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 collection of small data visualisations on taboo topics. I want these data visualizations to remind non-experts of a time when numbers weren’t daunting, disinteresting or dubious. The...

Artwork for Il Corriere della Sera - La Lettura on the production, export and consumption of tea in the world from 2008 to 2013. Source: Fao Food and Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations

An infographic about the recent rise in military exercises both from NATO and Russia in the northern Europe. Published on La Repubblica on June 18th, 2015   TRANSLATION: Troop...

In almost every urban area on every continent around the world, pigeons solemnly blend into the cityscape aesthetic. Usurping sidewalks and parks in their massive unflattering flocks, pigeons are...

Much of the American West is in a prolonged drought. Western Water tracks the water levels of reservoirs across the western United States. It is a proxy for water availability in the selected...

#MakeoverMonday is a social experiment run by Andy Kriebel and Andy Cotgreave. Each week Andy Kriebel shares a foreign data set and asks others to turn it into a more meaningful visualisation. The...

Prince was much more than a prolific musician. Besides giving rise to the "Minneapolis Sound," he also had an exceptional eye for spotting talent. He created numerous musical groups and wrote hit...

After one hundred years, how far have we pushed forward the limitation of human body? Are human races getting faster, higher and stronger? To answer this question, the project collect historical...

An interactive representation of the relationships in Syria as they stand today.

These two infographics were part of a series of infographics I created for the book "Wedged" by Erik Fogg and Nathaniel Greene (available on Amazon, the abortion infographic is the only one...

A tool designed to help America's 3 million breast cancer survivors decide their course of future treatment with as little stress as possible.

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

Open Source visualization of Election Results by state, party, year, and candidate, sorted by region.

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...

timeglo.be uses Wikipedia and DBpedia to create a database of over 20000 events from world history, each with a short description, and plots them on an interactive 3D world map. You can put in...

On the 10 of January the great musician David Bowie died. Several web portals published the lists of the critics favorite songs. So 3 very different in many ways (political views, social aspects...

There have been more than 22 million weddings in England and Wales over the last 70 years. Visualising data from the Office for National Statistics allowed to retrace patterns in the British...

A nonstandard project, encompassing a data visualization presentation, interactive slides, and collection of 9 blogs. It strives to inspire others to show a dedication to details, to go beyond the...

Real-Time Accumulation of Wealth

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.

Artwork for BBC Focus Magazine regarding climate change due to different causes from 1880 to date Source: Nasa

We have become the largest producers of data in history. Almost every click online, each swipe on our tablets and each tap on our smartphone produces a data point in a virtual repository. According...

Designer Krisztina Szűcs visualizes the ‘scary factor’ of one of the most popular fairy tales

To sum up the key character’s journey in an entire movie into a single picture, these maps show all the places where the plot takes place, as well as a joining thread showing the movement...

AwardPuzzle is an interactive data visualization online platform for award-winning tips of China National Exhibition of Fine Arts, and it is also a method to understand current ideology of China....

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...

Analysis of what makes Serena Williams the best tennis player of all time.

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...

Musicmap tries to provide the ultimate genealogy of all popular music genres and bundles any information regarding music genres and history in one dynamic map, serving as both an educational tool...