More than any other storm since Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy was a rude wake-up call that the effects of Climate Change to coastal communities. Some of the most iconic images of destruction...

Big data gets all the glory, so I set out to explore data of a much smaller and more personal nature. Little Data is an ongoing series of data visualizations based on hand-collected personal data...

A geophysical investigation of environmental data and exploring new ways to communicate this complex data to the public. The issue of air pollution from road traffic is especially topical at the...

A three-town route for a weekend of red-hot ice fishing. 

The US government has wasted billions of dollars in Afghanistan, and until now, no one has added it all up. Project after project blundered ahead ignoring history, culture and warnings of...

The pressure is not only a psychological disease, also a response of body’s ‘war footing’. Realizing the accumulated stress has important significance for health life. Using visual information...

Since the retirement of Nasa’s Space Shuttle in 2011, Soyuz has been the sole means of transportation of crew members to the International Space Station to this day (2016). This graphic attempts to...

This interactive lets users explore the complicated dynamics of election demographics, adjusting the turnout and political leaning of different groups to swing states to the Democrats or the...

A look back on New York City’s first-ever bicycle share program.

A timeline of Earth's average temperature since the last ice age glaciation.

Artwork for Wired UK concerning the use of VPNs in the world

Each number capable of factorization (2–101) is factorized to its primes. Each prime factor is represented by a ring of "leaves" around a center point colored with a light-to-dark gradient....

I spent a week on the couch with Tarantino’s oeuvre, watching people die and swear a blue streak. When someone was killed by a gun or a sword or a venomous snake, or someone was called a...

At the world's largest classical music festival, the work of female composers will comprise only 4 per cent of the programme. But as this data visualisation shows, female composers often featured...

Examining the gender of writers, producers, and directors who make films that fail the Bechdel test.

Level the playing field by eliminating the influence of the factors below

Breaking down data on the 27 fintech unicorns. 

Virtual reality has the ability to not only mimic real life, but also to transport its users to another world. The term was popularized relatively recently, in 1987 by Jaron Lanier, but the...

The ESA Star Mapper visualisation is an exploration of some central aspects of astrometric star catalogues, using data from ESA's Hipparcos mission. 

The work shows the most common color of the Olympic Games symbol (5 rings) present in flags of countries that won at least one medal throughout the history of the Olympics. The countries that...

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

Another Life Taken is a project that illustrates abortion in America at the central point of contention — the humanity of the unborn. It represents each child individually as a fetus rather than...

High-profile mass shootings in San Bernardino and Colorado Springs grabbed national attention and sparked debate about how to reduce gun violence. But Congress still hasn’t passed a single bill...

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...

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

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,...

Musicmap tries to provide the ultimate genealogy of all popular music genres and bundles any information regarding music genres and history in one dynamic map, serving as both an educational tool...

A global criminal world according to Interpol database.

Real-Time Accumulation of Wealth

From less than 100 meters to 828 meters, heights of skyscrapers in the world has grown 8 times in the past century. This graphic tracks the tallest building built every year, detailing its...