QS Best Student Cities is an annual index assessing cities in five key categories: university rankings, student mix, desirability, employer activity and affordability. This infographic reports the...
The pressure is not only a psychological disease, also a response of body’s ‘war footing’. Realizing the accumulated stress has important significance for health life. Using visual information...
To illustrate the destructive power of Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombs we analyze the impact the Fat Man bomb would have on modern cities. We indicate the radiuses of destruction of our hypothetical...
Artwork for "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera".
The visualisation shows the Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism awarded in the last 100 years. The main topic for each winning...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure brain activity in seven people while they listened to more than 2 hours of stories from The Moth Radio Hour. This data was used...
Call it taxonomy, classification, even organization — it is what we use to make sense of almost everything around us. We put things in logical, labeled boxes that help us comprehend the world. The...
This is a map showing over five years of drought data (285 weeks, combined into a single view) in the United States.
The dots are proportionally sized by the amount of time over the past five...
In celebration of the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this month, Visa looks back look back at major historical and cultural milestones in the Olympic and Paralympic Games since 1986.
A Washington Post-SurveyMonkey poll of more than 74,000 registered voters reveals how the 2016 campaign is playing out in every state, including some unexpected shifts.
Where do the roots of humankind lie? A video exploring the earliest origins of our species, taking the viewer on a journey about the biological and social developments that lead from apes to homo...
The digits of Pi are assigned mass and placed uniformly around a circle. The simulation calculates the gravitational forces between all mass pairs and moves the masses accordingly. When masses...
Politicians like to say, 'I worked my way through college' to prove their work ethic. But four decades ago, a year of tuition could be worked off in a summer. Compared with today's kids, they had...
The project is a visual representation of the world, seen through the eyes of a pilot. The map has been inspired by Vanhoenacker's book "Skyfaring".
On the map are indicated the airports and the...
The work shows the most common color of the Olympic Games symbol (5 rings) present in flags of countries that won at least one medal throughout the history of the Olympics.
The countries that...
The Internet is the most important technology in this era. Because the Internet spreads widely and deeply in people's everyday life, this useful technology is somewhat taken for granted. This world...
Each number capable of factorization (2–101) is factorized to its primes. Each prime factor is represented by a ring of "leaves" around a center point colored with a light-to-dark gradient....
Xavi Bou focuses on birds, his great passion, in order to capture in a single time frame, the shapes they generate when flying, making visible the invisible.
Unlike other motion analysis...
The obesity epidemic plaguing much of the developed (and developing) world has long been blamed on excess fat consumption, but recently sugar has emerged as the more likely culprit.
This piece...
An animated visualization of commuting patterns for US counties operating at the US Census Tract level. Tract to tract flows are shown based on user selected criteria.
High-profile mass shootings in San Bernardino and Colorado Springs grabbed national attention and sparked debate about how to reduce gun violence. But Congress still hasn’t passed a single bill...