The UK’s electricity generating sites and sub-sea interconnectors. Only currently operating sites of 1 megawatt (MW) capacity or larger are included. The size of the circles is proportional to site...

Over the last year Private Eye has revealed the extent of ownership of British land by offshore companies, generally for tax avoidance and often to conceal dubious wealth. Now the Eye has...

See just how warmer temperatures and less precipitation have drastically altered the water situation in the Golden State since 2011. Published by the Wall Street Journal

32 teams qualified for the soccer World Cup finals held in Brazil in June and July 2014. They started in groups of four with the top two sides progressing to the knockout stages. Here, they are...

Something important you'll notice: as more outside groups get involved in the war, each escalates by backing their side, then a rival will also get involved to back the other side. So what you have...

This infographic displays employee relations challenges with social media. The statistics came from an annual survey, the HR Acuity 6th Annual Employee Relations and Workplace Investigation Survey.

Why hasn’t wealth inequality improved over the past 50 years? And why, in particular, has the racial wealth gap not closed? These nine charts illustrate how income inequality, earnings gaps,...

To meet demand for food, fuel and wood, countries are snapping up property beyond their borders

Rare earth elements are a group of metals of great economic and technological significance. They possess a great number of irreplaceable properties and play a key role especially with regard to...

“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...

A vast reservoir of information on human health and behavior lives in our sewage.

We have trouble understanding and accepting mass deaths . For example, numbers like 1; 2; 14; 20; 50, are all quantities that we encounter quite frequently and therefore we’re able to rationalize...

Visualising the National Football Soccer League of Costa Rica for the Summer Tournament 2015. The 12 First Division clubs had varied objectives: win the title, make decent progress or simply avoid...

Graph TV is a visualization tool which graphs tv show ratings by episode. Each season is assigned a different color and linear regressions are calculated for each season as well as for the...

The M29 bus route cuts straight through Berlin. It starts in the villa districts in the west of the city, passes through the troubled inner city areas, and ends in Berlin’s trendiest districts....

Motion infographic based around the Battle of Stalingrad, showing the causes of the Red Army's victory. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-popov-6bb21a46

This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1387 genres by The Echo Nest. The...

Last year, I made a series of visualizations based on playlist data from my favorite local radio station: KEXP. Well, it’s a new year and there’s new data, so here I go again! First, let’s start...

A look at the major cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 @ChristineHHChan

An infographic on California's dry spell that plots data from the Palmer Hydrological Drought Index, a soil-moisture algorithm designed to measure the long-term impact of drought. The graph focuses...

Flagstories is an analysis of world flags according to layouts, colours, similarities, proportions, age, complexity, history, meaning and symbolism. Published by Ferdio

In December 2015, Paris hosts the COP21, the global climate change summit, where it is imperative for the world nations to come to an agreement regarding their commitment to reducing...

Language represents our view of the world, and knowing its limits helps us understand how our perception works. I used the data from Wikipedia’s “Color” entry for different languages. My...

Baseball is arguably the most quantifiable data driven professional sport in the world. From the inception of the game, player performance has been quantified and the analysis has only grown more...

Projects in the fields of communication design, visualization and design research for national and international clients as well as self-initiated and non-commercial...

Visualisingdata.com provides readers with a rich variety of content that charts the development of the data visualisation field. The site is managed and edited by data visualization specialist Andy...

To illustrate the destructive power of atomic bombs, this visualisaition analyses the impact the Fat Man bomb would have on modern cities around the world. The radiuses of immediate destruction...

Accurat helps global leaders identify core challenges and develops custom data-driven solutions that seamlessly integrate into internal workflows. http://www.accurat.it/

With the United States' new B61-12 nuclear bomb, the military can change the explosive power of the each detonation – from an equivalent force of 50,000 tons of TNT down to 300 tons. The bomb...