Water is not only the source of life, but also the material basis of social economic development and social progress. However, water resources are scarce in China, the thirteenth largest in the...

Global spending on R&D reaches record high of almost US$1.7 trillion. See how much your country spends.

Open Data Cam' is a tool that helps to quantify the world. With computer vision 'Open Data Cam' understands and quantifies what it sees. The simple DIY setup allows everybody to become an urban...

Animal hearing frequencies, visualized.

Despite the fact that our world is more free than ever before in history, there remain some 45.8 million people living in a state of modern slavery. This visualization analyzes the problem of...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report is an important measure of our economy’s health. But much of the news coverage overestimates the importance of early numbers that are subject to...

The project gives a new perspective on the world and the »Democracy Index« by The Economist. Usually, we compare countries on a map. This is reasonable as their geographical position and shape is...

Google knows where you have been. For the year 2017, I analised the tracking data that Google collects from your location and visualised it into a fiddly poster. Unusual. Filigrane. Something...

The richest people in the world found success at various ages. Warren Buffett spent over 25 years as a millionaire before becoming a billionaire, while it took Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos less...

After Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that it would be easy win a trade war against China, we created an interactive game that explores that claim. Our project introduces readers to classic game...

Russian stacking dolls are known in their homeland as matryoshka, which means "little matrons". Here the coaches of each of the World Cup teams are transformed into little matrons to show their...

A series of infographics, developed for UNWOMEN’s new flagship report, 'Turning promises into action', uncover significant gaps for women’s empowerment. The infographic show how gender equality is...

In February we released a project Our World in Data had been working on: SDG-Tracker.org, the first (and only, to date) resource where you can track our progress towards the United Nations...

Donald Says is a press review for Donald Trump related news. This website analyzes 40+ U.S. news feeds and delivers an overview for up-to-date news trends. It shows the frequency of new articles,...

The number of days we’ve gone this year without a mass shooting. As a nation, our longest streak ends at only five days.

The ‘Bursa’ industrial area in Ramat-Gan has been undergoing a process of change as efforts are made to transform it into Tel aviv's business center. The change are far from being complete as the...

Despite generating breathless coverage throughout the year, bitcoin still baffles many. Follow the path below for a working sense of how the cryptocurrency that has shot up in value this year...

The work is an exhaustive compilation on the historical data of the Soccer World Cups. Our intention has been to use different types of infographics to show interesting information. The new...

This visual shows all the stars that we’ve discovered within 20 light years from our Solar system, and the exoplanets belonging to 12 of those stars. When comparing the types of stars, it becomes...

Science tells us reading is not an innate ability; it takes years to master the art of literacy, which leaves the brain permanently changed. Taking on neuroscience with a dash of educational...

Trends in sea-ice thickness and volume are an important indicator of Arctic climate change. While sea ice thickness observations are sparse, here we utilize a ocean-ice model, PIOMAS (Zhang and...

The canopy bed is a bedding set for the Han nationality. Four pillars were mounted on the body. This work takes the canopy bed as the theme to carry on the infographics design. The history of...

The world famous Russian salad has a different name and a century long history in Russia, where it was invented by renowned french chef. This feature cherishes the favorite staple of national...

Our annual Kuijpers family get together is approaching and this year I’ve been working on this idea to visualize my family tree in a more challenging way. And since I can’t memorize all family...

For most of the 12 million people living with disabilities in Iran, basic needs such as healthcare, education and transportation are inaccessible. One of the main reasons why is because Iran has...

Nord Stream-2 is a project to expand the existing Nord Stream main gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, bypassing the transit states: Ukraine, Belarus, Poland...

A visualization about the shared bicycle program and bicycle infrastructure in Austin, Texas with an emphasis on safety and desirability, using multiple large data resources.

Is there something unique about today’s hits—artists taking fewer risks and creating a narrower range of sounds?