Hard-earned lessons from our notebook about information design and infographics. Hands-on, honest and condensed.
We’ve been working in the field of infographics and visual information for...
In an attempt to feel a connection to my fellow female information designers, I visualized the 142 women who responded to Elijah Meeks' data visualization practitioner survey. It shows the...
As the first mathematical monograph in ancient China, Jiuzhang Suanshu is the most important part of the ten books of Suanjing, and also the symbol of the formation of a complete system of ancient...
Hibiol visualizes your browsing history in your browser's new tab page. A timeline displays information for today and a day within the past week. For both days, the 3 websites you spend the most...
TwoTone lets you turn data into sound and music. It uses the process of sonification to let you hear data. It’s free and open-source and runs 100% on the web, so you don’t need to download...
Iron Quest is a community-led data visualisation project which follows a similar format to the Tableau Iron Viz feeder competitions. Each month, a topic is selected and participants are required to...
Charticulator is an interactive authoring tool that enables the creation of bespoke and reusable chart layouts. Charticulator transforms a chart specification into mathematical layout constraints...
It’s hard to find the most appropriate visualization method. But the basic journalistic questions and the structure of your data-set already define your visualization. The Infographic Taxonomy...
This plot is similar to a scatterplot, which is used to understand the relationship between two continuous measures. However, a change plot represents the current values on the x-axis and the...
Initially designed as a gift for a client, the sketchbook was so successful that it became an ongoing project. Today, with over 17 designs, the sketchbooks have traveled the world and are a great...
We submit a visualization design named The Contextual Family Tree. We have a software tool implemented in R that creates a tree from any standard GEDCOM file. It was published in a paper in the...
This fast-paced, data visualization-themed game consists of 31 cards with 6 chart icons on each. There is one and exactly one identical chart icon on any two cards. It’s up to you to find the...
PhoenixMap, a visual analytics system to help analysts understand spatiotemporal distribution patterns and anomalies of many objects. It focuses on solving quantitatively visualizing the spatial...
Flowmap.blue is a free and open source flow map visualization tool. It is designed for representing aggregated numbers of movements between geographic locations. People from different parts of the...
Dataglitches is a collection of examples, drafts and mistakes created while designing data visualisations. It started as a tribute to the unexpected beauty coming out of data and information...
Chartable is a blog written by people who work at Datawrapper, a charting tool for journalists.
Together with our readers, we explore how to create better charts and maps: What to consider when...
The Veins of leaves, the wings of a dragonfly, giraffe body texture, land cracked cracks, honeycomb shape, all have the same unique mesh structure. The most accurate words to describe this...
“Data” has penetrated into every industry and business function area today and has become an important production factor. And we can easily find that in this era of big data, no matter what we want...
The ‘data-to-viz’ project aims to guide anyone to the most appropriate graphic representation for their given dataset.
To do so, major chart types have been classified based on input data...
A video of an interactive visualisation that demonstrates how colour (green, white and grey) is used to display associations, and dissociations, in data. This is fun way of educating people in how...
VR-Viz provides high-level react components to generate 3D visualization in webVR. It also gives a framework which follows a layered approach to describe and construct visualizations in a...
kepler.gl is a data-agnostic, high-performance web-based application for visual exploration of large-scale geolocation data sets. Built on top of deck.gl, kepler.gl can render millions of points...
The Data Visualization Society fosters a community where every member benefits from resources that support growth, refinement, and expansion of data visualization knowledge regardless of expertise...
Plotparade.com is an experimental chart creator tool that lets you create beautiful, unusual looking infographics from simple datasets. It offers a handful of design templates: pick one, copy and...
INFO.GRAPHICS is a new website dedicated to data vis and data-driven storytelling. From deep-dives into historical events to analysis of what numbers really mean, INFO.GRAPHICS curates stories to...
Discover images with data visualization.
You may or may not know of Unsplash, the internet’s source of freely useable images.
Here, on viz.photos you can discover Unsplash’s images in a...
DrWhy is a collection of tools for Explainable AI (XAI). It involves a set of data visualizations, explaining different aspects of predictive Machine Learning models and their performance.
I’ve...
Market Cafe Magazine is the world's first magazine about data visualization founded in 2017 by information designers Tiziana Alocci and Piero Zagami.
Reading Market Cafe Magazine you will hear...
This website allows you to take any picture and split it into thousands particles. The particles are arranged according to color intensities into a histogram.
The Infographic wheel is a handheld design tool - also known as a volvelle - that helps a user select an infographic layout based on the characteristics of their data. Many professionals who work...