This project has two goals. One is to show the remarkable relationship between the historical geography of American slavery and the present-day patterns of mass incarceration. But second, the maps...

The unstoppable global spread of the internet is encouraging, but wider access alone won’t close the data gap. This interactive visualisation illustrates how the digital divide has...

On June 23rd, a group of 12 boys from a local soccer team, and their coach, went missing in a cave complex in northern Thailand. The entire world followed their rescue.

Driving to work recently I heard Baz Luhrmann's infamous 'Everybody's free to wear sunscreen'. Great song, big hit in the UK, but it got me thinking - did anybody listen to him?

News Stream Live visualizes the steady stream of news on Spiegel Online - one of Germany’s most-read news pages – and the reactions in social media. Based on different views it can be seen the...

We have become the largest producers of data in history. Almost every click online, each swipe on our tablets and each tap on our smartphone produces a data point in a virtual repository. According...

We were curious to see what were some of the common and not so common trees planted in the five boroughs of New York City. While this visualizes trees which we personally love as an essential...

LEO Pharma are currently launching PSOREAL, the largest global non-interventional study of topical psoriasis treatments. By raising awareness within LEO Pharma and among investigators, this...

Illegal gold mining activity has risen sharply over the last five years in Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami reservation in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest, a Reuters review of exclusive data...

Bauhaus Sound App (available on apple store and play store) The Bauhaus Sound Tool augments the exhibitions and buildings of the Bauhaus Dessau with the dimension of sound. This real-time...

This poster series of data stories on the Cyclone Idai humanitarian response was a component of a Data-Art workshop to create data sculptures. To produce these posters, we collected open source...

At the end of 2019, the new coronavirus pneumonia began to spread rapidly. Starting on New Year's Eve, more than 300 medical teams and more than 40,000 white-clad soldiers from all over the country...

A lot of people move to Dubai, an emirate in United Arab Emirates, to start their own business and live the entrepreneurial life, given the relatively low corporate tax rates as well as the 0% tax...

Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" has been played over 68,000,000 times, and makes up 99.5% of plays from his top 5 songs on Spotify.

As of autumn 2015 there are 870 Nobel Prize laureates, each one a well known and celebrated individual. But it is a less known fact that every year the Nobel Committee selects several hundred...

This visualisation shows the relative deprivation of 109 cities and towns in England. The diagram has been produced by collating the ‘English Indices of Deprivation’ and the ‘Major town and city...

Everyday is a World Day of something. These special days pass through a wide variety of subjects : scourges, diseases, society trends, consumption habits... Sometimes serious or harsh and sometimes...

Today in the world there are 541 million young workers, accounting for over 15 per cent of the global labour force. What does it mean to be young workers in 2018? With 313 million workers...

Data shows why the volcanic lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record. Reuters used data from a ground-based global lightning detection network to visualize the...

Dataviz Inspiration aims to be the largest collection of chart examples online. It currently features around 200 of the most beautiful and impactful dataviz projects I know. Think of it as...

INFO.GRAPHICS is a new website dedicated to data vis and data-driven storytelling. From deep-dives into historical events to analysis of what numbers really mean, INFO.GRAPHICS curates stories to...

  Parliamentary forces in the history of the Italian republic.

A brilliant visualisation of those who have climbed Mount Everest including those who have fallen.

4 questions. 5 options. For everyone in the room. Data Dart is an interactive, mobile, dartboard-style polling activity that invites every participant—not just panelists or speakers—to make...

Whether Pope, Merkel, Trump or the DiCaprio, they are all talking to us. But how exactly do they do this? "To the point(s)" is a rhetorical analysis tool revealing the speech strategies of today’s...

The project presents a generative approach to the book cover creation process. As a basis for generation, I chose a Peter de Jong attractor. Such text features as average word length, average...

This text is designed to accompany your study of introductory digital signal processing. It’s an eccentric piece of not-so-rigorous literature with a preoccupation for explaining things using...

This visual shows 20 recreations of W.E.B Dubois' data portraits from the 1900, many of which were shown in the “The Exhibit of American Negroes”. It was a part of the Dubois Challenge on twitter...

This work is the first visual atlas that offers a wide overview about the phenomena included under the notion of water grabbing. Stealing, limiting, disrupting or interfering local communities...

Weather Browser is an interactive tool to visually look up and compare detailed weather data. Select a day and Weather Browser visualizes temperature, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction...