Our first reaction to the Indonesian Kanjuruhan Stadium Disaster as a team was a locator map with some simple references, after a few days I decided to go further by using good image sources and...

This infographic is meant to visually portray the cuisines of 5 very different countries from around the world. Illustrations of each country's signature foods are housed on dinner plates, with...

The electoral college map, which was ubiquitous during the 2016 US presidential election, masks the political differences within states. In this piece, I examine the political divide at a more...

This quantitative design project shows what the adjusted land mass of countries would be if those countries had the world average population density. Each of the grey dots represents the current...

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...

We teamed up with Census 2020 Data Co-op to design and build an embeddable map that displays Census data at the national level, as well as for states, counties, and census tracts. The Census data...

This series of four posters was designed as introductory visuals to complement the texts of the "Future Scenarios" project (https://zukunftsbilder.net) by the German Scientists For Future and other...

Number Crunch is a monthly infographic published by Private Equity International. The piece takes two forms: a print version, which is published in every issue of Private Equity International...

This piece was inspired by my personal connection to New York City, ambulances, and the sirens that populated my current home of London during the pandemic. I tried to create a soundscape that...

In the city of Bristol, in the southwest of England, up to 260 people a year die as a result of air pollution. That’s 5 people a week. Most of these deaths are caused by particulates released by...

A simple primer for Bayes's Rule, the law of probability governing how to revise beliefs based on the strength of new evidence.

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...

Since music albums with cover art became the standard during the vinyl era, these two have become inextricably attached. Now, in the streaming era of digital distribution, a new call is open to...

People killed by the police in Kenya.

This infographic visualises data regarding women: life expectancy, percentage of the population, and finally, the difference between the percentage of women in parliament in 1990 and 2014 for...

This page lists media reports, collected by Google News, about hate crimes and bias incidents. The “keywords” column contains names and places found in the news reports in the “articles” column....

This dashboard was originally made for the World Data Visualization Prize but provides a quick overview of the selected metrics for the whole world. The possibility to choose one metric and compare...

COVID Gowns is an interactive online visualization of Canadian COVID-19 cases. A common horizontal timeline or horizontal bar chart is limited by how much data can be included because the data will...

Gun violence in the United States results in thousands of deaths and injuries annually. Gun violence is most common in poor urban areas and frequently associated with gang violence, often involving...

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...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most giant leap for mankind, we visualise all the missions to the Moon.

Burning coal comes with a wide range of health impacts, and the corporations burning it are to blame. Just ten companies are estimated to be responsible for almost two-thirds of the health impacts...

For thousands of years, humans have used plants for medicinal purposes, and we still source drugs from plants today, including breakthrough treatments for cancer, malaria, neurodegenerative...

This multimedia activity included a 2-page infographic in the medical journal Chest, and a companion online interactive infographic. It was created to educate US-based health-care providers (HCPs)...

Visualise the sun's position through the seasons and see the sunlight’s effect on your surroundings in augmented reality. With the 'Hello, Sun.' app you’ll never be left wondering where the sun is...

Can sound and visuals be used in tandem to accurately convey what chronic migraines feel like to someone who has never had the experience? What can a migraine look like? Sound like? Is there a...

This work visualises nearly 95 million casualties of war from the 20th century. Data made available by The Polynational War Memorial make clear that war was a near-constant characteristic –...

R. Crumb was responsible for sparking the underground comix (with an x) revolution of the '60s and '70s that brought satirical and adult-themed titles into the mainstream. He was one of the most...

For many, understanding code is difficult, and yet it is the backbone of the devices we continue to rely on every day. At the same time as code has grown in complexity. Exploring Hidden Worlds...

In the 12 months after the Maine DOT raised speed limits, crashes increased dramatically north of Portland, but the number of crashes in Portland and South Portland – the freeway's most crowded...