Using American Soccer Analysis's xG Keeper machine learning model, we built an adjusted save percentage statistic that gives a more realistic understanding of goalkeeper performance. We then...
A healthy Twitter conversation can be seen as one with long chains of replies that have little to no toxic messaging. For a conference talk urging cultivation of healthier conversations, I...
A lot of people look for jobs at big companies because they can be great places to build a solid career. Unfortunately, if we measure the size of a company in terms of annual revenue, there may...
This fast-paced, data visualization-themed game consists of 31 cards with 6 chart icons on each. There is one and exactly one identical chart icon on any two cards. It’s up to you to find the...
Deputy Head of Infographics for the South China Morning Post, Adolfo Arranz, uses historical data for his series of infographics about globalisation’s beginnings in the 16th century, when the...
Makeshift huts crammed onto muddy hillsides. Water wells fouled by nearby toilets. Rapidly-spreading diseases. Health experts say overcrowding, poor sanitation and limited health care in the...
“Flights to Rome” is a data visualization art project showing the entire global mobility network of flight and road infrastructure in a single image. It visualises for the very first time literally...
Article 19’s Expression Agenda metric reveals the state of freedom of expression internationally. The metric examines 350 aspects of democracy in 172 countries to provide an analysis that captures...
Few people care about the situation in Yemen, and when it’s covered in the news it’s all about the war. But what is life really like for the people in Yemen?
The Yemen Polling Center is the only...
A StreamGraph visualization of the total number of persons of concern grouped by country of origin.
The total number of persons of concern is the sum of Asylum-seekers, Internally displaced...
Today in the world there are 541 million young workers, accounting for over 15 per cent of the global labour force.
What does it mean to be young workers in 2018?
With 313 million workers...
To everything there is a season, and diseases are no different. Google search patterns show us what health issues people worry about, when they worry about them, and how epidemics spread through...
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...
Earlier this year, my friend Elijah made a bold claim: that most people in data visualization end up leaving, because there’s something wrong with the current state of the field. It stirred quite a...
The Multi-Scale Flow Map visualizes complex relations between plastic pollutants in fluctuating water environment to help identify, locate and neutralize the pollutants.
The work focuses on...
Funding Trends is a free and interactive web app visualising data to present key trends on donations from UK grantmakers and a dedicated dashboard for each funder. It uses a variety of...
Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, 29 spaceports around the world have been used to launch satellites to orbit. This interactive map and timeline shows the cumulative launches from each...
This map, created using the U.S. Department of Defense's THOR dataset, shows every recorded bombing mission of the Vietnam War. Each mission is plotted as a single semi-transparent point....
With the continuous development of the high-speed railway in China, it is divided into eight vertical and eight horizontal lines. We choose one of the horizontal "shanghai-kunming railway" and...
The Botanical Pharmacy is a florist with a twist. All the flowers within the brand are used in the medical world for traditional herbal remedies to help with a variety of illness. The Pharmacy...
Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, described and even explored – but...
A look at the change in the amount of sea ice in the Arctic over the last four decades. In reviewing the data, it struck me that I could convey the numbers in an arctic aesthetic, allowing the...
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It last made voice contact less than an hour...
What if machines could write stories?
What are the boundaries between creativity and automation? These are the questions I asked myself when I started working on 'Grimmz' - a fairy-tale generator,...
Practicing doctors and researchers need to keep up to date with new medical research, but it can be challenging to read every paper that could be relevant. To help our time-pressured readers to get...
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...
Exclusive data and satellite imagery shows the pace of construction on reefs and reclaimed land in the Spratly and Paracel Islands. U.S. military officials now say China’s military bases on the...
In this series of maps, Reuters traces the course of the Rohingya crisis, from the spasm of violence a year ago through to the daily lives of the refugees in teeming camps.