Ancient Chinese inventions include many common items in use today, amongst them paper, silk, matches, gunpowder, and even toothbrushes. The graphic looks at some of these inventions, sorting them...

I spent a week on the couch with Tarantino’s oeuvre, watching people die and swear a blue streak. When someone was killed by a gun or a sword or a venomous snake, or someone was called a...

What would David Bowie’s music look like through the lens of data visualization? This is what designer Valentina D'Efilippo and researcher Miriam Quick set out to explore in OddityViz – a visual...

Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

How much is a trillion dollars? Exactly. Who knows? Nobody. But here are a load of trillion dollar values visualized so you can at least *see* what $trillion looks like.

In two centuries, the world has been dramatically transformed by a series of interconnected moments-the breakthroughs, creations, discoveries, innovations, revolutions and momentous human...

In May 2020, the death of George Floyd set in motion an unprecedented shift in public consciousness around systemic racism in the United States. Spearheaded by #BlackLivesMatter, mass...

“The contribution of Spanish companies on the Sustainable Development Goals" is the sixth of a series of reports that the SDGs Observatory of Esade and La Caixa Foundation have been working on for...

Winds Through Time: Ice Age Impacts on Climate is an interactive exhibit at the Mesa Lab that allows visitors to see changes in wind and climate based on real-time changes in topography through the...

This is a project I worked on while I was an intern - mandatory internship part of my M.Sc. course - at DensityDesign Research Lab. I design and developed the website. The project is a first...

The increased industrialization of farm animals has not only affected the number of animals processed every year, but has also had immense environmental effects on the air, land, and water of the...

Every dot here is a package. Position of a package is determined by force based graph layout algorithm and usually clusters together packages that depend on each other. Some packages are...

A cozy quilted piece of data art. It measures roughly 11×16 inches, was assembled on my sewing machine, and quilted by hand. Each quilt block represents a book that I read throughout 2023. Color...

Obamacare’s insurance marketplaces are in a precarious position. Aetna quit the Obamacare marketplaces last week, leaving Nebraska and Delaware. In Iowa, a smaller plan called Medica has...

PeCan Knowledge Base: Making sense of complex genomics PeCan Knowledge Base (PeCan) on St. Jude Cloud (part of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) is a pioneering resource that began as a...

In 1918, the First World War ended and millions of men returned from the front line to their wives and sweethearts. Two years later, Britain experienced a sudden spike in birth rate, a ‘baby boom’,...

To investigate the threat from wildfire to communities across the West, The Arizona Republic and USA TODAY carried out a level of analysis usually reserved for academics and scientists. We analyzed...

At the end of 2021, we created a visualization of our work for our annual greeting card and it worked so well that it launched a new tradition at Voilà:. Each year, we would create something...

This website allows you to take any picture and split it into thousands particles. The particles are arranged according to color intensities into a histogram.

Originally published in 1995, one of the most iconic resources in the coffee industry, the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, has been the industry standard for over two decades. In 2016, this...

Interactive website to explore the evolution of world population against major historical events.

I visualized the movement of the buses running in NYC in the morning on February 12, 2019. The bus records are gathered from the MTA website. Each line shows a movement of a bus between one record...

The advanced equipment and performance data of the fifth generation fighter "J-20" in China are introduced by means of information diagrams. The basic information of Chinese military aircraft in...

The attack by IS-related groups on the Philippine city of Marawi has highlighted the increasing presence of the militant group in Southeast Asia and has set alarm bells ringing.

Mirador is a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets. It enables users to discover correlation patterns and derive new hypotheses from the data.

With the notorious New York City heating regulations, finding the perfect temperature in one’s apartment during the winter can be a difficult task. I began a wasteful habit of running my air...

When numbers grow so large as to be incomprehensible, those numbers become easy to ignore. As a visual artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg felt compelled to physically manifest the mounting death...

Segmentation expense, incomes and participating in the working class in the 1950s and in the 2011s, the categories are: housing and municipal rats, working women, working men, transport and...

The work want to create awareness about chronic pain and let people understand what it is. The data came from the health survey of 2017 in England, published December 2020 from the Public Health of...

Background: Creating visualizations that include multiple dimensions of the data while preserving spatial structure and readability is challenging. Here we demonstrate the use of geofaceting to...