Shipmap.org is an ambitious interactive WebGL map of commercial shipping movements based on hundreds of millions of data points from throughout 2012 (the most recent year for which all the raw...

Developers spend countless hours creating the code that lies behind the scenes of almost everything we do. But the code itself often remains unseen. Our objective is to engage and celebrate...

Researchers pinpoint the top 15 “Sleeping Beauties,” studies published years ago that are now the talk of the town

Ghost Waste is an interactive installation to attract and to make people familiarize with the problems of ecomafia in an easy way. The observer can thus ‘physically touch’ the problem, activating...

While there are more people than ever on the NHS’s donor register, there are some body parts that people find it difficult to part with – even after death.

In a first-of-its-kind review, the newspaper spent a year examining the field contact practices of the nation’s 50 largest police departments, along with some of the top law enforcement agencies in...

What are investors looking for in companies and founders? The data looks at 890 U.S. startups that were founded from 2009-2015 and received at least $20 million in VC and other equity funding.

With the ‘Cymascope,’ sound can be transformed into an image to visualise the sound of birds like the forest, developing a method for translating the frequency of bird calls into...

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,...

Data visualisation project about the author's pizza consumption during the year 2016.

The artwork shows the satellites launched from 2003 to 2015. It represents the type of institutions that were focused on projects and the nation that financed them. On the left it is shown the...

By analysing the risks and benefits of commuting by bike in big cities, the authors answer the question we all ask ourselves: is it worth it?

One of the joys of working at the Guardian is that playfulness is very much “on brand.” We knew election results and delegate trackers would be everywhere this year (mostly using the same AP data),...

QS Best Student Cities is an annual index assessing cities in five key categories: university rankings, student mix, desirability, employer activity and affordability. This infographic reports the...

China’s rapid economic growth has been the envy of the world for two decades

How to read this chart: Each line chart shows the rate of change since 2009 of tuition and fees in US states (counting public in-state four year institutions). Red shows values higher than the...

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s ‘listening guides’ make use of symbols and morse code-like notation to aid the experience of a live performance.

Shelter-me-not is an infographic art installation visualizing the housing issues of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, highlighting the ways in which shelter is tied to the experiences of both personal...

Healthcare failures place an extra burden of care on transgender people and their families, and can stop them being economically active. Here is what health care providers and legal services can do.

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...

The worst coral bleaching event in recorded history currently threatens reefs across the globe and scientists warn the situation may not improve anytime soon.The threat to corals around the world...

Every job from every episode from Star Trek TOS-main, regular extras, and unnamed characters. Even the babysitters and waitresses.

An interactive Japanese Kanji Learner created in Tableau Public

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura about the production and consumption of Pasta in the world. Source: International Pasta Organisation - The World Pasta Industry Status Report 2013

Series of graphic representations that reconstruct the game tree of eight of the best players in chess history. To plot the game trees, it has been used a database composed of more than 10,000...

This is a map showing over five years of drought data (285 weeks, combined into a single view) in the United States. The dots are proportionally sized by the amount of time over the past five...

The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. When the effects of the principle are observed, it is known as the Goldilocks...

This chart shows the winners and losers in energy sources used.

Twenty-four solar terms is according to the sun in the ecliptic (the earth's orbit around the sun) on the position of the change and develop. Twenty-four solar terms can reflect the change of...

The list of scheduled speakers at the Democratic National Convention is nearly twice as long and more diverse than the Republican National Convention last week. Here's how the speakers at both...