We worked with the Iran Media Program to map a complex constellation of leaders and governing bodies involved in Internet censorship in Iran. It visualizes the relationships between different...

China's imports overall are down by 14.6% over 2015. Find out what happens if this decline continues for the rest of the year - or worsens - and how that loss compares to each country's...

A geophysical investigation of environmental data and exploring new ways to communicate this complex data to the public. The issue of air pollution from road traffic is especially topical at the...

The multimedia long read ‘Italia. The Airship Crash Chronicle’ by Russian news agency TASS is dedicated to one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Arctic exploration. It chronicles the...

A report from ETH Zurich recently re-published by Harvard economics department, mapping out the various ethnic groups around the world. We were curious how this might compare with modern...

Left Behind is the latest in a series of campaign-oriented data products created for UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Launched to coincide with International Women's Day 2015, Left Behind allows...

The U.S. Department of Labor tracks how many people die at work, and why. The latest numbers were released in April and cover the last seven years through 2013.

Interactive map presents the structure of an oil platform "Prirazlomnaya" (Gazprom company). The journalists of the Kommersant publishing house took a series of video interviews with employees...

Earth’s average Surface Temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists. Global temperatures in 2024 were 1.28 degrees Celsius above the agency’s...

This was done as a part of a 2 weeks Geo-visualisation module at the National Institute of Design, Bengaluru. This is an online data article on terror groups in India. The Data set was taken...

The Infinite Drum Machine can create beats using sounds from the everyday world. Thanks to the Philharmonica Orchestra, London, for contributing some sounds to this project.

Yaps and fin slaps, growls and groans—whales use a wide range of sounds to communicate. But only five whale species are known to sing, with humpbacks the unrivaled musical masters of the sea.  This...

Aretha Franklin’s genius redefined music and spanned genres, helping her amass 73 hits— songs ranked in a week’s 100 most popular by Billboard—over her 60-year career. Today her timeless talent...

After two Boeing 737 MAX planes crashed within six months of each other, the Journal set out to answer the question of what went wrong in a visual explainer created with painstaking accuracy. This...

Our goal for the Data Culture Team Visualization was to showcase the team in a way that we felt represented the unique personalities and overall culture of the team. Since all of us were included...

After having discovered that his steps were being monitored by a smartphone, he decided to take advantage of all unused collected data. Believing in the value of simplicity and following the...

Earthquakes are one of the most common natural phenomena. Most of them are unnoticed by humans because they have low magnitudes. However, the massive tremblors can be devastating and deadly to...

The globe of economic complexity dynamically maps out the entire world production of goods to create an economic landscape of countries around the globe. @romsson

A week before to receive the first dose of the vaccine for Covid-19 I was diagnosed with the disease. Guided by doctors to stay at home and monitor variations in temperature and oxygenation, I also...

As the first mathematical monograph in ancient China, Jiuzhang Suanshu is the most important part of the ten books of Suanjing, and also the symbol of the formation of a complete system of ancient...

Researchers pinpoint the top 15 “Sleeping Beauties,” studies published years ago that are now the talk of the town

Navigating around town, you're probably aware of road designations: Avenues and Boulevards and Streets and Roads and so on. However, it's hard to get an overall view of the patterns they form as...

Huizhou ink is a treasure of Chinese ink making skills and one of the “scholar's four jewels”，It has distinctive features, unique skills, high quality and rich scientific and technological...

Last April was the 50 years anniversary of the first call done by Martin Cooper using the first mobile phone in history, which was big as a brick. I wanted to find out more about that first model,...

Connecting Speckles is a data selfie. A data selfie is a visual representation of oneself with an underlying narrative or theme of what the individual wants to convert about themselves or a...

The Colours of TinTin is an abstract representation of the 24 book covers of the 'Adventures of TinTin' and homage to 'Ligne Claire', a style of drawing pioneered by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi...

The GA4 Swift from Playfair Data addresses the challenge faced by organizations this year following the introduction of Google Analytics 4 ("GA4"). In GA4, reporting is now organized around...

This visualization represents all the described species of birds in the world (11,188 species, based on 2022 data), although this number is likely an underestimate. Each element in the...

This was the first approach of data visualisation for the Sabinal River Regenaration project in Chiapas, México. The image relates geographic and mobility information that would be the foundation...

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