Developers spend countless hours creating the code that lies behind the scenes of almost everything we do. But the code itself often remains unseen. Our objective is to engage and celebrate...

From 'vehemently oppose' to 'all in': explore the universe of positions on Donald Trump. See which politicians have been sucked into orbit by the gas giant and which ones are resisting the pull.

Back on Planet Earth, we at Nominet have been looking for a way to visualise global internet use. The result is our map of the online world, an atlas redrawn according to the number of...

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura regarding space missions to Venus from 1961 to 2017 Source: Nasa

“My Sky” visualized the AQI (Air Quality Index) of 336 China’s cities in 2015, based on the open data of China’s government. Input a city’s name, click on the "Picture" button, you will get a...

Our latest release constitutes quite a catch: a massive, awe-inspiring aquarium of American freshwater fish! Each finny friend has been meticulously illustrated scale by scale—to scale! This...

Wage Islands is an interactive installation about wage and housing inequality in NYC. It's a 3d topographic map of monthly housing costs submerged in water to show where New Yorkers can afford...

Think Game of Thrones is complicated? Try the royal houses of Europe! Starting with Charlemagne, this poster includes the monarchs of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Spain, France, the...

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

Infographic for BOAT International Magazine showing the components of a dream yacht/ice-breaker.

As of autumn 2015 there are 870 Nobel Prize laureates, each one a well known and celebrated individual. But it is a less known fact that every year the Nobel Committee selects several hundred...

Holobiont Urbanism is a research endeavor that sets out to study, map, and visualize the microbiome of New York City, in order to reimagine the city as more than a vast metropolis, but rather as a...

A visual representation of Spotify's algorithm to create a personalized Discover Weekly playlists for their 75 million users.

Since the retirement of Nasa’s Space Shuttle in 2011, Soyuz has been the sole means of transportation of crew members to the International Space Station to this day (2016). This graphic attempts to...

Take a 360 degree virtual tour of our Solar System, with the help of astronomer and Crash Course host Phil Plait! From start to finish, the viewer is guided through from Planet to Moon to Meteor,...

From 1973 to 2015, my grandfather notes down all his bicycle rides in a diary. My aim is to give an overview of and insight in the biking history of my grandfather and the places he visited. The...

AnyChart is a robust JavaScript/HTML5 data visualization solution for easily creating interactive graphs, maps, Gantt and stock charts, and dashboards in any project, on any platform and in any...

At Avodato we have been collecting data about how the Internet is interconnected during the last months to do some basic data exploration and create some basic visualizations about how the internet...

The visualization shows the meals described in 49 novels. The descriptions and the novels have been selected by Dinah Fried, who has collected them in the book Fictitious Dishes: An Album of...

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura about the production and consumption of Pasta in the world. Source: International Pasta Organisation - The World Pasta Industry Status Report 2013

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“What’s Really Happening” is an informational graphic poster describing a typical female college student lifestyle. The intent is to show the reasons and meanings behind different behavioral...

A 366 days project about the ever changing colors of the sky over Berlin. Capturing a moment in time and space every day over the course of one year – 2016. This artistic and abstract project is...

The ribbons' sizes are proportional to the number of asylum applications by country of origin and destination. Destination countries connected to countries of origin by thick ribbons have...

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...

Unioncamere Lombardia is the association of the twelve public Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Crafts of Lombardy. Unioncamere publishes a report on industrial and manufacturing...

Our bodies are extraordinary. They contain elements that have a commercial value, megabytes of data, and trillions of cells, most of which aren't our own.

When numbers get into the billions or trillions, they start to lose context. The U.S. national debt is one of those numbers. It currently sits at $19.5 trillion, which is actually such a large...

A series of three interactive and animated visualizations that show the uncertainty of life at both the individual level and the population as a whole.

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...