“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...

Earlier this year, my friend Elijah made a bold claim: that most people in data visualization end up leaving, because there’s something wrong with the current state of the field. It stirred quite a...

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...

Background: Creating visualizations that include multiple dimensions of the data while preserving spatial structure and readability is challenging. Here we demonstrate the use of geofaceting to...

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...

Exploration of the shape of hashtag conversations at Tableau's 2017 conference. The sonar chart type of each hashtag shows how the conversation evolved in each hour that someone tweeted about it,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Diagrammm: Beyond the Image Data visualization has become a modern tool of communication that reveals a power of data. With it help stories hidden in figures could be told in a clear and...

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...

As a job-seeker in the budding field of data visualization, it can be difficult to know which role and organization would best fit your needs. Maybe you're an engineer who wants to also dabble in...

  Webeyez product oversees the front-end performance of your eComm website. It helps your tech team to identify, analyse and evaluate technical issues in comparison to your competitors....

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...

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...

Statistical fallacies are common tricks data can play on you, which lead to mistakes in data interpretation and analysis. Explore some common fallacies, with real-life examples, and find out how...

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...

The R, Python and D3.js graph galleries are three websites that display more than a thousand chart examples with their reproducible code, using the three main programming languages currently used...

INFO WE TRUST shows you how to make information people can believe in. I wrote it for everyone who not only wants to understand and see things better, but also wants to help other people see things...

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...

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...

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...

Scalable Insets is a new technique for interactively exploring and navigating large numbers of annotated patterns or features in multiscale visualizations such as gigapixel images, matrices, or...

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...

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...

MorphCharts are composed of one or more related visualizations from a dataset, which smoothly transition between views. These transitions allow a user to maintain context while exploring multiple...

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.