How are we visualizing topographic data?
This infographic shows the diversity of Switzerland's topography in a 3D south-north transect. The idea of this datavisualisation project was to use recent...
This data-driven visual narrative explores the evolution of urban mobility, highlighting electric vehicle adoption, public transport expansion, and sustainable city planning. Through striking...
The summer of 2019 witnessed a very active market where NBA teams traded in and out many relevant players. The research digs into the flow of players exchanging teams, focusing on the value of...
Standard solid-color blob maps of individual tree species show where a particular tree might be found; this is why they’re useful in field guides. But in order to show the higher-level patterns of...
Donald Says is a press review for Donald Trump related news. This website analyzes 40+ U.S. news feeds and delivers an overview for up-to-date news trends. It shows the frequency of new articles,...
Did you know it’s not that hard to identify bots and automated accounts on social media? You can simply follow the traces they leave and their non-human behavior is easily revealed! Accurat turned...
Urban World helps navigate the unprecedented global wave of urbanization. Users can compare GDP, population and household income for more than 2,600 cities worldwide, in 2010 and in one scenario...
Can data visualization help you cope with confinement?
My name is Noemi, I am divorced and I am the mother of two children who, during the 2020 confinement, were 12 and 13 years old. This...
The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) of Washington DC manages and maintains transportation infrastructure. In the district, many commuters use public transport instead of a personal...
The organizational chart is a business necessity, and normally the furthest thing from a description of business culture. This artwork visualizes the hierarchical positions of employees of the...
“Hello From The Data Vandals (or free as air and water, or whatsoever things are true)” is the first exhibition by the Data Vandals (artist Jen Ray and dataviz designer Jason Forrest) at The Cooper...
To celebrate the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, the Playfair Data team created Tracking Titans, a longform infographic that alerted fans and sports media in near real-time when track and...
Siria: Danni Collaterali (Syria: Collateral Damages) is a visual journalism project which sheds a light on the destruction of historical heritage during the Syrian civil war. Text insights and maps...
This graphic-driven gatefold shows the sheer size and complexity of the brain. Researchers at Harvard and MIT provided National Geographic with 3-D models of a mouse brain at incredibly small...
Women in government in the modern era are under-represented in most countries worldwide. Even though some progress has been made during the last two centuries, and women are increasingly...
What happens when the maps that millions of Americans rely on to make informed decisions about flood risk are rife with inaccuracies?
"Outdated and Unreliable: FEMA's Faulty Flood Maps Put...
“Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash” is a series that uncovers how state and local governments are using — and misusing — billions of dollars they’re receiving from companies that fueled...
Sampling Donuts explores the use of sampled music on J Dilla's instrumental hip-hop album, Donuts. The project combines data gathered from WhoSampled, a user-generated website of hip-hop samples,...
Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is...
A collaborative research effort between three organizations — Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), Duke University, and North Carolina Blue Cross Blue Shield (NCBCBS) — intended to shed light on...
Every summer, typhoons rage in the southeast coast of China, causing great losses to the coastal people. We visualized the tracks of all the 1832 typhoons since 1949, and unfolded the story around...
Humans grow and waste food at a staggering scale.
We devote half the earth’s habitable land to food production, while ultimately tossing one-third of that food. Simply using the food we grow and...
This is an exploration of the best-selling electronic music tracks from 2020 to 2023, this story uses data from Spotify’s Analysis API and Beatport rankings, revealing the tracks that shaped...
The Tunguska event: A blast from the past’ is a special TASS project that takes an in-depth look at a large mysterious explosion that occurred on the morning of June 30, 1908. TASS reconstructed...
Does size matter? I built a data visualization that focuses on small countries. The visualization shows the six World Governance Indicators, the ranking on the Human Development Index, the number...
Boar straying into urban areas has been a problem in many modern cities, the boar problem in Hong Kong refers to the increasing population of wild boars in urban areas. Rapid urbanization has...
Sea-level rise poses a global threat to coastal species around the world, as critical habitat is steadily consumed and fragmented by rising waters. This threat is particularly stark in the case of...