Alberto Cairo's weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism

Minute by minute point differentials of 2015 NBA games

How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...

The Battle of Waterloo, visualized. 

Visualisation of both live and pre built data for the EU Referendum results service. Video 1 | Video 2

A timeline of Earth's average temperature since the last ice age glaciation.

Last year almost 4 million babies are born in the US. Although thinking of 4 million unique names is pretty difficult, theoretically it is not impossible. Nonetheless, there are always many...

A geophysical investigation of environmental data and exploring new ways to communicate this complex data to the public. The issue of air pollution from road traffic is especially topical at the...

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...

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...

Particles and fragments of light slip by in a stream of time and space to portray the compelling experience of driving. »Porsche BlackBox« reimagines this connection by visualizing racing data as...

This visualisation graph below shows the running schedule for 1030 runners who are logging their data with Discovery Vitality in South Africa and have done at least one run over 80 km. Each row...

From less than 100 meters to 828 meters, heights of skyscrapers in the world has grown 8 times in the past century. This graphic tracks the tallest building built every year, detailing its...

Originally published in 1995, one of the most iconic resources in the coffee industry, the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, has been the industry standard for over two decades. In 2016, this...

This is a project I worked on while I was an intern - mandatory internship part of my M.Sc. course - at DensityDesign Research Lab. I design and developed the website. The project is a first...

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...

Gender pay gap for US employees - published by WSJ.

80 Minutes in a Locked Room is a personal influence map. I decided to tell a story about my adventures in a locked room maze. In the infographic, different moods and behaviours are represented...

Roughly 2.2 million people are locked up in prison or jail; 7 million are under correctional control, which includes parole and probation; and more than $80 billion is spent on corrections...

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

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...

Dress For Our Time, by award-winning artist and designer Helen Storey MBE RDI (London College of Fashion, UAL Centre for Sustainable Fashion) and creative agency Holition is a unique installation...

Charting miles of road and bike path in NYC.

Since 2008 I create network visualizations to better understand how communities work. In this article I take a look at how verified Twitter users are connected and who they are.

We show how Germany commutes. 

Explainer motion graphic outlining information behind the death penalty

Subject: people do not worry is the trend of the donation, donation is not too clear, resulting in concerns, in order to break the people's concerns, I design the information visualization of...

The woodpecker facts and systems to protect his head against the hits when this bird drills the wood. Fun project to my site mhinfographics published in Spanish also in visual744.

If there is anything in the world that warrants attention it’s education. How can one really analyze how far has education come if not from a vantage point? Astronomy has long been a human reminder...

An explorable 3D landscape built using data from an analysis of Grimm's folktales. I identified words in the stories that stood out against common English and used this to generate a landscape on...