The Infinite Drum Machine can create beats using sounds from the everyday world.
Thanks to the Philharmonica Orchestra, London, for contributing some sounds to this project.
President Trump’s first real test on the ballot will come 20 months from now, when Republicans face voters at the midterm elections. But those Republicans have decisions to make today about whether...
Visualization of the proportion of French people who know how to play a musical instrument (19%). Infographic from "The French" collection by Vite Vu Bien Vu
Choose a Class and / or Gender by clicking on the images to view the survival rates for the people in that group and select ages in the chart below (desktop only). Explore their stories by hovering...
Head on a spike? Check. Shot on the privy? Check. Baked into a pie? Check. Over the past 6 seasons of Game of Thrones, more than 100 characters have been killed off the show — but only one has...
From food storage to furniture—we use plastic for everything. In 2008 alone 245 million tons of plastic were produced. These plastics often find there way into our waterways. Every year 6.4 million...
A TASS project devoted to the development of the first-ever Soviet aircraft carrier equipped with a ski-jump. The text, photos and infographics are stylistically blended into one element, which...
In the last seven years, Brazilian public funds were used to pay for, on average, two steakhouse dinners every day.
Since December of 2009, when all the expenses paid with government-sponsored...
When a story is well-written, you can become so immersed while reading that it becomes your world. All your surroundings disappear and all that remains are the words on the page guiding you through...
How do people search for candidates and political topics? And what are they really interested in? Wahl 2Q17 uses Google Trends to visualize the Google Search interest in the top candidates of the...
When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to allay American’s fears of North Korea’s nuclear threat by saying, “Americans should sleep well at night,” we asked, should we? What would happen if...
I started by taking a look at my career history and surfacing trends I could find. Once I had a gone through the mental task of mapping of my past job responsibilities, the respective categories of...
The Eurozone? The European Economic Area? The European Free-Trade Area? The European Customs Union? Whaaat?
A graphic that hopefully clarifies the complex structure of the European Union and the...
This week’s infographic is a design about child development. I wanted to create a easy-to-read guide that would be helpful for both medical students and new parents. The infographic has a quick...
Canada's Indian Residential School System was a network of boarding schools, industrial schools, and federal hostels created to remove indigenous children from their homes, their families, and...
We plotted every country’s national record in the 100-metre dash. Hit “start the race” to find out where each country’s fastest sprinter is when Usain Bolt — the fastest man ever — reaches the...
Can a metaphor with animated weather icons track the economic well-being of the United Kingdom and show the impact of Brexit over time? Here is our attempt at adding a little levity to an important...
BBC One series Sherlock pictures a contemporary version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories. But how different is it from the original narrative? We dissect every episode of the hit show...
If it felt like you were on an emotional rollercoaster during this past Presidential election, just look at what was happening to Donald Trump. As shown in ten of the major speeches he gave from...
Exploration of 16 months of Spotify Top 200 streaming data, what it can show us about the useful life of popular music in a streaming context, and avenues for future exploration as more data is...
People’s workdays tend to follow similar patterns. You wake up in the morning, get ready for the day, go to work for eight hours or so, and then go home. There are breaks in between. The 9 to 5,...
I went through the New York Times Best Seller list in fiction from 1950 to present, and for each year measured the ratio of books-written-by-women to books-written-by men and tracked that over...
Japan is truly unique, a country where ancient traditions are fused with modern life as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
By interacting with this visualisation you will embark on a...
President-elect Donald Trump owns a helicopter in Scotland.
To be more precise, he has a revocable trust that owns 99% of a Delaware limited liability company that owns 99% of another Delaware...
A dynamic roadmap through the early developments of data visualization, in the style of John Ogilby’s 1675 Atlas.
Original illustrations and interactive design guide you through time past...
Public transit maps occupy a unique place in the mapping world. Unlike most maps, which are designed to satisfy a single purpose, transit maps must strike a careful balance between readability,...
In 2016, around 31 075 Million US$ (SIPRI Trend Indicator Value at constant 1990 prices) worth of arms were traded all around the world. In 2015, this figure was 28 448 Million US$. In 2016, this...
Data is nothing without context. How can we understand a city without first understanding the characteristics of a normal or typical city? I crunched the numbers on eight measures of 917 cities to...
The visualization shows the 45 US Presidents cronologically ordered, divided by parties (Democrats or Republicans) and by mandate’s duration.
For each President are visualized how many times...