This story explains how and why hunching over your phone is destroying your posture and exposing those around you to manifold dangers. Data, diagrams, videos and animation show how and why we get...
Think you need fast internet speeds to stream Netflix, Amazon or YouTube smoothly? Think again. The Wall Street Journal’s extensive test data shows that typical U.S. households don’t use most of...
Looking at the bunches of lab tests I had gathered since 2003, I decided to visualize my TSH lab results and other thyroid hormones. I was diagnosed with Hyperthyroidism and Graves Disease in 2003,...
Bean is an adult green sea turtle from Costa Rica; one of only 90,000 nesting females remaining in the wild. Bean was tagged with a satellite transmitter by the Sea Turtle Conservancy so we can...
We are all familiar with the layout of the long-standing Periodic table, as well as the distribution of its constituent elements, but who discovered them, and when?
2019 was named the...
A visualization of wind direction, frequency, and speed at the airports of nine major cities in the US from January to October, 2018. Cities in include New York, Charlotte, Jacksonville,...
Artwork for BBC Science Focus.
The visualization shows the space debris, categorized according to their average distance from Earth and the type of object.
For each type, the number of...
Warmer ocean waters are undermining ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Glaciers are melting or cracking into pieces. Now scientists have to figure out how much the vanishing ice will make...
A VR app for laymen and astronomers that visualizes X-ray data of astronomical objects from the ESA satellite XMM-Newton. Data of >1,000 X-ray sources generate unique data objects. Their sizes,...
The main visual interface for threaded conversations on the internet (forums) is still mostly text. In this work we give a full reimagining of the forum reading experience through the use of graph...
The special project "ISS: Iconic Service to Science" is the most extensive history of the emergence and development of the International Space Station. You can understand how much the station has...
The three infographics pages in the Annual Report of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) provide a vivid insight into the diverse funding activities of the Foundation in 2018:
An overview...
Majestic analyses billions of URLs a day to maintain a map of how the Web links together.
This map is valuable to digital marketers - however, the process of analysing linking relationships can...
This stunning piece of digital journalism is the result of a successful collaboration between the ABC's Tokyo bureau and the Story Lab team here in Australia.
Super Kamiokande is a giant science...
Many diseases hold cyclical patterns as a result of climate changes throughout a year. Influenza, or 'the flu', causes the most illnesses in the colder, winter months. However, an outbreak of swine...
The vision of the future of healthcare.
Patients will be engaged, providing them with smart technology so they can closely monitor themselves. They can have devices that will constantly measure...
The next-generation mobile network promises faster internet, lower response times and the ability to connect billions of more devices. But as places like China, the United States, Australia and...
The Journal plotted the location of every satellite currently in orbit, charting and color coding each by use and by country of origin, to illustrate the race to profit from space. This visually...
The increased industrialization of farm animals has not only affected the number of animals processed every year, but has also had immense environmental effects on the air, land, and water of the...
Nickel allergy is highly related to eczema and atopic dermatitis. Even though it is impossible to completely avoid nickel in our diet, lowering nickel consumption could help manage these skin...
The second part of “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning” series, this installment describes a tradeoff fundamental to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using scroll-linked...
The goal of this research project was to make it easy for adults with asthma to understand the results of their lung function test. The infographic is meant to be tailored with the individual...
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is one of the most important techniques used in Biology. It is used almost every day by researchers across biological sciences, clinical medicine, and forensics....
About 35% of current jobs in the UK are at high risk of computerisation over the following 20 years, according to a study by researchers at Oxford University and Deloitte.
Oxford University...
On the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) is setting its sights on returning to the moon, and going far beyond. This interactive...
Eating a poor quality diet high in junk food is linked to a higher risk of obesity, depression, digestive issues, heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and early death.
This...
Dimensionality reduction is a powerful technique used by data scientists to look for hidden structure, producing visualizations that reveal patterns and clusters in data. Even though the data is...
A series of graphics produced to compliment the main SR15 report on the impacts of Global Warming of 1.5°C. The FAQ graphics are intended to back up the graphics in the report and make the subject...
Since humans are at the top of the biological chain, the cumulative toxicity of persistent organic pollutants and other substances can be amplified many times through media such as microplastics....