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

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...

The design work is based on my students' work of Data Visualization Design. using daily records of emotional impression, my expectations on homework, and feedback as data to make a re-information...

Does every female character in Disney / Pixar movies have basically the same face?

People travel not just more frequently, but increasingly far and quickly. Mapping the connections between all the airports worldwide is a fascinating network visualization exercise. A network, in...

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...

At the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), I've made dozens of infographics / data visualisations to present data from investigations, educational resources and research articles. Our main...

Information design is to use reasonable design methods to analyze and organize the data and information, and make the data, passing on the information in a reasonable way, let the complex noise to...

We have become the largest producers of data in history. Almost every click online, each swipe on our tablets and each tap on our smartphone produces a data point in a virtual repository. According...

As temperatures rise and oceans warm, regions will face drastic changes and will be increasingly affected by climate hazards.

Paralympians face fewer competitors than Olympians do.

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...

An interactive map of what daylight and darkness look like in most of the United States over the course of a year.

Animated time series of mass shootings that occurred during 2015 in the united states.

A series of graphics accompanied this article on Flint's water crisis. These graphics took pains to convey the statistical sampling that was being used to test Flint's water, and how seemingly...

Colour trends in Instagram’s early-adopter photographer community.

Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible? This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...

Cities in Europe – Facts and figures on cities and urban areas The publication ‘Cities in Europe’ contains 13 infographics that show facts and figures on recent urban developments in the context...

One passionate entomologist poetically describes and ranks over 70 species' painful stings.

There’s heavy competition in the fintech space and no shortage of moving parts. However, this infographic helps to put most things in perspective.

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

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,...

From Afghan training camps to the Islamic State - this is the comprehensive map for 37 years of terror acts performed by various Islamist groups around the world. We track the story and roots of...

Originally published in 1995, one of the most iconic resources in the coffee industry, the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, has been the industry standard for over two decades. In 2016, this...

From 1973 to 2015, my grandfather notes down all his bicycle rides in a diary. My aim is to give an overview of and insight in the biking history of my grandfather and the places he visited. The...

From the mundane to the unexpected, here is a look at products that businesses associated with the Republican presidential nominee have imported since 2007.

Interactive website to explore the evolution of world population against major historical events.

Vaccination schedules are a live political issue in the USA. We wanted a neutral entry point into this debate, so we produced this interactive, which allows our readers to compare the schedules in...

delvv.io would like to submit the graphic work from our very own Rising Star, Anja Laubsher. We are a qualitative research startup based out of Johannesburg, South Africa. We live in a continent...

Xavi Bou focuses on birds, his great passion, in order to capture in a single time frame, the shapes they generate when flying, making visible the invisible. Unlike other motion analysis...