Our health system is primarily focused on medical information for each patient when in reality, the majority of our health is determined by factors outside that space. The Determinants of Health is...

Without tangible cues or visible indicators of the envi­r­o­n­­mental impact, individuals may fail to recognize the connection bet­ween their digital activities and carbon emissions. This lack of...

New York State of Incarceration focuses on trends in jail population in the state of New York. While New York City jail population has dropped by more than half over the last 20 years, population...

Here’s a look at every single song that has reached the Hot 100, stretching back to 1958. Each tiny rectangle denotes a different song. The larger the rectangle, the longer the song stayed on the...

Oil spills are an environmental disaster, with more than 1,700 oil spills occurring between the 20th and 21st centuries, spilling more than 5.7 million tons of oil into the sea.The impact of the...

Interactive poster was developed for a showcase exhibition in Zurich to get visitors to participate and create fun conversations. Based on the YAAY method for interactive visual data collection, we...

General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all 543 members of the Lok Sabha. As India awaited the outcome of the 2024 General elections, this...

“Discrimination Is Breaking People’s Hearts” was part of a special package of articles highlighting problems and solutions in health equity. The Scientific American editorial team quickly...

A look at the capital punishment in the state of Texas US.

This visualization is a bit unique, as the design does not represent any actual measurement of data, but it is built using data and mathematics, and the design is fully up to the user. Users can...

The Supreme Court on June 27 struck down Texas abortion restrictions that had caused more than half of the state’s abortion clinics to close. Here is a look at regulations around the country....

When geometry and human intuition meet: What becomes of the intersection between pragmatic visual tools and emotion? Everybody worries about something. Worrying is an act of the everyday that...

Subreddits that had "active" users in common between 2015-2016 are linked by a directed edge whose weight is proportional to the fraction of users from one subreddit that were also active in the...

The work "IMDB Top Movies" presents the highest-rated movies from imdb.com. It examines movies with a rating of 7.5 or higher, which received 50,000+ votes. In total, just over 1000 films are...

The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty adopted at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in France in 2015. Its goal is to limit the average global temperature increase to...

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The graphic celebrates the milestone on its 60th birthday.

Pyongyang has accelerated its tests of missiles and nuclear bombs as it tries to develop a nuclear-armed missile that could hit the U.S. mainland.

In the 2014/15 concert season programme, the »Symphonieorchestra des Bayerischen Rundfunks« offers a peek behind the curtain. Here is a selection of the 21 infographics. Formula One in the concert...

Open Data Cam' is a tool that helps to quantify the world. With computer vision 'Open Data Cam' understands and quantifies what it sees. The simple DIY setup allows everybody to become an urban...

Harlequins are a rugby team based in West London, known and loved in the sport for their distinctive kit. This visualisation uses the quadrant style of their home shirt to display point for and...

This work is inspired by a similar poster by W.E.B. Du Bois. It shows links between slavery ports that dispatched people from Africa toward Brazil. The thickness of the line is proportional to the...

Nonprofit groups and smaller businesses may not have what qualifies as “big data,” but their data still has important stories to tell. Centre for Cities is one such organization. A leading...

It’s very easy to become overwhelmed by the climate emergency, the numbers quoted in news reports are so immense and the steps needed to genuinely tackle it seem so overwhelming. We wanted to...

This simple infographic gives a breakdown of reported UK & Wales crime cases by crime type and city.

The digitalization of todays society emerges into nearly all aspects of our lives. Musicians, dj‘s and producers mainly use digital music formats nowadays. Digital music files and current dj...

“God created time, the devil created calendars,” as the Austrian-American chemist Erwin Chargaff once wrote. But here of course that's not entirely true, since the ixtract calendar you find beneath...

Applied Works conceptualized, designed and built Visi – an online dashboard that visualises real-time energy usage across London 2012 Olympic Park venues, Tower Bridge and the EDF Energy London...

Some names sound familiar, like Stephen Bannon and Donald Trump Jr., but most don’t.

What is the difference between a credit report and a credit score under the US system? Answer: Your credit reports and your credit scores are two different things. A credit report is a statement...

Kobe Bryant's 30,699th and final field goal came from 19 feet with 31 seconds left against the Utah Jazz. During his 20 years with the Lakers, he fired up more than 30,000 shots, including the...