The way that people invest money has a big impact on how the world evolves. So far, making a financial profit has been the key incentive for the majority of investors. But with the increasing...

A research project exploring the potential of walking to gather environmental data and through multiple walks and visualisations build a rich picture of that area. The project examines creative...

Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, described and even explored – but...

For the EU to achieve the goal of climate neutrality, its member states must significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. And quickly. In order to maintain prosperity at the same time,...

Our OS Maps users created over 300,000 public routes across Great Britain in 2018 (covering some 2,950,000 miles…) and we were curious to see where you most (and least) enjoy exploring. The...

These ‘Monsoon Rainfall Clocks’ describe the monthly rainfall totals between 1905-2015 for India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and the UK. Each gradated coloured curve represents one year, its distance from...

Beautiful Trash visualizes a week of trash collection routes in Cincinnati, OH using the open data from the City of Cincinnati. In addition to the visualization, there is also a YouTube video...

Map of Argentina illustrating typical goods from different regions: mate tea from Entre Rios, pizza from Buenos Aires, churros with caramel from Mar del Plata, chorizo sandwich from Santiago del...

The Solar Rush takes an impressive dataset – global solar farm density – and renders it as a cinematic view of the energy transition. A 3D spike chart is superimposed over a spinning globe, and...

This quilt was designed utilizing a data set from Our World In Data, which tracked the increase in animals killed every year for meat production. In the quilt, red = cows, orange = pigs, and yellow...

Public transit maps occupy a unique place in the mapping world. Unlike most maps, which are designed to satisfy a single purpose, transit maps must strike a careful balance between readability,...

This visualization explores the growth in Las Vegas hotel room inventory, from 1970 to 2018. It highlights notable hotels which have opened and closed during that time, and how they in turn...

Transit isochrone maps are incredibly pretty and tell us lots of things about the cities we live in. They show the area that is reachable within X minutes from an origin. I decided to animate...

An interactive map of the pollution of rivers in Ukraine based on data from the State Agency of Water Resources. There are more than 400 river water control points on the map. You can view up to 16...

This map, created using the U.S. Department of Defense's THOR dataset, shows every recorded bombing mission of the Vietnam War. Each mission is plotted as a single semi-transparent point....

Follow the Brick Road is an engaging look at the roads of Cincinnati, which ultimately focuses on the brick roads of the historic district, an area that was once rated at the most dangerous...

Mapping the cities and places with the worst access.

Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...

The project analyzes air quality trends in Nuevo León from 2019 to 2024, focusing on PM2.5 concentrations in the Monterrey metropolitan area. It examines variations across monitoring stations,...

Wildfires around the world are getting more ferocious and harder to control, as climate changes fuels more extreme heat. In unusually hot, dry seasons like the summer of 2018 in Sweden, the number...

The project was done in partnership with Open Development Mekong to draw attention to pressing developments of the region that will ultimately affect the most disadvantaged. It also attempts to...

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...

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...

This project visualizes data for each delay-causing incident happened on Toronto’s TTC streetcars network during the year 2016. The map-based, interactive application aims to provide an overview...

With the advent of Fast Fashion which is cheap and accessible do we sit back to think and analyze the true cost of fashion. In this viz we breakdown the environmental cost and the cost of...

How will climate change transform the Swiss landscape? In our immersive story, readers travel along Switzerland’s longest river, the Aare, in the year 2075 and explore an environment altered by...

Faced with some of the steepest home prices in the United States, Bay Area residents are searching for cheaper cities to settle down.

>> Seeing, researching and comprehending << The phenomenon of the sun has fascinated mankind time and again, influencing their lives for over thousands of years. But how can the...

A mere 1% of the world’s habitable land is human built-up urban area which includes cities, towns, villages, roads and other human infrastructure. While agriculture takes up half of the world’s...

Having streets in Hungary named after a Hungarian historical figure is nothing unusual. It’s by no means that unheard of to have streets in neighboring countries bear said name, provided  that...