What we search for reveals something of ourselves: our interests, our fears, our curiosity, or simply what we have forgotten. And it's not just what we search for, as how we search reveals...

Data is everywhere. FlowingData helps everyone understand it, from different points of view.

Orchids are valuable, ornamental plants. In China, the orchid is called the national orchid mainly referring to the spring orchid, lily orchid, cymbidium, jianlan, cold orchid, merlan, spring...

It started with The Sex Pistols. Specifically, with The Sex Pistols’ June 4, 1976 show at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. The concert now ranks as one of the most influential...

Michelle Rial's peculiar and humoristic take on Google search data.

This visual story compares how Hong Kong and China apply the rule of law. The gap between the two systems is laid out and both jurisdictions are compared to the best and worst countries, as tracked...

Pedal is a community of bikers with the unique combination of protecting the environment and pursuing a healthier lifestyle. Pedal achieves this by tracking an individual’s carbon footprint and...

Charting miles of road and bike path in NYC.

Background: Creating visualizations that include multiple dimensions of the data while preserving spatial structure and readability is challenging. Here we demonstrate the use of geofaceting to...

As young researchers, we all strive to aim high in our careers. But how high may we plan? This project was born out of curiosity to see what statistics say about our chances to be published in...

Our brains allow us to do all sorts of things unique to humans: use sarcasm, solve crossword puzzles, envision our future. Their complexity also leaves us susceptible to conditions we don’t see in...

Migration Trail follows the journeys of two fictional characters: David, from Nigeria and Sarah, from Syria. Their stories are told via maps, data visualisation and social media, in real time over...

The project is about learning the design process and solving the problem through data. Being curious about online learning, I really wanted to research it. The inspiration was to study about online...

This was a project for my personal blog 'design and dragons' about design and Wales. Having moved to North Wales a couple of years ago and being asked a lot of questions about Wales, I wanted give...

The Stamps In My Passport visualises all of the places I have visited in the world for both fun and work. Supplementing the self collected data using travel itineraries, photographs and of...

The poster provides an overview of the pig market in Switzerland in 2018. The structure of the poster follows the production chain (inputs, production&prices, slaughter&processing,...

When numbers grow so large as to be incomprehensible, those numbers become easy to ignore. As a visual artist, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg felt compelled to physically manifest the mounting death...

2015 Street Tree Census, conducted by volunteers and staff organized by NYC Parks & Recreation

The visualization is created using Tableau software, and some design elements are created with MS PowerPoint. This viz displays a 360° overview of a project's status and key performance indicators...

For this visualization, I took the scripts of the TV show Parks and Recreation and created an infographic based on the information I gathered through the script data. I did the project in Excel...

This data visualization captured the spread of fatalities and injuries sustained during mass shootings in the US. This database from Mother Jones initially covered mass shooting cases from 1982 to...

A sankey diagram where connections between nodes are represented by goo.

What does 50 years of human migration look like? The ebb and flow of people across borders has long shaped our world. Data from the past 50 years of international migration help us understand why...

The set of 31 voronoi maps show water points monitored over time by governments and development partners for indiviual countries. The data is collected by the Water Point Data Exchange (WPDx)...

Bioregionalism is an attempt to align personal identity with natural regions rather than arbitrary political boundaries. But most bioregionalist mapping still relies on the familiar conventions of...

"Earth Carillon" is an interactive three-dimensional data visualization that explores the relationship between the human species and our planet's ecosystem over a decade. Our aim was to use modern...

Cosmic voids are vast spaces that contain few or no galaxies—less than one-tenth of the average matter density found in the Universe. They may have been formed by oscillations of matter during the...

IDC (International Detention Coalition) is an NGO that focuses on reducing immigration detention and finding further rights-based alternatives to detention. We made two information graphics for...

VizHeads is an independent and experimental interactive data visualization by odd.studio that displays a catalog of the most recommended people and organizations in the dataviz world according to...

We looked at the Best Picture winners from the past 90 years and analysed the number of nominations in other Oscar categories that they received in that year (nominations, not necessary...