How music taste evolved - every top 5 song, from 1958-2016. 

Narration, even fictional, contains a network of interacting characters. Constituting a well defined corpus, the eleven Shakespearean tragedies can easily be compared by visualising how the...

Cities in Europe – Facts and figures on cities and urban areas The publication ‘Cities in Europe’ contains 13 infographics that show facts and figures on recent urban developments in the context...

This story features an agricultural project from Uganda. A team of scientists joined 358 farmers who sourced the data themselves for this project. In two districts they tested the best bean they...

Series of graphic representations that reconstruct the game tree of eight of the best players in chess history. To plot the game trees, it has been used a database composed of more than 10,000...

An analysis of all the games ever played between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Does every female character in Disney / Pixar movies have basically the same face?

A look at the history of Batman & Superman in the context of the changes in American culture, politics and economics over the last century. The aim was to try and understand how these...

Artwork for Wired UK on UK's biggest spam service from January to August 2014

A century ago The Netherlands counted 6.5 million inhabitants. On March 21st of this year that number officially reached a total of no less than 17 million. That same day we published a combination...

In a first-of-its-kind review, the newspaper spent a year examining the field contact practices of the nation’s 50 largest police departments, along with some of the top law enforcement agencies in...

Interactive infographic to compare the statistics of the 10 largest German cities by 15 customizable categories.

Diagrams of daily wind and temperatures during one year for the most populated city in each state. Colorful diagrams display five daily measurements for an full year in each city: wind direction,...

As climate change alters 
habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will
 animals move to survive?
 And will human development prevent them from getting there? This map shows the average...

Standing on a given point and facing perpendicular to the coast, if you went straight ahead, never turning, where would you end up?

MapInSeconds lets people create choropleth maps just by copying and pasting data from a spreadsheet/Excel. A major goal of this is to make map-making straightforward and accessible. The maps can...

Risk assessment tools -- tests that are supposed to measure a prisoners risk of recidivism -- are coming into increasing use. These tools can reduce the size of prison populations and avoid...

Breaking down data on the 27 fintech unicorns. 

Graphically exploring the fluctuations of success across the film careers of a selection of actors and directors

Data Selfie is a Chrome browser extension that I used to track myself while I interact – click, type, scroll, dwell – with content on Facebook and that predicts various personality traits and...

Infographic summarizes the cases of corruption investigated and prosecuted in Valencia and its main defendants. It is shown in chronological order each case to see in the time from when...

Efforts to learn more about the mosquito that transmits Zika have resulted in a new visualization, but what does it show?

In this visualization you can investigate how the 146 million employed persons in 2014 were divided up between ~550 different occupations. The occupations are grouped and even subgrouped. Each grey...

Artwork for "La Lettura". Data extraction by ItaliaNLP Lab. The visualization shows the most frequent terms and their proximity in Svetlana Alexievich's books. For each book are indicated the 10...

Intersections of major roads have been given nicknames like “mixing bowl,” “spaghetti junction,” and “knot”—invoking images of tangled messes, but there's beauty in the chaos. Applying colors...

Welcome to the Sage Project, a new platform where design and technology come together to create the food labels we’ve always wanted — smart, simple, and personalized.

Charting miles of road and bike path in NYC.

NarcoData is a summary of 40 years of organized crime in Mexico. Organized crime in our country has overwhelming proportions that concerns itself not only with an expanding drug market, but has...

Capricious Earth is big data visualization product, shows statistics from 1976-2016, more than one million global seismic data for nearly 40 years, and the earthquakes of Chinese provinces. This is...

Cognitive biases are just tools, useful in the right contexts, harmful in others. They’re the only tools we’ve got, and they’re even pretty good at what they’re meant to do. We might as well get...