Incisive analysis and opinion around data visualization techniques, plus tutorials from the renowned University of Miami Knight Chair of Visual Journalism, Alberto Cairo. @albertocairo

The five U.S. territories—Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands—face a critical data deficit. The federal government collects far less...

The theme of our information design is "military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japanese aggression". The whole work is...

Visualizing population movement between 10 American cities. 

If the world is made of narratives, the best way to forecast our future is to understand which stories are influencing our thinking and technological imagination. By looking at outstanding top...

The Nokia Design Archive is a publicly accessible, online digital portal, created as a research project in the Department of Design at Aalto University, Finland. With items donated by Microsoft...

"War Filings" shows the density of explosions on the Syrian territory from 2015 to 2017. The data, gathered in the Global Terrorism Database, are represented through the metaphor of ferromagnetic...

We built a chart-bot that generated (and posted to Twitter) a chart of every NBA playoff game . The charts show how each basketball game played out: the lead changes, the unique set of...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by the United Nations in September 2015. Statistical data is a key element in the review of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that set the...

This animation shows the party affiliation of the elected candidates in the 2022 U.S. House of Representatives Election. It starts with a choropleth map with each congressional district in its...

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...

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

Wage stagnation and an ever increasing cost of living have left many people feeling poorer over the last few years. But for some workers, skills shortages mean pay has shot up. So is your job on...

IEPS DATA is a state-of-the-art platform that democratizes health data to monitor and support evidence-informed policies in Brazil. It allows different stakeholders to explore, compare, monitor,...

Healthcare failures place an extra burden of care on transgender people and their families, and can stop them being economically active. Here is what health care providers and legal services can do.

We are immersed in a digital age where our data is collected, mined, and shared by companies trying to target and control our behaviors. To inform people about targeted advertisements, a...

No other shooting in recent years comes close to the carnage of Las Vegas.

kepler.gl is a data-agnostic, high-performance web-based application for visual exploration of large-scale geolocation data sets. Built on top of deck.gl, kepler.gl can render millions of points...

I've focussed on data and the opportunities for better understanding cities in continuous movement, in this example, I’m having fun using Waze data with Python and R scripts in Power BI that...

Hubway is a bike sharing system providing over 1000 bikes and 100 bike racks available in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville. How many men and women cyclists are there? How old are they?...

This project visualizes city street network orientation, configuration, and entropy using OpenStreetMap data and the Python-based OSMnx package. Each of these cities is represented by a polar...

In the military veterans in the United States face many challenges after separating from active duty. As a veteran of the Iraq war I have personally faced many of those challenges in my own...

Guitar is often regarded as the main instrument in pop music, rock music, blues, folk songs and Franco. This information chart introduces all the information about the origin, development history,...

This visualization explores famous myths and legends from across the British Isles, tracking their origins back to towns and cities and ranking the mythical creatures based on their characteristics.

“If 2017 looked like the year when moderate politicians took back Europe, look again.” So kicks off Bloomberg’s stunning interactive graphic mapping the rise and reach of the populist far...

The visualization shows the stamps issued in Italy from 1945 to 2017. Artwork for Visual Data, the column on 'La Lettura', the cultural supplement of 'Corriere Della Sera'.

Having streets in Hungary named after a Hungarian historical figure is nothing unusual. It’s by no means that unheard of to have streets in neighboring countries bear said name, provided  that...

“God created time, the devil created calendars,” as the Austrian-American chemist Erwin Chargaff once wrote. But here of course that's not entirely true, since the ixtract calendar you find beneath...

Exodus is an Information-visualization that attempts to uncover the causalities behind the movement of refugees who have migrated from their homes to new lands, from the top 11 countries with a...

New York’s celebrated and diverse restaurant culture at “the center of the universe” inspired FOODIVERSE, a visualization of food quality and customer experience in all Manhattan restaurants. It...