Nonprofit groups and smaller businesses may not have what qualifies as “big data,” but their data still has important stories to tell. Centre for Cities is one such organization. A leading...

Insect biodiversity in the City of Melbourne

The world's biggest iceberg - more than twice the size of Greater London - is on the move. A23a, as it’s known, broke away from the Antarctic coastline way back in 1986, yet for more than three...

Water is a basic human right, but even today over 2 billion people worldwide don't have access to safe drinking water. Some countries have easy access to drinkable tap water while others have to...

This website is the virtual counterpart to the book ‘Parliament’. The book explores the double-sided relationship between space and politics by documenting and comparing the plenary halls of the...

In the words of Bill de Blasio and his team members, the New York City government would be at the brink of definitively rooting out crime, that is to say putting an end to all forms of violence...

Burning coal comes with a wide range of health impacts, and the corporations burning it are to blame. Just ten companies are estimated to be responsible for almost two-thirds of the health impacts...

‘Inspiring a Movement: The Warming Stripes’ is a visualisation depicting and evaluation how Ed Hawkin’s famous ‘Warming Stripes’ graphic has grown over the last 4 years, becoming a global symbol of...

Kochi, a bustling coastal city in the Southern part of India, grapples with a growing waste crises threatening its charm, heritage and sustainability. This project dives deep into the city’s waste...

Reuters investigates the persistent use of flammable cladding materials in high-rise buildings, including those used on Grenfell Tower in London. The piece focuses on a devastating fire that...

Explore ongoing campus transformations. Track construction progress and completion dates through interactive visuals on our college map.

This is an Analysis of Lighting in Mit design Campus

‘See how global warming has changed the world since your childhood’ sets out to shift people's understanding of climate change from an abstract future problem to something that is deeply personal...

"A Year of Light" explores the evolution of the day-night cycle throughout the year and according to latitude. This visualization presents a luminous identity map of several cities around the...

The first high speed train connected the cities of Tokyo and Osaka in a train circulating at 200km/h. This visualisation takes a look at how the Tokaido Line has evolved.

The Global Map of Accessibility is an interactive map that lets you view the travel time between almost any point on Earth and the nearest population centre of 50,000 or more people. The data...

The project comprises a publicly accessible, interactive webmap, aimed to communicate the rise and fall of London’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) temporally over the course of the 2 year COVID...

In New York City, currently around 2 million people commute in and out of the city by car every day; only 1% of these cars are currently electric. Hence, with the goal of achieving an electrified...

This infographic presents the raw data of global meat production as the Earth’s yearly receipt, while the main graph visualizes it logarithmically to present proportional size differences. It...

Road killings in Taiwan are becoming more and more severe, with gray in the background to indicate "roads", and red gradients for species extinction to show the spread of blood, like only...

The map of nesting biogeography is based almost exclusively on nesting data that were provided by members of the WIDECAST network to create the Atlas of Sea Turtle Nesting Habitat for the Wider...

Plastic is ubiquitous in our everyday lives – so much that we cannot imagine living without it, nor see how dependent we have become on it. Plastic is in almost everything. Plastic production...

This map uses NASA data to visualize the estimated maximum near surface air temperature on August 28, 2100 at over a million points on the earth's surface. Users can compare the situation with...

Meet America's busiest bikes! We sifted bike share data from four cities throughout the USA - Chicago, New York, Washington and Philadelphia. Our goal was to find the busiest bike and map its...

From Shanghai to Seattle, the world’s cities are built on sand - massive amounts of sand. It’s in the cement and concrete that make the bulk of most buildings. The glass in those buildings’ windows...

Climate TRACE is comprehensive emissions tracking covering GHG and other air pollution from millions of sources around the world. Our data is built by a global non-profit coalition of scientists...

Our transport system generates huge amounts of data. For instance, on a typical weekday, we collect 19 million smartcard ticketing transactions that offer a valuable insight into the number of...

Custom Polygon Calendar featuring weather data for Tavares, Florida. Each square is split into two segments featuring the high and low temperature. More details are surfaced when a user hovers over...

If you look at maps of mortality rates across the country, you might notice a pattern showing up again and again. It's a crescent shape that starts in southeastern Virginia and curves around the...