Our OS Maps users created over 300,000 public routes across Great Britain in 2018 (covering some 2,950,000 miles…) and we were curious to see where you most (and least) enjoy exploring.
The...
Between 1973 and 2013, $367 billion of development aid has been distributed worldwide. Who has provided aid, and who has received it? This deceptively simple graphic shows the flows of global...
There are still many people in the world who experience hunger and have gone without food for days. The problem of hunger transcends beyond developing nations as it brings us to another topic of...
The Data Visualization Society fosters a community where every member benefits from resources that support growth, refinement, and expansion of data visualization knowledge regardless of expertise...
The project 'NHL Attendance' visulaizes home attendance of each team in each NHL season and also attendance ranking. The data represents as a circular bump chart. It's possible filtering teams to...
The 114 winners of the Literature Nobel Prize since 1901, in chronological order by year of birth. Each winner is featured with: year of birth and death, year of first and last publication, year in...
The clustering of instruments by gender reflects prejudices that date back to the 19th century, or earlier. Women were discouraged from playing instruments that might distort their facial features,...
After two Boeing 737 MAX planes crashed within six months of each other, the Journal set out to answer the question of what went wrong in a visual explainer created with painstaking accuracy. This...
Getting a bird’s eye view of them and following the individual paths as they weave through what might resemble spaghetti, some sort of flower or a bow-tie. It’s a beauty that cannot be...
I had just moved to Singapore in Jun 2018. I remember there was a night when I took the subway back home at around 10 PM. Nearly half of the people on the subway were just coming back from work....
The far-right AfD could win in the upcoming elections in eastern Germany for the first time. We analyzed polls and discovered a pattern connecting infightings with voter approval.
Along the...
Each year, college football coaches work tirelessly to recruit top high school prospects for their programs. It’s the most unsung part of their jobs; even as they try to maximize the potential of...
The Tour de France is the hardest cycling race in the world. In order to win, it takes a combination of different riders on each team playing their part in the peloton. Cyclists have to sacrifice...
Every year, humanity is leaking more and more plastic into the world's oceans.
Plastic does not dissolve. Instead it is ground into smaller and smaller pieces at the micrometer and nanometer...
With a new format on the horizon, a look back at past Oscars ceremonies shows us the awards show is no stranger to change — it just hasn’t happened in a while.
The entrant has supplied an...
In early 2019, The Economist built a demographic model using 90,000 individual survey responses from YouGov to calculate an individual’s probable attitude to each of three possible Brexit options:...
In just two decades of the new century, Russia did come so far. And so did it’s people’s lifestyle and social structure which changed along with rising economic well being. This long read is an...
During Russia's centuries‑long history, its ethnic composition has changed repeatedly. At the moment, there are over 190 ethnic groups in Russia who speak 150 languages belonging to 13 language...
The main visual interface for threaded conversations on the internet (forums) is still mostly text. In this work we give a full reimagining of the forum reading experience through the use of graph...
Global air pollution is getting worse and worse. This chart can help everyone better understand the types and components of pollutants in the atmosphere.
Privacy Label is a ranking system that aims to address privacy concerns, not just online but also offline. It consists of circular stickers in the form of letter grading; from ‘A’ the best through...
These seven types of medical waste are the result of procedures, studies and general living habits around the hospital and in the world. They are produced and disposed of through different methods,...
Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty?
The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from...
Harvard Growth Lab’s Country Complexity Profiles is a first-of-its-kind tool that revolutionizes how to think about economic strategy, policy, and investment opportunities for over 130 countries....
The intersection of cancer genomics with novel immunotherapies is revolutionizing patient care. The number of mutations found in tumors has been associated with overall survival of lung cancer...
China’s coal region has been particularly hard hit as the trend for renewable energy continues to grow, with the outflow of people compounded by low birth rates and ageing populations. We analyse...
Global fishing is big business, and it is common to fish in other countries waters, both legally and illegally. How does the economic wealth of a country relate to its fishing activities?
This visualization plots every made 3-pointer by Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors up until the end of the 2018-19 season. The colours and line thickness highlight shots made from...
The world has almost doubled its energy consumption since 1980. While renewable energy resources such as solar and wind power are getting cheaper to build, much of that demand growth has come...