Is crime in America rising or falling? The answer is not nearly as simple as politicians sometimes make it out to be, because of how the FBI collects and handles crime data from the country’s...
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,...
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...
Mass killings in the United States are most often carried out with guns, usually handguns, most of them obtained legally.
There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and...
With some occupations, people make more annual income than others, but we typically see figures in terms of means and medians when in reality, the difference between the person who makes the...
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...
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...
Today’s AFL grand final players are the product of sports scientists on the quest for the perfect competitor.
The average grand finalist has certainly changed a lot over the years. ‘Mullets,...
Recent fossil discoveries have allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolution of mammals from their humble, shrewlike ancestors to the extraordinairy variety of forms, including humans, that...
Kaledata is an Italian hand drawn infographic news blog. Articles are published twice a month on average and focus on worldwide news and current events. Kaledata is in Italian but has an English...
With abolitionist Harriet Tubman coming to the $20 bill, the women-on-currency issue deserves some context. Though men are featured on bank notes far more than women, the Tribune tracked down...
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...
Explore how conversation unfolded at any given moment by clicking on different parts of the timeline. The lines and flying bubbles show the influx of Retweets to a given country.
This project is a small atlas with basic information about our country represented in different infographics using only two colors. We investigated general data about Mexico, as well as about each...
Samsung recently commissioned the world's leading futurists, architects, technology forecasters and sociological soothsayers to cast their visionary insight 100 years into the future.
The Affordability Explorer is an interactive app that maps data about the housing affordability of 584 cities. The main intention is to inform about relation between house price, income and...
Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura about the Roman emperors (from Augustus to the last of the Western Roman Empire) , their causes of death and their years in power
Source: Wikipedia
Ever wonder which James Bond made the most money? How about which actor flirted with Moneypenny the most? Or who killed the most henchmen? I have. So I did what anybody would do: I sat down with a...
Traditionally, Martian craters are all named after something on Earth - small towns, scientists, or famous artists. In this map I tried to make a strange planet seem familiar by sharing the Earth...
Probe the solar system from Mercury to Pluto with this stellar schematic of space exploration! From the Luna 2 in 1959 to the DSCOVR in 2015, this color-coded chart traces the trajectories of every...
By visualizing data on air travel, tourism, Erasmus student migration, and marriages within Europe, my project (created using D3.js) aims to explore the social connection between European Union...
The artwork shows the 100 heaviest meteorites found and seen falling to earth. For each meteorite it is represented on the arched timeline: the year in which it was found or it has fallen, the...
How much money exists in the world?
Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...