This animated chart tracks the U.S. economy sector by sector, and follows employment and wages since 2006, just before the crash. The circles indicate industries, sized by their average number of...

Forms of Attraction clusters images from the MET's Costume Institute into items sharing similar form. This was done through machine learning to uncover new relationships between items beyond...

Last year almost 4 million babies are born in the US. Although thinking of 4 million unique names is pretty difficult, theoretically it is not impossible. Nonetheless, there are always many...

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....

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How is the world’s energy and electricity generated? What is the world’s largest power station? How does solar power compare to wind energy, geothermal energy or hydropower? How much of the world’s...

The Goldilocks principle states that something must fall within certain margins, as opposed to reaching extremes. When the effects of the principle are observed, it is known as the Goldilocks...

We've seen our country's borders countless times, on maps, train schedules, weather forecasts. But how well can we draw them from memory? For the national holiday, we challenged our readers with a...

Explore how your choices impact your child's education in the Chicago public school system.

A Voronoi diagram visualisation of air quality in Bristol, England.

Imagine a world where machines can be controlled by thought alone. This is the promise of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)—using computers to decode and translate human thoughts into machine...

This is a personal map of New York City showing all of our movements during one year. We tracked our location with OpenPaths which is represented in blue and red. The yellow dots are locations...

An analysis of the transactions of the teams playing the 2014 Winter National Tournament. Where do new players come from? What new reinforcements have arrived in the country? Explore these and more...

This data visualization shows the true numbers of a false migrant emergency in Europe. Designed for La Repubblica for the "highlight" section (called Primo piano), the first pages of the...

If the world were a village of 100 people, what would its composition be? This set of 20 posters is built on statistics about the spread of population around the world under various classifications.

New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are rapidly spreading through the U.S. These coronavirus variants are being studied because they may be more transmissible, cause more severe disease, or reduce the...

Displaying in an internal class exhibition, a series of data visualisations are displayed to reveal the story of water consumption in households. Soap is chosen to be the media and main theme of...

An Infographic related to safety tips around mobile phone usage, with handy information pieces in three parts. The first part is dedicated to 10 short tips, such as: ‘What safety conditions do i...

Fingers Of Time is a representation of time data. Initially developed as part of a collection of watchfaces for the Pebble smartwatch and launched on Kickstarter. It visualizes time by breaking the...

Sociotope is a social media experiment made with WebGL. It visualizes the data you left in social networks in a way you possibly haven't seen before. Using motion as a metaphor for relevance,...

Radiohead has been my favorite band for a while, so I am used to people politely suggesting that I play something “less depressing.” Much of Radiohead’s music is undeniably sad, and this post...

It's not a hoax, a myth, or a conspiracy among scienctists. As we argue about the path we take, let's recall the facts that compel the journey.

“Even at Shanghai’s ‘marriage market’, it’s hard to find a date” is a data analysis of personal matchmaking ads. The Paper and Sixth Tone collected hundreds of ads from the “marriage market” in...

A visual experiment that evaluates the evolving graphic symbolism of the United States, True Colors is a collection of flags generated from the 2016 American Community Survey. Each flag is based on...

A portrayal of recurring sounds in the “Sirens” chapter of Ulysses. The implied musicality of this chapter, coupled with the mechanistic-if-it-were-not-intentional recurrence of certain words,...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the greatest endeavours ever undertaken by the human race, representing the peak of scientific ingenuity and global cooperation. This data...

Public opinion on 32 big issues over the past eight years

How far into a relationship was the first time Americans had sex, moved in with someone, and so on. 

This evaluation of all Bundestag elections since 1990 shows the communities in which the parties have always brought their strongest results - and the factors that make up these strongholds.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes hourly Air Quality readings at hundreds of sites nationwide, and produces an Air Quality Index (AQI) that measures how healthy the air is at...