By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.

The Big Book of Dashboards presents a comprehensive reference for those tasked with building or overseeing the development of business dashboards. Comprising dozens of examples that address...

What are investors looking for in companies and founders? The data looks at 890 U.S. startups that were founded from 2009-2015 and received at least $20 million in VC and other equity funding.

Friends in Space has been the first social network to extend beyond Earth; a 6 months-long open window to make new friends from all over the world and join astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in her...

Cognitive biases are just tools, useful in the right contexts, harmful in others. They’re the only tools we’ve got, and they’re even pretty good at what they’re meant to do. We might as well get...

Guided by experts, ProPublica calculated death and complication rates for surgeons performing one of eight elective procedures in Medicare, carefully adjusting for differences in patient health,...

The night sky has always accompanied and inspired people. The stories and myths of the cultures of mankind have always found a counterpart in the stars. The project "Sternenhimmel der Menschheit"...

The world of Game of Thrones represented as a transit map. The map incorporates important roads in the series into the routes.

The Gaming industry has changed. In the last five years, cell phones evolved worldwide to process complex games that would otherwise only run on consoles. A gamer - once the image of a young boy...

This A2 fold-out poster was sent out to around 30,000 general practitioners (family doctors) in the UK, in the GP edition of The BMJ. It shows the UK guidance on cancer referral (produced by NICE)...

An examination of the gun killings in the United States.

What role did the neighborhood you grew up in have in shaping your economic opportunities? Author Aaron Williams tells a data story about migration, community, and returning to your roots through...

Men now outnumber women on the planet by 60 million, the highest ever recorded. Preference for sons in India and China is driving the trend, but those two countries are not the only ones struggling...

This map shows in a single image the people who lost their lives as they tried to reach European shores from 2005 to 2015. These men, women, and children were fleeing conflict and instability in...

A data visualization essay exploring Brussels and its people. It shows how diverse and culturally rich Brussels can be. It provides plain facts that make you proud to live in this city while...

Gender pay gap for US employees - published by WSJ.

An attempt to visually represent the careers of — almost — all the football players in the last century. "Legends, One-club men and Journeymen" is a visual essay that is both a guided tour...

Modern colonialism began in the 15th century and peaked in 1914, when Europeans ruled a majority of the world’s countries. Decolonization began after World War I and accelerated following World...

What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface. Human light...

Data visualization project for Al Majalla magazine. This project features two full-page visualizations for the article The Scramble for Africa, published in November 2023. Designed for both English...

Part of a twelve-strong interactive series, this project commemorates 100 years since the Russian October Revolution. This unorthodox Minecraft-styled infographic handles the basics of an economic...

The USDA updated its plant hardiness map for the first time in 11 years. The updated map opens up new possibilities for home gardeners, but there are limits. Let’s explore how the map has changed...

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...

A recent Naked Data newsletter pointed me to this article on Wikipedia which gives a list of when the world was predicted to end throughout recorded history. It is a timeline of when the world...

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...

How informal street vendors define the sonic landscape of Mexico’s capital

Quadrigram is a product by the fine people at Bestiario_, a design firm with more than 10 years experience in the wonderful field of data visualization. @quadrigram

The Social Credit System is a national reputation system in development by the Chinese Government, which will give to each Chinese citizen a score based on their identity online and their behaviour...

This project visualizes city street network orientation, configuration, and entropy using OpenStreetMap data and the Python-based OSMnx package. Each of these cities is represented by a polar...

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...