Many of us grew up playing Spades. But very little information exists on how the card game developed and grew to become a fixture in African-American households. This Spades project is an attempt...
Craft beer is so hot right now. You might think our biggest city, New York City, is the best, but not quite. After analyzing over 1,600 breweries, New York comes in 16th out of the 800+ biggest...
A collection of animated gifs replaying various sport matches and events.
The "timeline triangles" visualization works with several sport disciplines when teams or individuals win by scoring...
The Royal Dutch Cycling Federation wanted to attract more people to the fascinating sport of Freestyle BMX. Targeting live spectators and jury members, we developed an engaging platform that...
When should you pitch your tent in Yosemite? Or when is it better to opt for lodging in Grand Canyon? And when should you visit Yellowstone to avoid the crowds?
This visualization explores...
Baseball is a sport rooted in rules and regulations. Everything in the game is standardized, planned, and coordinated, based on a guideline or precedent. Everything, that is, but the park itself:...
In the runup to the summer games, Reuters showed how Tokyo brings a double whammy of heat and humidity to the olympic athletes, posing a high risk of heat illness.
Olympic athletes were to...
Kekki is an experienced game analyst. In this interactive visualization, he guides us through the landscape of mobile games while traversing through a beautiful forest. The adventure is available...
For many of us (these co-authors included), the release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in March 2020 provided a welcome escape from the early months of COVID-19. You could spend your days in...
In the 1970s an Australian historian suggested the idea of the 'Barassi Line', a line on the map that divided Australia roughly in two, based on the sport they preferred. On one side of the line...
The World Cup is a weeks-long feast of sport. This suite of pages gave readers an expansive way to follow the action with live match stats and commentary, team lineups and history, a fun take on...
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France. Due to the intense nature of the sport, doping has been long associated with the race. While doping in...
This infographic comprehensively maps out all the ways of winning in different sports, clustering the world's sports according to what counts as winning (eg, being the fastest, being the most...
Every year, many Americans go to great lengths to get into the Christmas spirit. They carry trees into their homes, climb up onto various objects to hang strings of lights, and spend hours...
Today, our identities are marked and defined by the technology tracking us. 'Shifting Gears’ resulted from a classroom project based on visualising an aspect from our personal lives. This...
Assisting people to live a healthy lifestyle is something we value. We believe that data, when collected reliably and understood intuitively, can play a significant role in helping us understand...
An attempt to visually represent the careers of — almost — all the football players in the last century.
"Legends, One-club men and Journeymen" is a visual essay that is both a guided tour...
During the 2018 World Cup we predicted the results of each game in real-time. The result was a collection of animated charts visualizing the triumph and heartbreak of the entire tournament. Readers...
This infographic examines the evolution of Argentina's national football team, bridging the past and the present. It draws inspiration from heartening stories that surfaced after Argentina's 2022...
20 years ago, he played his first professional match. Roger Federer has now won his 20th Grand Slam title. A data analysis of all the matches he has played reveals how he became the best tennis...
We illustrated over 200 masked wrestlers and showed how they are connected by design, geography, and culture. Choose a guided story or explore on your own.
Only a handful of batsmen over the years have reached the 10,000 run milestone in limited overs international cricket. This interactive charts out how one of the modern greats, Virat Kohli, got...
"The Kit War" is an interactive and filterable data story about the apparel brands of the 500 top football clubs and all 211 FIFA affiliated national teams. It analyses the distribution of...
This interactive data explorer is built by acclaimed designer Moritz Stefaner and his team at Truth & Beauty, using Google Trends data. It’s also the second in the Google News Lab’s series of...
Visualize various top pitchers performances throughout the 2017 season using these versatile heatmaps. You can easily see patterns around when pitchers gave up runs throughout the season from a...