk at Webstock, the concept matured into a class at NYU’s ITP before being...

Displaying a cities density (people per square kilometre) by creating city-like typographic expressions of that density. The more crammed and taller the buildings within the boundaries of the type,...

Real-Time Accumulation of Wealth

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...

English has words from all over the world but come from three main sources: Germanic, Old French, and Latin and Greek. This visualisation color codes text based on word origins.

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

Data USA puts US government data in your hands. It's a free and open source platform that combines data from a variety of U.S. statistical agencies and brings it to life in more than 1.8 million...

The project investigates the problem of air pollution in modern megapolices. The main purpose was to tell about the influence of different urban systems on environment, their correlation and role...

Unioncamere Lombardia is the association of the twelve public Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Crafts of Lombardy. Unioncamere publishes a report on industrial and manufacturing...

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...

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...

How old are you? How old were the great and the good when they peaked, or got their big break? WHO old are you?

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...

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...

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...

Ever wonder which James Bond made the most money? How about which actor flirted with Moneypenny the most? Or who killed the most henchmen? I have. So I did what anybody would do: I sat down with a...