More than 100 heads of government and 40,000 other attendees are gathered to craft a global climate deal. It’s challenging work, made more complicated by the slew of alliances among...
Effectively communicating climate change is a challenge. The animated climate spiral is a different way to show the observed changes and resonates with a broad audience. The original version...
Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a...
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...
The IBM Watson News Explorer uses the AlchemyData News API to automatically construct a news information network and present large volumes of news results in an understandable fashion. It uses...
This is a visualization of the Republican primary elections in 2016. In this elections, each state has its own system of dividing delegates over candidates. This visualization allows to experiment...
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...
From the mundane to the unexpected, here is a look at products that businesses associated with the Republican presidential nominee have imported since 2007.
Cognitive biases are just tools, useful in the right contexts, harmful in others. They’re the only tools we’ve got, and they’re even pretty good at what they’re meant to do. We might as well get...
Capricious Earth is big data visualization product, shows statistics from 1976-2016, more than one million global seismic data for nearly 40 years, and the earthquakes of Chinese provinces. This is...
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.
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...
Galileo's Impact On Modern Science
According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called...
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...
Olympians are young, supremely healthy people who’ve been training with the intensity of combat troops for years. Suddenly they’re released into a cocoon where prying reporters and overprotective...
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...
This visualisation graph below shows the running schedule for 1030 runners who are logging their data with Discovery Vitality in South Africa and have done at least one run over 80 km. Each row...
These data visualizations aren't for our community, they're for the non-experts who so often find numbers daunting, disinteresting or just plain dubious. Although they're statistically...
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...
Today’s AFL grand final players are the product of sports scientists on the quest for the perfect competitor.
The average grand finalist has certainly changed a lot over the years. ‘Mullets,...
I created a series about some of the major impacts of global warming that I witnessed in Washington State this summer, using scientific data to show how the drought is devastating the...
A collection of small data visualisations on taboo topics.
I want these data visualizations to remind non-experts of a time when numbers weren’t daunting, disinteresting or dubious. The...
This project was inspired by Dear-Data.com, a wonderful collaboration between Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. We, Jeffrey Shaffer and Andy Kriebel, decided to follow in their footsteps and...