For the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I marked every siren, helicopter and construction noise I heard on paper. I charted it here, and included other sounds and events within earshot from my...

The UK’s electricity generating sites and sub-sea interconnectors. Only currently operating sites of 1 megawatt (MW) capacity or larger are included. The size of the circles is proportional to site...

This story aims to focus on miners, rather than the precious gems they dig from the earth – exploring the complexities and exploitation in the mining industry in parts of Asia. We decided to...

This infographic shows traits of various quinoa varieties growing in the Netherlands.

Drawdown is the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. This is the point when we begin the process of stopping further...

A visual representation of the life and career of funny man, Adam Sandler.

This visualization is a modified version of Chernoff Faces, a technique that maps multiple statistical values to the features of a face. Because it's 2017, we expanded on the technique and made...

In October 2024, the Urban Institute launched the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard, a tool for local leaders to explore 24 conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in their...

Only two cities have had the distinction of being named the most populous city in the United States. The first one was Philadelphia, estimated to be the biggest city in the country at the time of...

Michael Schur was involved in the creation of 4 top hit TV shows - The Office, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 99 and The Good Place. This visualisation looks at cast members who featured...

The data visualization shows time spent on unpaid work by gender and women's participation in decision making in Mongolia. The source of the data is the open database (www.1212.mn) of the...

"In flight" is a live data-driven interactive documentary created by Kiln for the Guardian to mark the centenary of commercial aviation. It combines a cutting-edge real-time interactive map of...

This is my junior year's information course assignment in the last semester. At the time, I chose the historical event of Normandy landing. I learned the war and learned the greatness of this...

This interactive visualization let's you see Hamilton in a whole new way. Sing along if you want to any of the 45 amazing songs in the musical!

FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves. As for me, I'm Nathan Yau and I have...

It can be difficult to imagine what a cell looks like! Circles within blobs are the common diagrammatic images I remember from science lessons. These impenetrable visualisations confounded me. I...

In 2022, I went with my husband to Billie's Craft Beer Fest in Antwerp. When I got home, I decided to make an analysis of the beers we drank that day and how we scored those beers. You can see the...

Art Market for Dummies is an explainer. Everyone knows Picasso or Warhol, but few people know how the art market works. I wanted this explainer be accompanied by comprehensible datavisualisation. I...

A data visualization of how the world can be rearranged to national music preferences identified through Spotify. Spotify currently has 232 million active users a month and hosts over 50 million...

On Jan. 14, the Iranian tanker Sanchi sank in the worst oil shipping disaster in decades, killing all 32 crew onboard. Water contaminated by the cargo of toxic condensate oil and the ship’s fuel...

The infographic represents information about Felix Baumgartner and his jump from the stratosphere.

Complex technology which began with Conceptual ideas, small experiments, pilot projects and finally the entrepreneurial investment itself. This is a self-directed project to celebrate the 30th...

In Iran, at least 28 prisoners held on politically motivated charges have died in state custody due to beatings, denial of medical care or gross negligence on the part of state authorities since...

Colour trends in Instagram’s early-adopter photographer community.

USA TODAY’s analysis began in 2022 with data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Both track laws governing solar and wind...

By combining data, strategy, design and technology, CLEVERFRANKE creates tools that enable us to explore, understand and change the world to shape our future. @cleverfranke

Organised crime in Italy is current and urgent. The project, a visual analysis of organized crime in Northern Italy, aims to be a valuable tool to support the study of the phenomenon, providing to...

Actors often name their weapon of choice—though it is usually left to armorers.

A visualisation of the countries who have won medals in the modern summer Olympics

Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake are two of the most recent viral phenomena on the Internet, generating thousands of spin-off versions and billions of views. Pulsar TRAC's Content Tracking technology...