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...

Shelter-me-not is an infographic art installation visualizing the housing issues of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, highlighting the ways in which shelter is tied to the experiences of both personal...

The ESA Star Mapper visualisation is an exploration of some central aspects of astrometric star catalogues, using data from ESA's Hipparcos mission. 

Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.

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...

“Plastic Garbage Island” is the first cover story published on Visualeyed.com, it’s an article about marine debris with a focus on plastic garbage. The article is enriched by interaction,...

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...

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,...

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...

Unprecedented amounts of money are sloshing about England's soccer clubs – be it revenue from tickets or merchandising, the astronomical amounts spent on players and their wages, or the millions...

Researchers pinpoint the top 15 “Sleeping Beauties,” studies published years ago that are now the talk of the town

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...

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A three-town route for a weekend of red-hot ice fishing. 

The Financial Inclusion Map explores differing access to and use of financial services around the world. It visualises data from the World Bank using a unique interactive hexagon cartogram map. A...

A year after Donald Trump launched his presidential bid, and against all expectations, the business mogul is the presumptive GOP nominee. Who supported him? How did he take over a Republican...

A fun interactive chart which lets you model various outcomes of the election results, selecting how each US state votes to see the impact on the election.

The project aims to raise awareness about the growing number of war victims in a continent too often forgotten. Data on armed conflicts in Africa since 1900 have been collected and made available...

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, millions were displaced, and once bustling communities became husks of their past selves. While the emptiness of these places is...

A large scale poster mapping the football grounds of the teams in the 2015/16 English professional football leagues. The poster illustrates a fascinating juxtaposition of the playing surface...

Looking for a unique baby name? How about some strange ones? Ones you can use in Scrabble, or ones that show up in the Bible? This visualization walks through some trends and oddities in the...

How to read this chart: Each line chart shows the rate of change since 2009 of tuition and fees in US states (counting public in-state four year institutions). Red shows values higher than the...

Since the 1990s, there have been a number of public health interventions to encourage people to quit smoking This combined with a constant increase in the price of a packet of cigarettes has seen a...

After Novak Djoković , the best-known portrait of the Western Balkans unfortunately remains mass unemployment. Especially among young people.

An interactive Japanese Kanji Learner created in Tableau Public

I can't read music but I can parse it. The talent of reading music has always escaped me which is a little ironic considering I grew up in a musical family. However, I've always enjoyed how sheet...

This map follows the growing population of Syrian civilians who have fled the country’s civil war since 2011. The data are from Eurostat and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

“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...

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...

Understanding the poverty situation and its many layers in London boroughs. This is a poster intended to be displayed in metro stations in the place where people wait. As users do not have much...