FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves. As for me, I'm Nathan Yau and I have...

This is a dot density map of religious identity across Greater London. Using data from the 2011 Census, I was able to represent each person as a single dot - that's almost 7 million for London...

“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...

Plotting climate data as a polar plot. 

After the policy of “The Belt and Road Initiative” has been put forward, we take the information design of the number of people entering China as the theme, and use the illustration to show the...

The size of protesting crowds is a contentious issue in Hong Kong. In many large protests, the headcounts estimated by police and protest organisers have been dramatically different. Accurately...

“The way we treat our bodies and extract and exploit our own energy, mirrors the way we collectively treat the precious resources of our planet” – Ruby May A WALL HANGING TAPESTRY THAT BRINGS...

A Star Wars KPI Dashboard containing information from movie review ratings to toy sales. Created in Qlikview.

#Observasegurança is a non-profit public safety data visualization tool. With millions of data points comprising 4 different databases - including ones that have never before been made public -...

Opinion Library is a project that continues and completes the research carried out for Sign here to fight the pandemic. The objective of the artifact is to expose part of the analysis carried out...

A vast reservoir of information on human health and behavior lives in our sewage.

A visualization of the number pi represented as a reflective line graph and color coded based on the sequence of the prime numbers. The image is painted on a wall on the busy corner of Grand St and...

"The Impatient List" is a storytelling piece that calls the general public 's attention to patients of the kidney transplant in the United States. Organ transplantation is a highly collaborative...

Manchester City were crowned Premier League champions with five games of the season remaining, equalling the English top-flight record. Explore the animation to see how this feat compares to every...

This analysis by University of Oxford researchers of previous outbreaks shows that the death rate has been greater than 33 percent and that there is often more than one cluster of infections,...

Encompassing legendary rivalries and boasting formidable teams, the South Eastern Conference (SEC) embodies an unwavering commitment to the art of football. Its legacy of nurturing premier talent...

The Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship offers in-depth measures, reports, and accompanying interactive data visualizations that present entrepreneurial trends in the United States. The website...

"Annual Report on Human Rights in Chile," focusing on abuses against LGBTQI+ communities between 2012 and 2021. It includes symbolic representations, such as matches illustrating the number of...

How different are the songs from each year? This is a data visualisation showing the evolution of Billboard's top-charting music between 2007 and 2017. This was originally a university...

From September to December 2022, I took some time off from work for myself, to hone and expand my skills in data visualization, and give space to creativity through personal projects and...

Baseball is a sport rooted in rules and regulations. Everything in the game is standardized, planned, and coordinated, based on a guideline or precedent. Everything, that is, but the park itself:...

Where a divided nation stands, half a century after Martin Luther King’s death

Aetui is a collection of visual poetry. Using the pentagram as a scaffolding, these poems connect concepts in tangential ways: these are puzzles to solve as much as poems to read, relaying visual...

This project is an infographic illustrating all 276 women who won gold medals at the London Olympics. While watching the London Olympics, Wendy Fox was fascinated by the vast variety in body...

There are approximately 300 billion stars in the galaxy. A constellation all its own, the human brain has about one-third that amount in neurons.

Dawes’s work, Cinema Redux, inspired us to take a serious look at how one would go about quantifying the amount of ‘redness’ that pervaded the Chinese media. Would the resulting outcome help to...

Though the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps families purchase the food they need, the maximum benefit rarely covers the cost of a modestly priced meal. This map from the Urban...

It is a web portal to show a real-time analysis and report of all posts on any forum/blog/social network about health. The key point of this site is the idea, which could be applicable to any area,...

In collaboration with OECD, we created an interactive data platform to help countries assess their state of digital development and formulate policy strategies in response. The toolkit supports the...