Science is helping to create new training methods and amazing performances by athletes such as swimmer Katie Ledecky. How much faster, stronger, and better can humans get?

Overview of the most interesting and disputed borders of the World. Infographic designed for the Sunday supplement of La Repubblica newspaper.

Both men and women have crafted the world as we know it. Now, just for a minute, take a quick look around. Think about your work or your hobbies. How many women are a reference in those fields?

When senator 'X' votes a 'Yea' or 'Nay' what are the chances that senator 'Y' would do the same? This tool allows you to find out the similarity in voting patterns of senators of the 115th Congress.

This #NationalCerealDay, @alv9n explains the Republican tax law — with cereal.

Earlier this year, my friend Elijah made a bold claim: that most people in data visualization end up leaving, because there’s something wrong with the current state of the field. It stirred quite a...

Datawrapper now checks your colors, so you don’t have to.

This piece explores job prospects for male and female college graduates. Through extensive data analysis, research and reporting, it finds that the careers that college-educated women take tend to...

This is an infographic comparing and contrasting two of the most popular social media apps, Snapchat and Instagram. This piece follows a timeline orientation and shows the different milestones each...

Compare UK demographic data with this handy tool.

Visualisation about two books written by Jules Verne. The Journey to the centre of the Earth and the Around the World in 80 days. The colour divides the visualisation in 2 parts, where the darker...

Many New Yorkers could be living with an industrial legacy of lead in their soil and not even know it. An illustrated urban gardening guide shows how to prevent exposure to contaminated soil.

A staple of acrylic planes holds the people of the continents ( Halma figures) as tenants with their accumulated wealth (as red LEGO bricks) for furnishing, the stock of foreign investment...

This interactive visualization uses WebGL in the browser to give a 3D look at all the buildings in Manhattan. Using data provided by the city of New York, the user can filter the buildings by...

The surprising link between your birthday and place of birth— in one heat map

Some names sound familiar, like Stephen Bannon and Donald Trump Jr., but most don’t.

The annual European Backpacker Index, compiled by priceoftravel.com, is designed to help money-savvy travellers find the cheapest European cities and plan an accurate budget for when they...

China is the hometown of tea and the birthplace of tea culture. The Chinese began to use tea as early as 5,000 years ago. At the same time, tea, as a landmark product of the ancient silk road, is...

Apple becomes the first publicly-listed U.S. company to reach a market value of $1 trillion, a major milestone in a decade of stock gains fueled by the iconic iPhone. Here's a look at how the...

This heat map indicates the average daily temperatures of the summer season (June to September) in Tokyo over the course of 140 years. You can hover over or tap on a cell to see detailed...

Respondents to polls say they expect their lives to improve with time. In general, they do not.

What if machines could write stories? What are the boundaries between creativity and automation? These are the questions I asked myself when I started working on 'Grimmz' - a fairy-tale generator,...

An exploration of how age, gender, and race affect casting of professional productions of Shakespearean plays. A deep dive into data from 1,000+ productions of 10 Shakespearean plays produced...

Medical School is extremely competitive. You need to have nearly perfect grades and MCAT scores. Then there is an overwhelming number of schools to consider. Inspired by Priestley this chart tries...

Using data visualization can improve the effectiveness of human rights work that involves data. In particular, combining data and visuals in the promotion of human rights enables advocates to...

In Copenhagen - one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world - 50% of all citizens commute by bike daily. This poster illustrates the bicycle counts in 2014 on four different streets in...

It sounds like hyperbole, but it isn’t: Half of American women struggle to find jeans that fit at the mall. More specifically, only 13% of women’s jeans in brick and mortar stores are available for...

From his early childhood years sketching in the dirt to his final hours at age 91, Pablo Picasso was devoted to mastering his deeply personal art. Tens of thousands of works that touch on countless...

This is our thinking about the different physique of the medical system. We see the medical system as a capsule of innumerable human social developments. In our view, human beings are bound by...