This comprehensive, trans-boundary atlas contains over 100 maps of Arctic marine mammals, seabirds, sea ice, subsistence, and more. The Atlas is organized into six sections that build, layer by...

Donald Trump’s rise from joke candidate to Commander in Chief was extraordinary. As Delayed Gratification is a Slow Journalism magazine, which reports on events at least three months after they’ve...

The project 'NHL Attendance' visulaizes home attendance of each team in each NHL season and also attendance ranking. The data represents as a circular bump chart. It's possible filtering teams to...

World Cup 2018 was over on July 15th, with 169 goals scored in 64 matches. After it ended, we made this mobile-friendly interactive piece, mapping out all 169 shots in one soccer field and animated...

A look at the 120-year history of Australian Rules Football (1897-2016). The visualization explores ladder placement for each club after the home and away season as well as premiership success.

Commissioned by Pingan technology, Emerge designed and built an interactive experience based around company’s patent records, aiming to make the data touchable and memorable. Using realtime...

We have trouble understanding and accepting mass deaths . For example, numbers like 1; 2; 14; 20; 50, are all quantities that we encounter quite frequently and therefore we’re able to rationalize...

Infographics show median voting scores, representing participants tastes since 1994 till 2013. Outcome flow shows voting statistics, how one country participant voted for another, while income flow...

This visualization explores the story of Nobel prizes through years. Visualized for each laureate are prize category, year the prize was awarded, and age of the recipient at the time, as well as...

We created a graphic that details the dresses worn by every actress who has won (and accepted) the Best Actress Academy Award since 1929. Using photographic sources, we researched and illustrated...

Our bodies are extraordinary. They contain elements that have a commercial value, megabytes of data, and trillions of cells, most of which aren't our own.

Every second of your life you are under attack. Bacteria, viruses, spores and more living stuff wants to enter your body and use its resources for itself. The immune system is a powerful army...

JPEG images are everywhere in our digital lives, powered by algorithms that remove details that are imperceptible to the human eye. This produces the highest visual quality with the smallest file...

Featuring 1,000 fascinating projects, VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to...

The past, present, and future of captive whales and dolphins according to data and pop culture.

For this story, we colleced a portrait picture of famous black people and repeatedly applied the aging filter available in FaceApp, a popular smartphone app that changes the look of users’ photos....

A look at the 537 Academy Awards nominated for best picture since the award show began.

This grid visualises all the possible scenarios for one of the group stages of this summer's World Cup. It was still all to play for as the final set of games began, so this chart helped football...

The 'Map of Every City' is a study of history, the urban fabric, personal experience and gentrification applied to the medium of a traditional city street map. Through its universality, it...

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It last made voice contact less than an hour...

Since German reunification, millions of people have left the eastern part of Germany, triggering a demographic crisis. Data now shows exactly what happened – and why there’s cause for hope.

This interactive infographic captures the beauty and of population both at the country level and for each continent. Hovering over a country will highlight the country in the map key at the top....

Coal and natural gas are the most common sources for electricity in the country, but coal represents a declining share. The new Clean Power Plan seeks to accelerate that trend by requiring...

Florence was downgraded to a tropical storm on Friday evening, but still had sustained winds of 70mph. First published september 11 2018

We looked through decades of rap lyrics and categorized every mention of Donald Trump and other presidential candidates, and presented the results with graphics, sound and an interactive database.

In February we released a project Our World in Data had been working on: SDG-Tracker.org, the first (and only, to date) resource where you can track our progress towards the United Nations...

It is a visualization of the national anthem of China. From left to right, top to bottom, it visualizes the entire song and lyrics. The lyrics of Chinese characters are not complete characters but...

A mounting number of opioid addicts are encountering a deadlier and deadlier supply of drugs. The resulting death toll continues to rise despite years of alarms and efforts to intervene.