The use of chemical weapons is banned under international law and could constitute a war crime. International investigators have concluded that sarin, chlorine and sulphur mustard gas have been...

Alberto Cairo's weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism

I was challenged by friends to show how bars are distributed in Brazil. I received data on registered companies that have the word "bar" in their name and made a poster out of that. The main...

Mariupol is one of the worst sites of the Russian war of aggression. A documentation of the siege in chat histories, satellite images, maps and videos.

This is an interactive force diagram which allows visitors to see instances of officer-involved violence in their cities. It allows exploration on two fronts. First, visitors can group the...

Distributing Information can save a life. It is important to provide updated preemptive Information in different Forms in certain Essential Products. Many regions face major challenges nowadays...

Right now, more than half the world is not connected to the internet, and almost 75% of Africa is offline. Why does this matter? For people living in the poorest parts of the world, access to the...

Are global CO2 emissions still rising? asks some clear questions about CO2 emissions and answers them with visualizations based on the data from the annual report on global CO2 emissions by PBL...

India has the biggest democracy in the world with 543 constituencies, each having fierce competition among the national as well as the regional parties. In 2019, more than 600 million people voted...

There have been quite many US remakes from foreign originals but do they perform better than the originals? To examine this, I used the shows listed in the Wikipedia tables of the US remakes of...

This piece explores job prospects for male and female college graduates. Through extensive data analysis, research and reporting, it finds that the careers that college-educated women take tend to...

From fashion statement to convenience product: the evolution of car paints from 1910 - 2019. Datavisualiation based on 13 million car registrations, published in het Financieele Dagblad, The...

Migrants & Refugees are dying crossing borders. In a time period does not exceed 6 years, between 2014 and 2019, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has recorded 5,506 death or...

Scientists are trying to understand how a virulent bird flu spread through farms in the United States, but one pattern is clear: poultry and cows risk exposure to sick wild birds migrating across...

Berlin is very special when it comes to air traffic as the construction of a new airport is highly delayed. With our interactive news application for the first time people in Berlin are able to...

As young researchers, we all strive to aim high in our careers. But how high may we plan? This project was born out of curiosity to see what statistics say about our chances to be published in...

Inspired by the #journaldataviz, I've collected data on my 1 week vacation in July 2023. During this time we traveled with my family and I helped them around the house. The visualization was...

Create charts and maps in just four steps. This tool reduces the time you need to create visualizations from hours to minutes. @mirkolorenz

An infographic with the worlds most expensive and exotic Hermès bags. Bags are listed by price and use of exotic leathers and materials. The image has gone viral on LinkedIn and viewed by over...

A stylized tile grid map of Europe to viusalize the share and amount of renewable energy (main visualization) and the amount of renewable, nuclear and conventional thermal energy (small...

Back on Planet Earth, we at Nominet have been looking for a way to visualise global internet use. The result is our map of the online world, an atlas redrawn according to the number of...

In the visualization "The Tree of Life", the evolution of life on planet Earth is depicted. A distinctive feature of this visualization is that all images of living beings and plants were generated...

On these pages you will meet Monroe Nathan Work, who lived from 1866 – 1945. This website is a rebirth of one piece of his work, although he did many great things. In his career, he felt compelled...

Last year, Quinnipiac University polled Texans on the Senate race between Democrat Beto O'Rourke and Republican Ted Cruz, which Ted went on to win. The poll asked about the issues and...

Domestic violence has long been rooted in Chinese families. But public understanding of domestic violence is still unclear, or even unaware of the threat. Starting from the process and steps of...

Drone shows are becoming an increasingly popular way for cities to celebrate events. As an alternative to traditional fireworks, they are much safer and eco-friendly. Furthermore, they are...

American slaves per 250sqm in USA

With the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow at a critical time in Scotland’s history, BBC News decided to preview the Games so viewers could get an insight into the excitement that was to come....

“Namma Interventions” or “Our Interventions” in Kannada (the local language of Bangalore) is a Data Humanism project that visualizes consequent unplanned human interventions in local ecosystems of...

Visualizing UFO sightings across the USA using the provided dataset, analyzed through various parameters such as timeline, date, month, etc. Leveraging Tableau and diverse visualization approaches,...