Manifest Destiny tells the story of the United States in 141 maps from the Declaration of Independence to the present. The visualization lets the user flip through more than 200 years of history in...

In the twenty years since its 1998 release, Joel and Ethan Coen's neo-noir buddy comedy 'The Big Lebowski' has emerged as a cult sensation. A yearly festival is devoted to the film and its...

A fascinating look into the effects of non-native, invasive species of bugs and insects on the environment and the science of eradicating them.

Due to the rainy season and the geography of Marikina City, it was considered to be one of the most devastated areas during Typhoon Ketsana back in September 2009. We created a data story on the...

This piece of data visualization aims to deconstruct and represent the emigration flow of Spain between the years of 2008 and 2013. The system that I created to visualize the total number...

The HERE Traffic Analytics suite of data products gives enterprises and government customers insights into what happens on roadways. It helps them make informed decisions, for example, on future...

I am impressed by the “Principle Rivers/Mountains/Lakes” map diagrams that were so popular in the mid 1800s and have been curious about how I might reproduce that aesthetic without etching on...

Twenty five and single? In London, you're anything but alone. According to the 2011 Census, more than half of twentysomethings go solo. Then comes your thirties and that deep river of available...

Roughly 2.2 million people are locked up in prison or jail; 7 million are under correctional control, which includes parole and probation; and more than $80 billion is spent on corrections...

On April 20, 1999, the United States where shocked by the High School school shooting and attempted bombing in Columbine, CO. It caused 15 fatalities (12 students, one teacher, and two...

Bioregionalism is an attempt to align personal identity with natural regions rather than arbitrary political boundaries. But most bioregionalist mapping still relies on the familiar conventions of...

Multidimensional Scaling is a technique to visualise similarities in datasets. It works by projecting a high-dimensional dataset into a two-dimensional space. While the resulting visualisations...

In 2017, over two million traffic stops occurred in Illinois. Each time an Illinois resident was pulled over, the enforcement officer was required to record the details of the traffic stop,...

Mass killings in the United States are most often carried out with guns, usually handguns, most of them obtained legally. There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and...

The food we buy matters. As our food systems become increasingly complex, the food we choose to consume affects not only our own health, but also the environment, our ethical framework, the Earth's...

In December 2012, Chatham House published a major new report on the changing politics of natural resources. The report, Resources Futures, is the result of two years of research and analysis of 12...

Measurements are at the heart of analysis, testing, and discovery. Irish mathematical physicist Lord Kelvin once said, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers,...

Visualize various top pitchers performances throughout the 2017 season using these versatile heatmaps. You can easily see patterns around when pitchers gave up runs throughout the season from a...

The Government expects to spend $14 billion more in the next financial year compared to the current financial year.

Artwork for BBC Focus Magazine regarding climate change due to different causes from 1880 to date Source: Nasa

In 1939, ethnomusicologists John and Ruby Lomax set out on a 6,502 mile journey across the Southern United States collecting folksongs on behalf of the Library of Congress. Using maps, music and...

This visualization focuses on fictional comic book characters who are adherents of real-world or fictional religions. Also, as an American genre, superheroes comic books closely represent American...

The increasing amount of data overloading us on a daily basis requires us to be more selective in how we divide our attention. Being able to quickly assess what information is relevant to you...

Since the Roberts Court came into session, trends have suggested a general rightward shift among most of the justices (despite the health care ruling). The reasons are manifold: from Roberts'...

Hundreds of climbers are gathering in Nepal to begin a months-long odyssey up the world’s highest mountain in hopes of spending a few extraordinary moments on its peak. Scroll along the icy...

This work includes monthly survey results from a research company, giving insights about different demographic groups' viewpoints about varying subject matters.

In partnership with Future Cities Catapult, After the Flood turned London's boroughs into a choropleth - or series of shaded cells - that can contain numerous types of data more effectively than a...

This visualisation shows the distribution of the 10,568,679 items on Wikipedia, sorted by type. It shows that Wikipedia describes 2,424,305 humans, 588,822 Chinese villages, 152,692 albums, and...

In celebration of the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this month, Visa looks back look back at major historical and cultural milestones in the Olympic and Paralympic Games since 1986.

The streamgraph shown on this page represents the evolution of Kantian lexicon throughout his philosophical publications. A hundred of the most important words, of the Kant's philosophical...