This investigation of scientific p-values is anchored by an interactive graphic where users can give "p-hacking" a try on their own. These are tricky statistical concepts, made accessible to all...

The Interactive Scientific Poster „Dynamic Planet” was designed and developed for the exhibition „Focus Earth” of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. One of the main...

The interactive installation On Broadway represents life in the 21st century city through a compilation of images and data collected along the 13 miles of Broadway that span...

In 2012 I published a 6-panel infographic explaining the complexities of the Iranian internet. Today, more than ever, we know that censorship is not just happening in countries with oppressive...

The Counted is a project by the Guardian and you; working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015, to monitor their...

Gender pay gap for US employees - published by WSJ.

In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the...

The IBM Watson News Explorer uses the AlchemyData News API to automatically construct a news information network and present large volumes of news results in an understandable fashion. It uses...

How music taste evolved - every top 5 song, from 1958-2016. 

As a follow-up to last week’s visualization of Old Light and New Light, I wanted to make a single map, of the whole world, comparing NASA’s new 2016 Earth At Night image to the 2012 version. Using...

The goal of this project is to use data to allow people to explore an average financial situation under a variety of constraints. We often hear comments by politicians or opinion writers that if...

Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute and they are having a devastating effect on the environment. The Reuters Graphics team visualised plastic bottle...

The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...

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...

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...

With the powerful Hurricane Irma approaching the continental U.S, we sought to visualize and make sense of the some of the dangers facing those in Irma’s path, creating two maps and a chart to...

Gender inequalities are thought to have first appeared with the advent of agriculture, when a clear distinction was made between the role of women and men in all spheres of social life. Men in...

FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves. As for me, I'm Nathan Yau and I have...

A comprehensive guide to a very complicated show. HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones returns to screens Sunday for season 4 to titillate viewers with gratuitous nudity, violence and Peter Dinklage....

This design is one of my course assignments, according to the computer query some information about the recycling of materials, analyzed and simplified, combined with some illustrations design...

In 2010 New York City added 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but that number means little to most people because few of us have a sense of scale for atmospheric...

When you're hanging out at the beach and you gaze off into the horizon, do you know what is across the ocean from you? http://http://caiweiyi.com/

Capture the now with Kennedy. A new way to mark moments in time complete with surrounding context of the things happening around you. One tap and Kennedy will collect data about where you're...

The year 2018 marks a century since some women in the United Kingdom were awarded the right to vote in and stand for elections. A hundred years later, do we have equal gender representation yet? In...