In the early euphoria following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Germany moved quickly to erase the scars of its Cold War division. But East Germany’s legacy remains visible in...

During my master’s program in Business Analytics/ Data Science, I perceived relationships and similarities between the data-oriented expressions and human’s story-telling methods. Inspired by the...

At any one moment in time, thousands of measurements are being taken of the world’s weather. Across land, sea and sky, data is being gathered manually and automatically using a range of...

The Iowa Flood Information System (IFIS) is a one-stop web platform to access community-based flood conditions, forecasts, visualizations, inundation maps and flood related data, information, and...

For three years I have been at a treasure hunt for extraordinary data, information and imagery throughout the Swiss mountains, archives and open source catalogues. With the profound help from...

NASA's New Horizons flyby of Pluto caps more than 50 years of exploring our nearest celestial neighbors. Here's a chance to look back at the moons, planets, asteroids and comets photographed by...

I grew coffee and drank it, made some notes.

Until recently, it was impossible to measure the popularity of older music. Billboard charts and album sales only tell us about a song’s popularity at the time of its release. But now we have...

Glassdoor is probably the most well-known resource for job search, company reviews, and salary monitoring. I collected data through scraping and parsing job listings for 'Data Analyst' positions in...

The Covid-19 Dashboard is the official source of information by the Federal Office of Public Health about the epidemiological situation in Switzerland. The platform provides a diverse audience with...

Among top-grossing films, which received the absolute worst reviews, relative to the amount of money it made? And where does Batman v Superman fall on this spectrum?

The work extracts the trails of every birdwatcher from the data of 460,000 birdwatching footprints in Chongming. It captures the nationwide birdwatching footprints of opinion leaders or Key Opinion...

The M29 bus route cuts straight through Berlin. It starts in the villa districts in the west of the city, passes through the troubled inner city areas, and ends in Berlin’s trendiest districts....

This journalistic investigation is an innovative integration of cross-border journalism, data analysis and digital storytelling. It delves into European citizenship processes and exposes systemic...

Climate TRACE is comprehensive emissions tracking covering GHG and other air pollution from millions of sources around the world. Our data is built by a global non-profit coalition of scientists...

This is not a graphic experiment to represent Beethoven's work, but a precise research that attempts to narrate the musical and stage performance by the Quartetto Sincronie. So we decided to tell...

How can we show TAXPAYERS how their funds are being used within the canton and which projects are being realized in the field of DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION? What information do BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES...

Click on a country on the map to filter all the coups from 1950. Use the sliders to choose between cold war and post-cold war, or to focus on a specific period.

The second largest polluing country in the world blatantly denies the existence of global warming, while we are witnessing some of the harshest environmental disasters directly related to the issue...

Visualizing five millennia of solar eclipses to explore their cyclical nature.

“Made By Numbers” is a project that uses our company’s own 2014 data to generate a unique, artistic output representing our brand. We mined a year of HUSH’s data and used it to design a physical /...

This visualization focuses on fictional comic book characters who are adherents of real-world or fictional religions. Also, as an American genre, superheroes comic books closely represent American...

This is a summary of the history of (Western) philosophy showing the positive/negative connections between some of the key ideas/arguments of the philosophers. This first version is based mostly on...

Population.io aims to make demography – the study of human populations – accessible to a wider audience. Demographic data can play an important role in understanding the social and economic...

A major nationwide investigation that revealed how in seven states victims of crime who apply for victim’s compensation to help with funeral expenses, lost wages and hospital bills are rejected if...

This data visualisation shows the municipal toponyms for which it is possible to suppose a genesis within a known ancient language, and therefore connect the foundation of each settlement to a...

Due to the rainy season and the geography of Marikina City, it was considered to be one of the most devastated areas during Typhoon Ketsana back in September 2009. We created a data story on the...

The GA4 Swift from Playfair Data addresses the challenge faced by organizations this year following the introduction of Google Analytics 4 ("GA4"). In GA4, reporting is now organized around...

The world’s population is getting older. Japan is on the forefront of this demographic trend that will affect Germany, China and Italy in coming years. This piece explains which countries are...

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...