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'...

Think Game of Thrones is complicated? Try the royal houses of Europe! Starting with Charlemagne, this poster includes the monarchs of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Spain, France, the...

Graphically exploring the fluctuations of success across the film careers of a selection of actors and directors

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

In July 2016, the BBC asked 177 film critics from 36 countries around the world to list their 10 favourite films of the century so far. Here are the top 100* films by critical consensus, analysed...

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...

The nature of the data being represented concerns migration patterns to Johannesburg from across all South African provinces as well as living patterns within the physical space of Johannesburg...

The information graphic for the Burckhardt+Partner agenda shows 116 projects in the first quarter 2015. Size and colours give an insight into project volumes and the varied compositions of the...

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

All layers represent the duties and goals of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment in The Netherlands. The bottom layer stands for a sustainable society. It's the foundation of all...

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...

PayPal was founded in 1998. Over the course of four years, its founders guided the online payments service provider to one of the biggest tech companies in the world, before being acquired by eBay...

Artwork for "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera". The visualisation shows the Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism awarded in the last 100 years. The main topic for each winning...

The concept of the cosmic web—viewing the universe as a set of discrete galaxies held together by gravity—is deeply ingrained in cosmology. Yet, little is known about architecture of this...

Since 2008 I create network visualizations to better understand how communities work. In this article I take a look at how verified Twitter users are connected and who they are.

Customers Retention Rate Bubble chart. There are all of the customer cohorts on the x-axis. Light bubbles are the numbers of customers at the beginning of the lifetime period and dark bubbles are...

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

NarcoData is a summary of 40 years of organized crime in Mexico. Organized crime in our country has overwhelming proportions that concerns itself not only with an expanding drug market, but has...

The authors scanned data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey—which covers 3.5 million households—to find out how people are pairing up.

Scientific research and data fuel the content of my artwork. I create pieces to raise awareness about interesting and important environmental topics. The key topic in my portfolio is Climate...

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?

An animated visualization of commuting patterns for US counties operating at the US Census Tract level. Tract to tract flows are shown based on user selected criteria.

Kobe Bryant's 30,699th and final field goal came from 19 feet with 31 seconds left against the Utah Jazz. During his 20 years with the Lakers, he fired up more than 30,000 shots, including the...

A sankey diagram where connections between nodes are represented by goo.

According to a recent report from the Freedom House, 61% of Internet users live in countries where government criticism is restricted. Though widespread globally, censorship is not evenly...

A visual and data analytic exploration of success in tennis: Uncovering the relationship between performance and popularity. The visualization shows the career paths of the currently 500 best...

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...

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...

A large scale poster mapping the football grounds of the teams in the 2015/16 English professional football leagues. The poster illustrates a fascinating juxtaposition of the playing surface...

“We explore the relationship between life expectancy, access to doctors, and wealth. Overall the picture is that typically, wealthier nations have more doctors per person and a longer life...