The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...

Every year Russia produces 70 million tons of waste, a tenth of which comes from Moscow. Garbage settles in landfills. RBC observed as landfills grew around the capital. 23 landfills around...

It's easy to imagine running out of oil or water. Gadolinium? Not so much. From the batteries in our electronics to the alloys holding up our buildings, individual elements play crucial—if...

Interactive Genealogy tree of the British Royal Family. It starts with Alfred the Great and ends with Queen Elizabeth I's great-grandchildren. It shows family connections with other European...

The exhibition “Gender and Violence” at the Museum of Military History in Dresden addressed acts of violence and the place of gender roles and gender prejudices within this theme. With this, it...

The special project "ISS: Iconic Service to Science" is the most extensive history of the emergence and development of the International Space Station. You can understand how much the station has...

What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface. Human light...

This visualisation is about Italo Calvino, one among the most well-known and studied writers in contemporary Italian literature. The visualisation lays out the whole repertoire of Calvino's short...

F1 has always set the standard for roadcars design and performance. As F1 evolved, the FIA (F1 governing body) wanted to reduce the carbon footprint without compromising on the speed of the cars.

Nanjing Ming City Wall is the world's largest city wall, it tells the history of a dynasty, it carries the memories of those ancient times and now became the footprints of that. The work...

The infographic shows the timeline of Leonardo Da Vinci's life, his scientific studies, major paintings, inventions, key historical events that took place during his lifetime, other artists of his...

Winds circulate around the globe, forming patterns of gigantic proportions. These patterns become part of human culture and are reflected in our architecture. By orienting on the direction of...

This visualization examines the acquisition of land by the Philadelphia Land Bank

The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France. Due to the intense nature of the sport, doping has been long associated with the race. While doping in...

Most people know about earthquakes, but most people don't know how they happen. This chart shows how earthquakes work.

I have been using a Fitbit for around 2 years. Thought it would be a fun exercise to visualize (and analyze) my own activities, sleep patterns and milestones that I've achieved. A few of these...

Whenever you are bored, you can see this Bored-Graphic and relax yourself, which you can do by sitting at home or by visiting some places.

This visualisation looks into the music that was sent into space as part of the Voyager program from NASA in 1977. The sole task for the Golden Record is to act as an Ambassador for Earth in the...

Visualising how two million people reach Mecca for the annual pilgrimage. The annual hajj is one of the largest international annual pilgrimages. The 5-day event brings together Muslims from all...

Discover images with data visualization. You may or may not know of Unsplash, the internet’s source of freely useable images. Here, on viz.photos you can discover Unsplash’s images in a...

The World is losing its green cover and it is time we act. Our actions have caused such tremendous damage to nature that we may soon reach a point of existential crisis. The Infographic 'The Time...

Research is fundamental to the development of civilization. All products built today rely on the work of scientists who came up with discoveries and pioneered technologies, sometimes decades before...

We submit a visualization design named The Contextual Family Tree. We have a software tool implemented in R that creates a tree from any standard GEDCOM file. It was published in a paper in the...

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...

Cookies are one of the most misunderstood pieces of the modern web. While technically a cookie is just a simple text (.txt) file stored on your computer when you visit websites, its purposes are...

Evolution of Facebook friendship connections over the years. A simple, quick and hypnotizing video.

Typically, an investor’s power over a company is proportional to the the amount of money they’ve invested: The more shares you own, the more votes you have to vote for members of the board or on...

Every student has personal attributes that they bring to school. Their learning is affected also by other factors, such as curriculum and classroom instruction. In this story, we look at how the...

Established in 1981, the Institute of Systems Science at National University of Singapore (NUS-ISS) provides graduate education, executive education programs, consultancy, and research services. To...

The increased industrialization of farm animals has not only affected the number of animals processed every year, but has also had immense environmental effects on the air, land, and water of the...