In 2008, the Australian government announced an “education revolution” -- a fundamental overhaul of a school funding system that had been in place in essence since 1974. Billions were poured into...
Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute and they are having a devastating effect on the environment.
The Reuters Graphics team visualised plastic bottle...
With a large data-art landscape and accompanying charts I show the data on suicide numbers of 2017 from the Netherlands. Elements like trees, waves and clouds represent the categories of suicide...
Plotparade.com is an experimental chart creator tool that lets you create beautiful, unusual looking infographics from simple datasets. It offers a handful of design templates: pick one, copy and...
The result of a three-month investigation, 3,121 desperate journeys breaks down the real cost of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. The piece aims to tell the story of just one week...
This stunning piece of digital journalism is the result of a successful collaboration between the ABC's Tokyo bureau and the Story Lab team here in Australia.
Super Kamiokande is a giant science...
This infographic comprehensively maps out all the ways of winning in different sports, clustering the world's sports according to what counts as winning (eg, being the fastest, being the most...
More than 5 million people in Kerala were affected and over 200 were killed amid torrential rain and floods in August 2018. The flooding, dubbed the worst to hit the southern state in nearly a...
An attempt to visually represent the careers of — almost — all the football players in the last century.
"Legends, One-club men and Journeymen" is a visual essay that is both a guided tour...
IBM Technology Garden is a realtime installation bringing Wimbledon tennis Championships data to life. Data from match and player statistics, AI video highlights, weather forecasts, cyber security...
Flowmap.blue is a free and open source flow map visualization tool. It is designed for representing aggregated numbers of movements between geographic locations. People from different parts of the...
This project used exclusive income and spending data for every school in Australia to show for the first time exactly how big the divide between rich and poor schools has grown.
The divide is so...
When China’s Place Museum announced plans for a branch in Hong Kong the SCMP visited Beijing and Taipei to study the Forbidden City’s architecture, history and how the art collection was split...
With the collapse of investment bank, Lehman Brothers, the 2008 Financial Crisis became full blown economic downturn which eventually led to the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression of...
China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps that are rising from the desert sands in Xinjiang. A forensic analysis of satellite data covering 39 of these...
In Australia, the debate about the generational divide is as heated as it ever was, stoked by stereotypical media-baiting — from the Baby Boomers who wrecked the world and stole all the wealth, to...
The world’s population is getting older. Japan is on the forefront of this demographic trend that will affect Germany, China and Italy in coming years. This piece explains which countries are...
This interactive visualization is accessible through a website or at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana the Milanese museum, which conserves Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus. The project opens up new...
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France. Due to the intense nature of the sport, doping has been long associated with the race. While doping in...
What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface.
Human light...
Plastic waste, mostly from rivers or careless dumping on land, washes into the oceans at an average rate of about nine million tons a year. The visible trash, along with heartbreaking images of its...
The second part of “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning” series, this installment describes a tradeoff fundamental to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using scroll-linked...
The Royal Dutch Cycling Federation wanted to attract more people to the fascinating sport of Freestyle BMX. Targeting live spectators and jury members, we developed an engaging platform that...
The Social Credit System is a national reputation system in development by the Chinese Government, which will give to each Chinese citizen a score based on their identity online and their behaviour...
The interactive scientific poster "Explore The Ocean" of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Marine Research explains complex marine science with a multi-touch display right on board the Hapag-Lloyd...
For our wedding, we created a network graph of the connections between all of our guests and designed individualized data-driven badges that highlighted each guests’ unique relationship to us, the...
A series of visualizations on the history of the D.C. punk band Fugazi, produced first as a newsprint fanzine, and then as large format prints for an exhibition. Using data the band themselves...
Since German reunification, millions of people have left the eastern part of Germany, triggering a demographic crisis. Data now shows exactly what happened – and why there’s cause for hope.
Sexual violence in Australia is pervasive but rarely prosecuted, much less punished. Invisible Crime is an attempt to give a count to these crimes, a texture to the experiences of those who survive...
The aim was to visualise the 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible... no pressure!
An epiphany came to visualise God speaking either side of that silence. Data was...