This year, I became a graduate student of Institute of Systems Science at National University of Singapore. When i was learning data storytelling, I wanted to make an infographic myself. But what...

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...

Cockroaches: All you want to know, but are too scared to ask.

Pollution index of the world based on the factors of air, water, garbage, green spaces and parks, water accessibility, and others.

From when I first saw the situational comedy show Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I’ve probably rewatched it ten times over. I’ve always wondered what made the show so special. What about this show makes me...

WE ARE ALONE ARE WE? is a set of four visualizations on the questions behind the search for extraterrestrial life: Is there any? How could we reach them? What would they look like? And how would we...

Space debris poses a threat to both satellites and future space missions. The littering of space with defunct satellites and old rockets has accelerated dramatically these last years, mainly due to...

Every job from every episode from Star Trek TOS-main, regular extras, and unnamed characters. Even the babysitters and waitresses.

EagerEyes is Robert Kosara’s place to reflect on the world of information visualization and visual communication of data. The goal is to help digest things that are happening in the field and...

Dimensions.Guide is a comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world.

The election of November, 2018 ushered in the new 116th Congress of the United States of America. This visualization attempts to answer the question, “How diverse is the 116th Congress?” It does...

For many of us in Western developed countries, the internet is ubiquitous and part of almost everything we do. What about in emerging countries? We picked 8 major emerging countries to show the...

Something important you'll notice: as more outside groups get involved in the war, each escalates by backing their side, then a rival will also get involved to back the other side. So what you have...

They are the foundation of life on Earth, providing food, medicine, building materials and clean air but across the world, plant species are disappearing fast. The world contains around 423,000...

For the December 2016 print issue, Scientific American asked Accurat Studio to develop a data visualization centered on the research paper “A Cosmic Hunt in the Berber sky: a Phylogenetic...

Animal movement represents the continuous succession of locations of an individual over time. By changes in movement, animals react to both internal stimuli and the environment. State-of-the-art...

Freshwater has been described as the oil of the 21st century. In the wake of extreme water stress events across the globe in places like Cape Town, Mexico City, and Australia, I wanted to explore...

An animation visualising key data from the tns BMRB Public Opinion Monitor - what the British public thinks of certain key issues.

Data sketches is a ±yearlong collaboration in 12 instalments. On average taking a month per project, Nadieh & Shirley create an extensive data visualization of a different topic and write about...

August 15th, 2023 marks the first National Ecological Day in China. Our focus turns to plastic that can be seen everywhere. In 1950, only 2 million tons of plastic products were produced...

The modest Leicester City becomes champion of the Premier. How has it been possible? Davids vs Goliaths.

In May, the WSJ illustrated the differences in song preferences in New York by using data from e-jukeboxes. But what if we were to zoom that lens onto the rest of the country? Published by...

After blowing the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse within the NSA, Thomas Drake was charged under the Espionage Act by the Obama Administration. This interactive short documentary tells his...

No one really knows how much is being spent to address climate change. So ONE launched The Climate Finance Files, a detailed account of what's being spent, where. Climate finance data is...

Is there something unique about today’s hits—artists taking fewer risks and creating a narrower range of sounds?

We associate Wikipedia with transparency, but much of the editing process is opaque to us. If we look closer, we start to see that some articles are edited much more than others. If one of the most...

Infographics made on the basis of a study conducted by Siemens. A coefficient of urban ecology is composed from a combination of eight parameters.

An analysis of the more than 21,000 words in the Hamilton musical, and a write-up of the relational and thematic insights that were found. Includes an interactive exploratory tool at the end, where...

This visualisation looks into which countries the 1 in 3 people who live in Australia were born in. It also explores the types of government and the level of freedom that those countries...

The Fungi Universe visualizes the fungi taxonomy in a circular dendrogram that spans from moulds to edible mushrooms. Each taxonomy level builds outward with a lighter shade of grey for subkingdom,...