Jim Sergent analyzed the results from 24 years of NFL drafts to show how quarterbacks selected in the first round fall short of expectations more often than not. If you can't see the graphic,...

Subreddits that had "active" users in common between 2015-2016 are linked by a directed edge whose weight is proportional to the fraction of users from one subreddit that were also active in the...

Germany would have made the cut, Australia would have topped its group and Argentina would be on their way home – using expected goals, we calculated what the knockout stages of the 2018 football...

My baby Ethan (18 months) went on his first summer break. He finished the nursery and had almost three weeks off. I took most of the time off and focused on spending quality time with him. I wanted...

We feel awkward when we see empty space. Even if we wanted to, we can’t fill the space below because only one female athletics world record has been broken in the last 28 years in 9 events...

This grid visualises all the possible scenarios for one of the group stages of this summer's World Cup. It was still all to play for as the final set of games began, so this chart helped football...

Entrepreneurs who support other founders create a multiplier effect that helps entrepreneurial ecosystems grow. Endeavor Global studied the international community of Turkish founders to better...

The number of Americans who do yoga has more than doubled in less than a decade.

The artwork shows ascents of Everest and K2 in the last 20 years

This project aims to give details of all the medals that Great Britain has won at the Summer Olympic Games, not just the type of medal but also whether male, female or open, and whether as an...

As of March 10, Russell Westbrook is averaging a triple-double. He is on track to become the first player to average a triple-double for an entire season since Oscar Robertson did it back in 1962....

The Tour de France features a number of “races within the race” beyond the overall competition for the winner’s yellow jersey. There are other winner’s jerseys for the best young rider, the best...

On the 20th October 2017, Airbnb asked people on Twitter to describe their dream trips in three emojis - this is the story of those emojis.

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...

Combat sports are part of the fabric of Hong Kong culture, best represented by the city’s favourite son: martial artist, film director and actor, Bruce Lee. In this data visualisation we stake Hong...

Inspired by the #journaldataviz, I've collected data on my 1 week vacation in July 2023. During this time we traveled with my family and I helped them around the house. The visualization was...

A visualization about the shared bicycle program and bicycle infrastructure in Austin, Texas with an emphasis on safety and desirability, using multiple large data resources.

Map of the sites and venues of the 2024 Paris Olympics

While living in Seattle, I rode to and from Fremont every day on the Burke Gilman bike trail. Little did I know that everytime I went past NE 70th St, I (along with everyone else) was being...

The annual European Backpacker Index, compiled by priceoftravel.com, is designed to help money-savvy travellers find the cheapest European cities and plan an accurate budget for when they...

To celebrate the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, the Playfair Data team created Tracking Titans, a longform infographic that alerted fans and sports media in near real-time when track and...

Was, wenn Luzern keinen Strom mehr hätte? Könnte die Trinkwasserversorgung noch gewährleistet werden? In dieser forschungsorientierten Arbeit erstellte ich eine visuelle Sammlung von verschiedenen...

This project is an exploration of how much swimming has improved since the beginning of the 20th Century. It includes three different visualizations: the first one focuses in the average speeds of...

The Tour de France is the hardest cycling race in the world. In order to win, it takes a combination of different riders on each team playing their part in the peloton. Cyclists have to sacrifice...

From the period of 2005-2022, Rafael Nadal has won 14 French Open titles in 18 years. He won an outstanding 97.1% of his matches during this time period! My visualisation emphasises his...

In 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at THE UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, he proposed "Let the seed of peace take root and grow in the hearts of people all over the...

How did Steph go from being a one-man revolution and the first unanimous MVP to being almost an afterthought in the race? Well, two things: The already-great Golden State Warriors signed one...

A complete review of the last ten MLB World Series.

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.