For centuries, medicine has failed women. Despite the many advancements we have made in society in recent decades, gender-biased healthcare is still a significant problem very few people are...
PeCan Knowledge Base: Making sense of complex genomics
PeCan Knowledge Base (PeCan) on St. Jude Cloud (part of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) is a pioneering resource that began as a...
This graphic tells a small story about bicycle ridership in Seattle. It does so with a line chart, a sunburst, and a novel chart type: table cartograms (TGRAM) in a treemap. The TGRAM encodes...
The work takes "acupuncture" as the theme, and takes 64 kinds of diseases, 59 kinds of complications, 361 normal meridians, 52 ear points, 15 human meridians, 6 kinds of basic acupuncture methods,...
This visualization explores the rapid growth and competitive landscape of large language models (LLMs), a cornerstone of artificial intelligence, from 2018 to 2024. It highlights the key players,...
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....
The epidemic of a new coronavirus infection occurred suddenly for the whole world. On March 11, 2020, the WHO Director-General defined the situation with the spread of a new coronavirus infection...
Anaptár is a unique, informative poster calendar, which is a source of fascinating new discoveries. It provides lots of information beside enumerating days: visualizing data on the Sun and the Moon...
The mission of Climate Interactive is to create and share tools that drive effective and equitable climate action. We make climate science accessible to inform climate policy and corporate...
From the minute a person quits smoking, their body goes into healing mode. I designed a temporal timeline of how their body is healing itself. My approach to this graphic is not a scientific...
The infographic is structured on 2 levels: one more internal, relating to the 2021 figure, and one more external, showing the trend compared to the figure 10 years earlier. The structure of the...
With help from Google, police can drop a virtual dragnet over crime scenes that locate people’s phones within about 10 feet of accuracy. A warrant launches a three-step process, which starts with...
For the past two and half years, the world has been overtaken by an unprecedented global pandemic that changed our behaviors, economies, and uprooted our lives. From the start, scientists and...
Dog genetics reveal surprising relationships among breeds. When it comes to traits, genetics-based lineages are more telling than human-made categories. Includes comparison plots and explainer...
To everything there is a season, and diseases are no different. Google search patterns show us what health issues people worry about, when they worry about them, and how epidemics spread through...
GSK believes that innovation starts when we stop to listen.
This generative data visualisation aims to start the conversation about the future of health innovation by providing an immersive and...
This infographic creates a narrative built out of qualitative data which maps India’s nuclear journey since colonial independence. The story outlines how a country marred by the pangs of separation...
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study offers a comprehensive overview of pressing societal issues of mortality and disability on a global scale, encompassing 204 different countries. It...
Some species are so close to extinction, that every remaining member can fit on a New York subway carriage (if they squeeze).
First published early September 2018 on Mona Chalabi's Instagram...
Data-driven research increasingly shows that climate change facilitates the spread of infectious disease. The shifting climate expands habitats for mosquitos, alters animal migration patterns, and...
When the world wide web was first released publicly in 1991, it was quickly adopted. As technology advanced and its benefits became clear, many people started integrating the online world into...
Nature is in crisis, and it’s only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink.
Humans are driving this...
Cosmic voids are vast spaces that contain few or no galaxies—less than one-tenth of the average matter density found in the Universe. They may have been formed by oscillations of matter during the...
From First Spark to the Personal Computer
From Michael Faraday to Steve Jobs, innovators have improved upon the work of those before them—in both direct and indirect ways—to push human progress...
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,...
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....
These animated maps show how the warming climate is bringing ticks and lyme disease to Maine. This distills mountains of climate data into high density graphical displays.
Commissioned by The French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives — CEA Grenoble), Dioramat1—1.Lithium (in French version...
IN bioinformatics, RNA-sequencing is the norm for investigating transcriptome-wide gene expression. These data cover the expression of thousands of genes over many different tissues and conditions....