At the close of 1998, there were 23 known weblogs on the Internet. A year later there were tens of thousands. What changed? Pyra Labs launched Blogger, the online tool that gave push-button...
A set of colorful maps visualizing the first or last letter of each country's name.
In addition, small multiples for each letter (that appears at least once as the first or last letter,...
The infographic shows that, after excluding the geographical latitude factor which indicated the strongest correlation, the most significant correlation was between per capita car ownership and...
This piece is a timeline depicting the history of the Rugby World Cup (rugby union) and includes a visual representation of the scores of all matches at each tournament. The majority of matches are...
The special project tells us about why it is essential to become a donor and how the issue of blood donation has changed in Russia over the past ten years. There is the interactive tile grid map of...
First discovered in 2015, LIGO and Virgo have since detected 50 gravitational wave events. These ripples through space time itself are caused by the violent collisions of black holes (and/or...
Click on a country on the map to filter all the coups from 1950.
Use the sliders to choose between cold war and post-cold war, or to focus on a specific period.
Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura about the production and consumption of Pasta in the world.
Source: International Pasta Organisation - The World Pasta Industry Status Report 2013
An infographic on California's dry spell that plots data from the Palmer Hydrological Drought Index, a soil-moisture algorithm designed to measure the long-term impact of drought. The graph focuses...
This visualization explores the history of American leadership, displaying a timeline of every past president and charting their lives from birth, through education, career and presidency.
It...
Colorful wandering paths emerge when examining the numbers of well known mathematical constants and irrational numbers like pi, e, the golden ratio, and others. Starting at a single point, a...
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...
A socially-conscious data visualization firm that helps companies and organizations promote information transparency and public awareness. From endangered species, to sustainability, to politics,...
In the current uprising of right-wing politics, the discussions often focus on a view of the world in its present state rather than understanding it as a historical process. Migration, ethnical...
This visualization leverages genetic research conducted on a population from the Million Veteran Program to address the underrepresentation of participants from diverse backgrounds. The topology...
Bio: I am an information designer and data sonification artist. I'm passionate about creating short, impactful data stories as well as nuanced, complex data-rich long reads. Throughout the design...
As Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, FiveThirtyEight looked for a way to visualize how long the road to recovery can take. New Yorker’s 3-1-1 calls since Hurricane Sandy showed us that the...
“The contribution of Spanish companies on the Sustainable Development Goals" is the sixth of a series of reports that the SDGs Observatory of Esade and La Caixa Foundation have been working on for...
New in the field and feeling lost in the labyrinth of choices? No worries! Check out this chart inspired by Agatha Christie's murder mysteries highlighting popular combinations of motives, weapons,...
When presenting something new, there’s usually no way past a PowerPoint-packed workshop. Deutsche Post DHL Group has taken a more innovative tack to market its sustainability-building DHL...
In the race to put self-driving vehicles on the street by 2021, major automakers and suppliers are partnering with, investing in and acquiring smaller component makers and technology start-ups
An ongoing series of works that visualizes “DNA bar codes”—short snippets of DNA sequences used by scientists to identify species, accessible in open source scientific databases.
This work...
This study explores the relationship between human communities and natural ecosystems, focusing on what happens when they intersect. We aim to understand how conflicts and losses are seen and...
This piece encodes part of my DNA sequence (the first chromosome) as a Sierpiński fractal triangle. Twenty coloured triangles make up the base units corresponding to twenty distinct genotype calls....
Visualisingdata.com is an award-winning site providing readers with a rich variety of content that charts the development of the data visualisation field as well as profiling the professional...
After blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse within the NSA, Thomas Drake was charged under the Espionage Act by the Obama Administration. This interactive short documentary tells his...