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...

Data visualization about the evolution of unemployment rates in Europe (by Eurostats) compared to Spain. You can roll over the name of each country to visualize differences bettwen Spain and the...

Launched on Christmas Eve 2020, these "overview" charts tracking concentrations of covid and other pathogens sampled from sewage continue to be used daily to inform the decisions of public health...

Women in government in the modern era are under-represented in most countries worldwide. Even though some progress has been made during the last two centuries, and women are increasingly...

The 1850 Agricultural Production in Pennsylvania interactive dashboard displays a high-level overview of agriculture in Pennsylvania during the mid-19th century. Data was compiled from federal...

With the evolution of technology, scientific knowledge, which used to be understood only by scientists, started to be transmitted to the general public through physical or digital artefacts...

The U.S. has become a major transshipment point for Chinese-made chemicals used by Mexico’s cartels to manufacture fentanyl. Narcos have pulled it off by riding a surge in e-commerce that’s...

How technological innovation is transforming airport terminals. Infographic made for RLab, the science and tech weekly of La Repubblica

Himalayan rivers are transboundary in nature, and therefore they do not conform to the laws of one particular country. In the context of disaster management, floods are a transboundary challenge...

Early GOP debate: who was top searched? Chart of the changing ranks of Republican candidates during the debate on Google search.

For decades, tracking how well - or badly - governments are doing in drug policy has been an elusive endeavor. In no small part, this is because data collection efforts by both governments and the...

The beauty and benefit of the scientific process is its iterative nature over time. Each individual discovery fits into a body of work, and firm conclusions develop only after many years and many...

A cross section diagram comparing disc brakes with drum brakes.

It's not a hoax, a myth, or a conspiracy among scienctists. As we argue about the path we take, let's recall the facts that compel the journey.

A network map showing all of the New York City Subway Lines and ranking of line by length of line and number of stations along line.

This is a visualization showing the number of steps walked between the months of January and April. This viz was intended to show the days I was laziest at hence the days with the least number of...

Every victim of covid-19 had their own joys and hopes for the future. Leslie Shapiro and I marked one million deaths in America from covid-19 by writing about one person who died each week of the...

The intention of this infographic is to inform viewers about both the differences between how we learn on digital screens versus print media and reading preferences.

The summer in Finland is too short for many plants to grow. Summer months in Nordic countries only last for about 3 months, approximately 100 days. Inspired by the book by Neil Fletcher, I wanted...

Superannuation (similar to a pension fund in some countries) and compound interest are notoriously dry topics. However, there are significant gender disparities in superannuation savings, with...

This interactive visualization is accessible through a website or at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana the Milanese museum, which conserves Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus. The project opens up new...

We show how Germany commutes. 

Wage Islands is an interactive installation about wage and housing inequality in NYC. It's a 3d topographic map of monthly housing costs submerged in water to show where New Yorkers can afford...

It can be difficult to imagine what a cell looks like! Circles within blobs are the common diagrammatic images I remember from science lessons. These impenetrable visualisations confounded me. I...

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...

"Films Around the Clock Under the Midnight Sun" explores the schedule of the Midnight Sun Film Festival organised in 2018. Data for this visualisation consists of the last published schedule of the...

BLR Water Log is an interactive website that cartographically visualizes drainage channels and the flow of water in the city of Bengaluru, India. Using satellite elevation data and hydrological...

An interactive representation of the relationships in Syria as they stand today.

In Nice to Meet You, we visualize measures of ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural heterogeneity across 250 countries and territories in the world. We intuitively understand that what...

The infographic is structured on 2 levels: one more internal, relating to the 2021 figure, and one more external, showing the trend compared to the figure 10 years earlier. The structure of the...