A look at the history of Batman & Superman in the context of the changes in American culture, politics and economics over the last century. The aim was to try and understand how these...

32 Questions for DeRay Mckesson was commissioned by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art as part of Now, my retrospective exhibition touring the United States.

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...

Discover how the European Commission is making a difference by reducing the human and environmental costs of air pollution. Six interactive visual segments are woven into a single narrative which...

Level the playing field by eliminating the influence of the factors below

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 Subspotting project captured the cell phone reception for the 4 major carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) along the 660 miles of the New York City Subway. Subspotting is the first...

The artwork shows soccer statistics data made by Opta for HOWLER Magazine

Where do the roots of humankind lie? A video exploring the earliest origins of our species, taking the viewer on a journey about the biological and social developments that lead from apes to homo...

War and Peace — a vast novel with many characters and events, historical facts and locations. We visualized relations between the characters and how these evolve, movements of the characters on the...

Olympians are young, supremely healthy people who’ve been training with the intensity of combat troops for years. Suddenly they’re released into a cocoon where prying reporters and overprotective...

Serif and sans serif, funny and gothic, web-friendly and print-friendly. There are millions of free and paid fonts you can use. Although this is a good thing, it creates a bit of a problem: how to...

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

The project investigates the problem of air pollution in modern megapolices. The main purpose was to tell about the influence of different urban systems on environment, their correlation and role...

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

The average office worker productivity is now 84% higher than it was forty years ago, and the transformation of our workspace may have provided a helpful hand.  From the classic Knoll to the...

Elementary school: The folded leaflet shows the educational pathways of pupils between kindergarten and secondary school level II between 2001 and 2014. A distinction is drawn between different...

The Battle of Waterloo, visualized. 

After some lengthy investigative work, I was leaked an internal report by Transport for London revealing a 121% increase in reports of rough sleeping on London’s night buses. But the numbers needed...

Explore your favourite “based on a true story” films scene-by-scene, beat-by-beat and test their veracity on a data level. Obviously watch out – **MEGA SPOILERS**

Visual representation of the most dangerous urban intersections in America.

A visual and data analytic exploration of success in tennis: Uncovering the relationship between performance and popularity. The visualization shows the career paths of the currently 500 best...

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.

The information graphic for the Burckhardt+Partner agenda shows 116 projects in the first quarter 2015. Size and colours give an insight into project volumes and the varied compositions of the...

Animated time series of mass shootings that occurred during 2015 in the united states.

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...

Linear, gantt chart style project schedules are not always easy to read for people without a building or project background. This interactive data visualisation provides an alternative project...

The authors scanned data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey—which covers 3.5 million households—to find out how people are pairing up.

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...

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...