Serif and sans serif, funny and gothic, web-friendly and print-friendly. There are millions of free and paid fonts you can use. Although this is a good thing, it creates a bit of a problem: how to...
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...
This infographic shows bounds and cooperations between several actors involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris and Bruxelles from Daesh.
A map and a chart describe their movements outside and...
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...
Eye of the Stormers is a collaborative project between Bastille and Spotify, as a companion piece to their new album, Wild World. The more times a city streams Bastille's music on Spotify, the...
Our health system is primarily focused on medical information for each patient when in reality, the majority of our health is determined by factors outside that space. The Determinants of Health is...
There are many of us—errr, people—who build stuff with Legos at all ages. Having grown up with loads of hand-me-down Legos (and having a Lego Wall-E on my desk right now), I started to wonder how...
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...
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...
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...
Mass killings in the United States are most often carried out with guns, usually handguns, most of them obtained legally.
There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and...
Based on Reddit, Data is Beautiful showcases graphs, charts, maps and other forms of data visualization.
DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are...
One of the biggest challenges in comparing the best modern-day players to those of previous eras is the changes in the the way the game is played. Season length, roster size, and schedule strength...
You may think buying that particular color shirt or houseware item was your decision, but color analysts and forecasters actually anticipated the color you may choose a few years in advance. Here’s...
On the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we measure (for measure) 97 times his plays inspired us. He began writing plays by 1592, and they appear roughly in this order. He died on April 23, 1616,...
Back on Planet Earth, we at Nominet have been looking for a way to visualise global internet use. The result is our map of the online world, an atlas redrawn according to the number of...
To mark the completion of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, ‘The Pursuit of Faster’ data visualisation project explores the evolution of medal winning performances across all Olympic Games since...
Since 1954, the Indian government has been conferring its highest honours — from the venerable Padma Shri to the exclusive Bharat Ratna — on bureaucrats, artists, scientists, engineers, sporting...
Unprecedented amounts of money are sloshing about England's soccer clubs – be it revenue from tickets or merchandising, the astronomical amounts spent on players and their wages, or the millions...
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 infography is based on the popular board game of Chutes and Ladders.
The game consists in navigating one's game piece, according to die rolls, from the start
(bottom square) to the finish...
The development of antibiotics has added an average of 20 years to our lives. But resistance to antibiotics is rising. This poses a significant risk as common infections may become untreatable....
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...
The electoral map is many shades of Republican and Democrat—and always shifting. Which states have moved to the middle, and which are slipping out of reach for the opposition party?