In the 20th century, more than two million whales were hunted, threatening several species with extinction. This visualization highlights the scale of this exploitation by tracing the catches of...

In celebration of the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this month, Visa looks back look back at major historical and cultural milestones in the Olympic and Paralympic Games since 1986.

Artwork for Visual Data, the column on "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera". The visualization shows the retail price of 8 drugs analyzed by UNODC (United Nations Office...

This project brings to life the unique research of the Economic Innovation Group on the fall of economic dynamism in the United States and how most states have been struggling since 2008. It puts...

A global survey by Zumtobel and Fraunhofer IAO, concerning the quality of light in offices provides important insights for user-centered light planning. The study proves, that innovative lighting...

Each year, CLEVER°FRANKE (C°F) publishes a weather chart. In these annual charts, we explore methods to visualize last year's weather. CLEVER°FRANKE has a special affinity with the weather; the...

Across the United States, schools and libraries are facing mounting pressure from conservative groups to remove books they deem to be 'inappropriate'. These challenges often target content...

This project focuses on creating compelling data visualizations showcasing trends and insights from the Himalayan Database, a rich archive documenting mountaineering expeditions in Nepal. The...

What is the most common score in football matches? The "International Football Results" visualization can answer this question, as it compiles the results of 47,400 international men football...

Data is based on crime incident reports provided by Boston Police Department (BPD) documenting the initial details surrounding an incident to which BPD officers respond.

The visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies between the years 1880-2021. These temperatures are based on the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP v4), an estimate of...

Meet the Millennials: one of the largest generations in history is about to move into its prime spending years. Millennials are poised to reshape the economy; their unique experiences will...

The Nuremberg trials prosecuted the leaders of Nazi Germany but did not necessarily end their lives. 70 years after the "the greatest trial in history" was concluded, we trace the life stories of...

Diving deep into a collection of 400 ebooks, I harnessed the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level metric to discern the literary complexity of each text. My goal was to unravel potential patterns: Do...

In the spring of 2021 – as COVID-19 raged across many parts of the world – we asked nearly 19,000 adults in 17 publics where they find meaning in their lives and what keeps them going. While there...

Flags are arranged by the most common combinations of colors. Colors and combinations are arranged in a spectrum-like order: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue, with black and white at the...

Xi'an is an ancient city, so most of the people who live in Xi'an can not figure out the history of this city. In that case, we classified 282 cultural relics protection units in Xi'an, and we...

This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1387 genres by The Echo Nest. The...

The web application Emojinal Ranges analyses the tweets of the 100+ most followed celebrities on twitter regarding the use of emojis. At the center of the analysis is the scope and variance of the...

Comparing the different types of space usage in Berlin, it soon becomes clear: It's a political question how much space the city is willing to use for what purpose. Are forests more important, or...

Datawrapper now checks your colors, so you don’t have to.

How technological innovation is transforming airport terminals. Infographic made for RLab, the science and tech weekly of La Repubblica

The final chapter in his series on the birth of globalisation by Deputy Head of Infographics for the South China Morning Post, Adolfo Arranz is the story of ‘how silver changed the world’. Using...

London Under the Microscope is a short data-driven film, commissioned by the Museum of London, which narrates through visuals and sound the first year of the pandemic. As the world was reshaped by...

In tennis, a golden set is a set which is won without losing a single point. This means scoring the 24 minimum points required to win the set 6–0, without conceding any points. Yaroslava Shvedova...

A vast reservoir of information on human health and behavior lives in our sewage.

The inaugural address contains the first words uttered by a new president. It is an untarnished moment during which the American leader can set the presidential tone, inspire a country, put an...

The Future Frontier is mapping and tracking complex issues and predictions that may shape the society & citizen, environment, technology, and government of future to offer a new way for...

The 2021 U.S. Census surveyed educational attainment for people aged 25 years and older. The largest group of over 85 million people have a Bachelors degree or higher. Fewer than 26 million...

This newspaper design is based on a specific time period: 2019-2022 (i.e. the covid-19 pandemic period), and focuses on the development of clean energy during this four-year period. It is hoped...