Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has made possible the expansion the mapping to previously unmapped areas, thanks to technological advancements such as Web 2.0 and satellite imagery....
The second part of “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning” series, this installment describes a tradeoff fundamental to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using scroll-linked...
Dining out is a common form of entertainment, but can it also be risky? 667 cases of food poisoning outbreaks were reported in England & Wales between 1992 and 2009. That is 1 outbreak every 9...
This project visualizes the challenges of transliterating Chinese names into the Hanyu Pinyin system, a standardized method for converting Chinese characters into the Latin alphabet for global...
Rodent Activity Transmissions* (RAT) systems uses real-time data to allow us a peek into the lives of a colony of naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber). The project consist of a data artwork "A...
My digital double and me is an infopoem reflecting on the insanely specific and biased inferences algorithms make about us, in a continuous exchange of informations between platforms. Its genesis...
Sam Kerr is one of the greatest strikers that women's football has ever seen. But finding data to show just how good she is and how she stacked up against other greats of the game proved to be an...
The multimedia long read ‘Italia. The Airship Crash Chronicle’ by Russian news agency TASS is dedicated to one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Arctic exploration. It chronicles the...
This project visualizes the performance of every World Cup player in the last 50 years. We generated a statistical fingerprint for each player based on 16 metrics, and created an interactive...
The Graphic Continuum is our view of the many different types of visualizations available to us when we encode and present data. We’ve plotted nearly 90 different graphics across five main...
An interactive visualization of the food poisoning outbreaks reported from restaurants in England and Wales from 1992 to 2009. Outbreaks are grouped by cuisine type and category type. Each group...
An exploration of how age, gender, and race affect casting of professional productions of Shakespearean plays. A deep dive into data from 1,000+ productions of 10 Shakespearean plays produced...
The visualization returns a map of the thirty countries that receive more aids from the European Union.
The size of the countries on the map are changed in proportion to the funds received....
MTA Ridership Changes due to COVID-19 recounts what happened to New York City during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Data visualization agency TWO-N began the project wanting to create...
How does it feel to not hear? According to Xu Kaifeng, a person with near-total deafness, living in a world without sound feels like you don't exist at all. For those with healthy ears, it's hard...
FiveThirtyEight has long been a leader in election modeling and forecasting. In 2020 we sought to build on our success by making the forecast most useful, understandable, and accessible to a wider...
The fear of an “unknown” illness without a definitive cure creates uncertainty, leading to anxiety and increased sharing of misinformation. Thus any senseless forward of a message, meme or video...
What the online encyclopedia has gained in responsiveness, completeness, and user engagement, it has lost in terms of the quality of its editorial design, typography, and illustrations. This...
Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute and they are having a devastating effect on the environment.
The Reuters Graphics team visualised plastic bottle...
In partnership with Future Cities Catapult, After the Flood turned London's boroughs into a choropleth - or series of shaded cells - that can contain numerous types of data more effectively than a...
Due to its popularity and to its policy that allows anyone to edit pages, Wikipedia often becomes a battlefield, where different factions try to impose their view on controversial topics...
Curbing global warming, halting the loss of biodiversity, and building a just and equitable economy are among the world’s most pressing needs. To track progress and reveal systemic obstacles to...
In 2020, the western monarch butterfly population catastrophically declined to its lowest numbers since counts began – from 1.2 million in 1997 down to fewer than 2,000 butterflies. I created this...
We built a chart-bot that generated (and posted to Twitter) a chart of every NBA playoff game . The charts show how each basketball game played out: the lead changes, the unique set of...
We illustrated over 200 masked wrestlers and showed how they are connected by design, geography, and culture. Choose a guided story or explore on your own.
“A Matter of Time” takes a comprehensive look at the nature of long prison terms in the U.S. – how time served in state prisons has grown in recent years, who is serving the longest prison terms,...