Probe the solar system from Mercury to Pluto with this stellar schematic of space exploration! From the Luna 2 in 1959 to the DSCOVR in 2015, this color-coded chart traces the trajectories of every...

From the franchise's birth in 1995 to it's championship win in 2019, the Toronto Raptors' 24 year history is visualized using barcode charts.

“It is an automated response system designed for clients to independently and pro-actively measure their sales team’ performance in activating their look of success in trade; they will be able to...

Newly released data shows the true extent of industrial fishing. More than 55 percent of the surface of the world’s oceans is fished, with China accounting for vastly more than any other country.

Oil-paper umbrella is the traditional umbrella of the Chinese nation. It is made by natural hand and is the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient Chinese. With the progress of science and...

Modern slavery effects 21 million victims on any given day. Exploited Hopes and Dreams in Modern Slavery explores the story of two victims in Switzerland and brings to light how traffickers prey on...

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...