This chart approaches the fundamental question from a data-driven perspective, and it provides one potential solution: money does buy some happiness, but only to a limited extent.

This is the third piece in a triptych of three titled MAD (Music-Astronomy-Drugs). There is a shared musical, celestial, and psychedelic quality to all three pieces. Here I depict the safety (or...

People naturally come together to meet shared needs, whether it's navigating the intricacies of financial interdependence, finding a balance in power dynamics, dealing with time constraints,...

Through compelling data visualisation and interactive storytelling, this digital story breaks down an often-overlooked environmental challenge: the massive carbon footprint of India's dairy cold...

The Cerberus Fossae are a set of west-north-west trending fractures that cut across the Cerberus Plains on Mars. The Cerberus Plains are located approximately between 1550 E and 1800 E and between...

The aim of this project is to represent invisible data on the topic of gender-based violence by displaying it in a poster and a data physicalization. Since July 2023, following the violence known...

"A Year of Light" explores the evolution of the day-night cycle throughout the year and according to latitude. This visualization presents a luminous identity map of several cities around the...

In today’s rapidly changing world, the way children experience their surroundings is also changing fast. As the world is increasingly becoming more digital, globalized, and diverse, childhood is...

In February we released a project Our World in Data had been working on: SDG-Tracker.org, the first (and only, to date) resource where you can track our progress towards the United Nations...

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...

Since June 2016, Britain’s position in the EU has remained uncertain due to Brexit. As a consequence of this political uncertainty, Reuters looked at how the British economy has positioned itself...

For our wedding, we created a network graph of the connections between all of our guests and designed individualized data-driven badges that highlighted each guests’ unique relationship to us, the...

In the summer of 2022, the water levels in the Yangtze, China’s largest river, hit a record low due to low rainfall in the river basin, reduced water flowing in from its upper reaches, and hotter...

Amelisweerd is a small parkland in the heart of the Netherlands that has long been a subject of debate due to the highway running next to it. In the past, the expansion of this highway sparked...

A map showing all of the cycle paths in Netherlands using open street maps

Peak Spotting combines machine learning and visual analytics to help manage passenger loads within Germany’s vast railway network. The project provides yield and capacity managers with rich...

A series of articles and graphics for BBC Future about the long view of humanity. Looking at populations and civilisation collapse. In the first article we want to get across the scale looking at...

Who would the rest of the world vote for? A data-driven digital experience visualizing “soft” and “human” data to discover the world’s interest in the 2016 US presidential candidates. By looking...

Voter Turnout in RI is a datastory that allows the public to take an easy-to-use deep dive into data describing the where, who, and how of turnout in recent RI elections. Using a combination of...

What career pathways do successful founders of billion-dollar companies actually take? To find out, our Endeavor Insight research team compared the pathways between 100 of the top unicorn founders...

The short story behind how Snapchat, this year’s most anticipated tech IPO, started in 2011, less than 6 years ago. In that short time, Snapchat went from $0 to $25 Billion in valuation. Compare...

Scientists say the pandemic will end in the U.S. only when we achieve what's called herd immunity. Play with our simulations to see how immunity can stop an outbreak in its tracks. We explain a...

The "Biodiversity" project is based on a study by the Leopoldina Academy on the connection between species extinction and agriculture. The particular challenge was to put this extensive study into...

Women Artworks at MoMA

In basketball, each player performs their role. Some focus more on offense, others on defense, while some support the entire team through their actions. In the "NBA Gems" visualization, the Ternary...

My Life Through Data is a physical interactive workbook of activities for people to track their daily habits, visualize them in a beautiful and unique way, then compare their lives to the American...

The AAPI Nonprofit Database aims to connect the community to AAPI nonprofit organizations across the country through one comprehensive, up-to-date, and interactive tool. With support from the...

We illustrated over 200 masked wrestlers and showed how they are connected by design, geography, and culture. Choose a guided story or explore on your own.

On my flight to Lisbon, ready to start a new exciting, but scary experience alone, I sketched this idea I had for a handmade data visualization in my notebook. From that first moment, I kept...