While there are more people than ever on the NHS’s donor register, there are some body parts that people find it difficult to part with – even after death.

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...

More than 100 heads of government and 40,000 other attendees are gathered to craft a global climate deal. It’s challenging work, made more complicated by the slew of alliances among...

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...

Some teams seem to always strike gold on draft day, while others just find rocks. (We’re looking at you, Cleveland.) Revisit the past 20 NFL drafts to see how adept every team has been at mining...

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...

Intersections of major roads have been given nicknames like “mixing bowl,” “spaghetti junction,” and “knot”—invoking images of tangled messes, but there's beauty in the chaos. Applying colors...

'Some jobs are much more labor intensive and dangerous than others, so it's important to consider what kind of workers’ compensation is available in your state. For this data visualization, we took...

A look at the capital punishment in the state of Texas US.

The double-sided information graphics for the magazine Hochparterre illustrates figures on Swiss preservation of historical monuments: job percentages of specialist departments on cantonal and city...

To mark the completion of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, ‘The Pursuit of Faster’ data visualisation project explores the evolution of medal winning performances across all Olympic Games since...

Information visualization has traditionally limited itself to 2D representations, primarily due to the prevalence of 2D displays. While techniques that utilize immersive environments, such as...

Body mass index, from 1984 to 2014.

One of the joys of working at the Guardian is that playfulness is very much “on brand.” We knew election results and delegate trackers would be everywhere this year (mostly using the same AP data),...

My pieces represent reckless occurrences in the mind explained on paper.

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...

Jeff Bezos is now in the 5th spot on world’s wealthiest people list. But he was born poor. He wanted to start a business right after college but didn’t. So how did he start?

Lord of the Rings character word count in Chord(ish) diagram form.

A global criminal world according to Interpol database.

Traditionally, Martian craters are all named after something on Earth - small towns, scientists, or famous artists. In this map I tried to make a strange planet seem familiar by sharing the Earth...

StrategyBlocks is the leading SaaS-based solution for strategic planning, management & execution. The platform merges quantitative & qualitative data via a system of cascading ‘blocks’ for...

A brilliant visualisation of those who have climbed Mount Everest including those who have fallen.

The visualization shows the collection of historical drawings by Frederick William IV alongside a thematic and temporal arrangement. The aim was to highlight thematic and historical connections...

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...

The development of antibiotics has added an average of 20 years to our lives. But resistance to antibiotics is rising. This poses a significant risk as common infections may become untreatable....

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.

Hundreds of thousands of drivers, millions of users and rides, billions in VC funding. After seeing the explosive growth of rideshare companies in India, in spite of so many challenges, the...

The Mini Metros project can trace its origins to my futile attempt to make an iPhone app several years ago. Coding is not my forte, but I had fun designing mockups. One of the things I liked the...

In the final sentence of his study of nineteenth‐century canals, Ronald E. Shaw points to the limitations of most canal maps: “The long lines of canals now drawn on our maps ... are but the...

When a company or government agency suffers a data breach, the number of records they say were lost are often preliminary estimates, whether they say so or not. Typically, the investigation has...