PayPal was founded in 1998. Over the course of four years, its founders guided the online payments service provider to one of the biggest tech companies in the world, before being acquired by eBay...

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...

Are all selfies taken by young people? Do men take many selfies? Are we all trying to copy celebrities in choosing how we represent ourselves? Are there any significant differences between selfies...

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...

“Pathways for Girls in Africa” is a storytelling that visualizes data on adolescent girls in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting key indicators like education, employment, and early marriage to...

Using grains of sand to represent individual votes, The Washington Post created a three-dimensional mapping project that unpacks the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This unusual visual story shows...

The food we buy matters. As our food systems become increasingly complex, the food we choose to consume affects not only our own health, but also the environment, our ethical framework, the Earth's...

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...

This gas price ranking visualizes gasoline price data from 61 countries. The information is sorted by average fuel price and by pain at the pump, which measures the percentage of a day's wages that...

700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this digital humanities project celebrates, with a slow surfing site, the influence the Comedy has had on the world’s artistic heritage, inspiring millions...

The analysis of collaboration patterns both between institutions and among countries. Scientific collaborations play an increasingly important role in driving world-leading research. Nature...

With the collapse of investment bank, Lehman Brothers, the 2008 Financial Crisis became full blown economic downturn which eventually led to the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression of...

Through compelling data visualisation and interactive storytelling, this digital story breaks down an often-overlooked environmental challenge: the massive carbon footprint of India's dairy cold...

My graduate thesis was focused on how urban dataviz can be used to investigate the relationship between people’s perception of phenomena happening in cities, and data collected about them. I chose...

Domestic Data Streamers is a team of developers from Barcelona that have taken on the challenge of transforming raw data into interactive systems and experiences. With a background in new media and...

Everything you need to know about Bitcoin explained in three minutes.

This data visualization is part of a story published online by Scientific American in January 2024. It first compares the number of animal emojis, by phylum, available to use and their actual...

In the 1970s an Australian historian suggested the idea of the 'Barassi Line', a line on the map that divided Australia roughly in two, based on the sport they preferred. On one side of the line...

The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble, with recent research suggesting insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate. Amid deforestation, pesticide use,...

This infographic examines the evolution of Argentina's national football team, bridging the past and the present. It draws inspiration from heartening stories that surfaced after Argentina's 2022...

How do creatives – composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers – find the time to produce their opus? Mason Currey investigated the rigid Daily Rituals that hundreds of creatives...

Since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs a year ago, Philippine police have taken hundreds of dead bodies to hospital. Why?

We commemorate the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, tracking his complete silver screen career.

Drugs, guns and sex. Also some data in a project that opens up the Czech crime statistics for the first time in history. Comprehensive and appealing look into police statistics. An important voice...

Artwork for BBC Focus Magazine , Graphic Science Section , covering all the missions intended to reach Mars Source: Nasa

“Equal Victims: The Universal Reality of Intimate Partner Violence” is a pioneering initiative designed to address the critical lack of data on intimate partner violence within LGBTQ+ communities...

This interactive visualization supported the Center for Public Integrity's "Breathless and Burdened: Dying from Black Lung, Buried by Law and Medicine" series, which exposed how eminent doctors and...

Since 1995, the status of girls and women around the world has improved, but a deeper look into the data shows major gaps remain. @ClintonFdn

The visualization shows the Italian cultural production system in 2014, focusing on three factors: the effect of the cultural system on the total tourists’ flow; the effect of the...

Is it possible to create 100 data visualizations from a single, simple dataset? This question started the project, challenging the Ferdio team to demonstrate how even the simplest dataset can be...