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

"Mapping Dada" is a piece that uses the Wikipedia link structure, combined with a modified version of Google's 'PageRank' equation, to track the movement of Dada through history.

Originally we created this piece for our book, An Answer for Everything, as a ‘best song of all time’ infographic. We started looking through critics’ lists of best-ever singles to create a meta...

Harlequins are a rugby team based in West London, known and loved in the sport for their distinctive kit. This visualisation uses the quadrant style of their home shirt to display point for and...

Asked to present the historic event in a given folding format, I chose to move away from the stories and give light to the vast scope and numbers of disappearance during the military dictatorship...

Controller Map is a data story using interactive data visualisations to portray and analyse the control mapping by game studios for 44 AAA games, for the PlayStation. There are a set of 5 different...

The world is getting hotter. July 2019 was one of the warmest months ever recorded - and July temperatures almost everywhere on Earth have been higher in the last decade compared with 1880-1900....

Over the past few years, terrorist attacks have increased again and again, causing the world to be in a chaotic situation and the security situation is troublesome. As we all know, terrorist...

Cable news is a major source of information for millions of Americans. But the story you get depends on the channel you watch.

In view of the public's weak awareness of protecting ethnic ancient books and lack of sufficient understanding of the important value and role of ethnic ancient books, the team tries to focus on...

The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...

The Public Theater has staged Shakespeare in the Park since 1962—one of New York City’s most beloved summer traditions. We were interested in visualizing a complex data set of productions,...

An aguayo is a centuries-old form of storytelling through textile created by the Aymara people in the highlands of Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. The weavings encode their community's history into...

This information chart expounds the relevant information of stroke from the aspects of stroke epidemiology, youth trend, risk factor analysis, symptom judgment and first aid, in order to popularize...

On April 17, 2019, Xinhua News Agency published "Dare! Superstars Fall" —Talking about the life story of Xia Suisheng, the pioneer of organ transplantation in China, and the status of domestic...

I started by taking a look at my career history and surfacing trends I could find. Once I had a gone through the mental task of mapping of my past job responsibilities, the respective categories of...

A web application that visually reconstructs the thoughts and feelings which occurred during a classical musical performance. Keynote and documentation at...

This 7-meter by 3-meter canvas holds 2.3 million dots—each representing one person in the Netherlands struggling with mental health. The sheer number of dots, organized by age groups, illustrates...

In India, love and marriage are deeply intertwined with cultural and societal norms. For centuries, arranged marriages have been the norm, with families playing a central role in choosing partners...

While we all strive for it, happiness is a hard thing to achieve. This was especially true for 2020 which according to the Hedonometer was the saddest year on record. Living these sad thoughts...

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

This infographic charts the 3 highest mountains on each of the seven continents across the world. The visualization shows isometric illustration of the 1st highest of all the continents, and uses...

For those who have not watched "Parks and Recreation" the TV show, Ben, one of the main characters in the show, has an obsession with calzone (the food). I obtained the transcripts of the show...

The US is in political crisis. Also economic crisis. And health crisis. And climate crisis. And, you know, our foundational racism crisis. Plus the swelling income inequality! What does it mean to...

Park Life is a physical installation consisting of painted panels that visualizes the diversity of animal life found in five U.S. National Parks: Death Valley, Glacier, Grand Teton, Hot Springs,...

Just because you're at work, doesn't mean you're actually getting work done. Between excessive emails, pointless meetings, and constant interruptions, your productivity takes a back seat. You're...

Enroll-HD is a clinical research platform and the world’s largest observational study for Huntington’s disease (HD). It is a resource for the entire HD community, including families, clinicians,...

Data shows why the volcanic lightning storm from the Tonga eruption was unlike anything on record. Reuters used data from a ground-based global lightning detection network to visualize the...

This visualization (interactive version here) is a musical history of one of my favorite artists: Bruce Springsteen. It focuses on his 200 songs and 17 original studio albums over a 45 year career....

A visual representation of how Brexit began to fragment Prime Minister Theresa May's party over time. After analysing the voting patterns of 650 members of British parliament on how they swayed,...