Artwork for Visual Data, the column on "La Lettura", the cultural supplement of "Corriere Della Sera". The visualization shows a sample of nations, divided by geographical areas and analyzed in...

We followed the efforts of volunteers and human rights workers to document the destruction of treasured Ukrainian buildings. We took point cloud data (gigabytes worth of material and billions of...

Given that every mark in a vector image adds a bit to the file, the size of a vector file is a good indication of its complicatedness or fussiness. So when designers talk about a design being...

The world has almost doubled its energy consumption since 1980. While renewable energy resources such as solar and wind power are getting cheaper to build, much of that demand growth has come...

In a world of increasing inter-connectivity, programming languages form the foundation. This outlines the history of those languages.

The scenes of protest in Hong Kong over the last few months can appear chaotic, filled with throngs of activists and waving umbrellas. But in the undulating waves of people is a well-developed...

When Formula One began in 1950, cars were designed purely for speed and crash helmets were not compulsory. The sport was both new, and deadly, with 11 driver fatalities in the first...

I am a cancer survivor - after surgeries and a long period of rehabilitation I can again use my left hand. I lived through this painful period without losing my sanity mostly thanks to my...

Climate change has had catastrophic effects on California’s forests, but the proposed solutions to protect them have ignored certain voices. This infographic shows how rising temperatures have...

Up to 79,000 Mexican migrants has been deported from the US back to Mexico. This view shows each record graphically to gain a better understanding of the data. Who they are, born city, skills,...

PHOTOVISUALIZATION, a personal exploration and explanatory presentation of photovisualization as a technique to humanize data. Ultimately answer, is Photovisualization, part of Data...

It's evening rush hour near MacArthur Park, and the streets teem with activity. Crowds pack the crosswalks, weaving around cars that nose through to make right turns. Men pull food carts and...

The use of Analytics in the Football industry (European Football, or Soccer) is in its infancy. Unlike the US, where analytics are integral to any sports organisation, in Europe, it's just getting...

This is the average day of 1,000 Americans. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, I modeled a day as a time-varying Markov chain and simulated their time to the minute. The animated...

26 March marked the 18th anniversary of the death of Stanislaw Lem, Poland's most famous (science fiction) writer. Come with me on a journey into the solar system of his works.

Imagine if policy makers and interventionalists had the ability to access and explore aggregate health information from across geographic regions at their fingertips. The Population Health OutcomEs...

Language is an extension of individual identity, as vocabulary is freely chosen on social, cultural, and economic base. This map presents the Digital Humanities Conference 2019 through its...

Taste is a complex 4 dimensional experience. Different parts of the tongue, mouth and nasal cavity detect different aspects of flavour, scent and texture independently, yet together form a complete...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, data visualization has been a political battleground. Well-known graphics like "Flatten the Curve" played a central role in early public health messaging around...

Persua created this infographic for the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI). The aim was to briefly illustrate the history of papermaking in a clear and visually interesting way. We...

Graphically exploring the fluctuations of success across the film careers of a selection of actors and directors

In the age of big data the correct processing and interpretation of the information available is vital when planning focused advertising campaigns in order to reach the proper audience. We have...

Multidimensional Scaling is a technique to visualise similarities in datasets. It works by projecting a high-dimensional dataset into a two-dimensional space. While the resulting visualisations...

The national parliamentary representation of men and women across 175 countries between 1997 and 2019. Developed as part of an Operation Fistula and Tableau Makeover Monday collaboration, Viz5,...

How has the world's health changed in your lifetime? Put yourself at the centre of our Global Health Check.

Risk assessment tools -- tests that are supposed to measure a prisoners risk of recidivism -- are coming into increasing use. These tools can reduce the size of prison populations and avoid...

Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis and data visualization to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, sports, science, economics and culture.

The visualization explores how different languages present Van Gogh's work and life by images. Inspired by Geolinguistic Contrasts in Wikipedia. The viz tries to show different narrative strategies...

On April 17, 2019, Xinhua News Agency published "Dare! Superstars Fall" —Talking about the life story of Xia Suisheng, the pioneer of organ transplantation in China, and the status of domestic...

The far-right AfD could win in the upcoming elections in eastern Germany for the first time. We analyzed polls and discovered a pattern connecting infightings with voter approval. Along the...