Tadpoles in each color illustrate movement of one metric on two dimensions. The head of tadpole (arrow) points to the next position while the tail (small dot) indicates where it comes from. A...

Initially designed as a gift for a client, the sketchbook was so successful that it became an ongoing project. Today, with over 17 designs, the sketchbooks have traveled the world and are a great...

InfoTrust Summer Shred Challenge 2022 is an annual company-wide initiative to encourage everyone to be active during the summer season. The challenge ran between June 21, 2022 until September 22,...

Research reveals what helps-and hurts-in our pursuit of bliss

Spiel des Jahres is the Oscars of Board Games. This German competition does not award prize money-but games that win receive bragging rights and often see increased sales. Explore what it takes to...

Visions in catastrophe; conflict and the creative mind, is a computational art historical analysis of cataclysm, war, and artistic production. One hundred and twenty three of history’s most...

Climate TRACE is comprehensive emissions tracking covering GHG and other air pollution from millions of sources around the world. Our data is built by a global non-profit coalition of scientists...

This story is about the most recent restoration of Hubert and Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, also known as the Ghent Altarpiece. We received high resolution images of this world’s...

Illustrated infographic that explores the history, scientific makeup, health benefits, and etiquette surrounding cheese.

#Observasegurança is a non-profit public safety data visualization tool. With millions of data points comprising 4 different databases - including ones that have never before been made public -...

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...

Two data visualization enthusiasts take on a year-long data visualization project. Tracking quantified-self data In the spirit of Dear Data, but with the twist that we traded data sets to be...

Grand Playbill transforms century-old Peking Opera playbills from the Capital Library into an interactive dual-screen installation. Visualizing over 3659 performers and their connections, it...

For this collaboration with the International Detention Coalition, we have been asked, following the IDC brand guidelines, to design a few visualisations adequate for both print and digital...

This data visualization is an encoded self-portrait. It is an interactive piece of data art that explores the concept of Intersectional feminism and the Matrix of Dominance. Using the metaphor of a...

"Schematics: A Love Story" is a unique and experimental board book that pairs found scientific line graphics with simple prose to form a narrative in which life is mapped, charted and diagramed....

Smoke California wildfires in 2020 covered the entire U.S. West Coast before spreading out over the Pacific Ocean. The smoke also travelled thousands of miles east, turning skies from New York to...

Access to good-quality affordable housing is a fundamental need and key to achieving a number of social policy objectives, including reducing poverty and enhancing equality of opportunity, social...

Skateboarding Skateboard is the ancestor of extreme sports history, many extreme sports are extended from skateboarding events. Skateboarding, which evolved from surfing in the late 1950s and early...

With abolitionist Harriet Tubman coming to the $20 bill, the women-on-currency issue deserves some context. Though men are featured on bank notes far more than women, the Tribune tracked down...

An interactive illustrating the spread of Nobel laureates across the world and by affiliation. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/matthew-weber-former-visiting-fellow

Diagrams of daily wind and temperatures during one year for the most populated city in each state. Colorful diagrams display five daily measurements for an full year in each city: wind direction,...

Analyzing Shakespear's play, we look at main characters (spoken word dialog accounts for at least 10% of total dialog) and their spoken words in each scene. Outer bands represent each scene in the...

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...

BlurM3Not is a physical installation that bridges the digital world, leveraging data as a tool to spark conversations and reflections on social behaviors in the digital realm and the biases that...

Assessing population well-being is as complex as it is sensitive, requiring careful consideration of various factors contributing to individuals’ quality of life. While established metrics such as...

Apart from waypoints and natural jet streams, there are many man-made constraints such as political, legal and financial restrictions on airspace. Countries use airspace to collect fees or leverage...

In 1977, the great computer scientist Donald Knuth published a paper called The Complexity of Songs, which is basically one long joke about the repetitive lyrics of newfangled music (example quote:...

In collaboration with the NFL's 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report, Playfair Data presents an analysis of occupational mobility patterns within the NFL. The annual study, now in its 10th year,...

Eloise was born across town at the same hospital as Dorian. Hospitals, as it turns out, are full of data visualizations. We were at the hospital for some routine tests when the adventure began....