In many Western countries, there is a significant divide between rural and urban attitudes. Does the same hold true for Germany? To find out, we took a closer look where people live and what...

Stadtbilder is an attempt to map the digital shape of cities. While traditional maps show us buildings, roads and physical infrastructure, these maps reveal where and in which form the city is...

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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...

We live-scraped Twitter during the Great British Bake Off finale to see what the great British public had to say about the biggest show of the summer.

Water is a bare necessity to us humans, and with the population explosion and rampant industrialization all around the world, we stare down the imminent Day Zero. Water, as we know it, will no...

Donald Trump’s rise from joke candidate to Commander in Chief was extraordinary. As Delayed Gratification is a Slow Journalism magazine, which reports on events at least three months after they’ve...

The visualization covers 119 years of the Tour De France, the world's largest and most prestigious bicycle race. It was first organized in 1903 and has been held annually since then (except World...

There is an idea that the content creator or "influencer" garners certain ideas and assumptions. Everybody seems to want to do it, but what they don't realize is the effort and time it actually...

I used thousands of pages of .pdf medical records, text message exports, and my photo library to build this store of my dad's terminal battle with metastatic melanoma. After we agreed that he would...

Exploring the Essence: Insights from Perfume Data Visualization This project explores a fascinating #TidTuesday dataset on perfumes, sourced from Parfumo, a community of perfume enthusiasts....

With the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow at a critical time in Scotland’s history, BBC News decided to preview the Games so viewers could get an insight into the excitement that was to come....

3D rendering of weather model output. The viewer floats above the sea, and focuses on a cloud system which formed over an island. The black "arrows" visualise rain falling out of the cloud. Where...

Animal hearing frequencies, visualized.

Visual aids to help medical professionals understand the benefits, risks, and results of tests. The guides ask in visual language: What difference will it make in the patient's life? What is the...

What is the EGOT club? Who are the EGOT winners, and, what does EGOT even mean? EGOT is the acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards – which collectively represent the most...

This dashboard chronicles the dice rolls for the entirety of Critical Role's second Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign, following the escapades of the Mighty Nein adventuring party. This was...

Stamps are more than just pieces of paper; they often commemorate important historical events, figures, or milestones. For collectors, owning a stamp is like owning a piece of history. The...

This visual and interactive report shows how the combination of several different types of data can be leveraged to provide a more systematic understanding of the efforts made to save lives in the...

During the confinement in Spain, between March and May, 53 consecutive days, we produced a daily visual column that was published in Diario de Navarra, the leading newspaper in the community. It...

New York City's transportation system moves millions of people every day, from MTA buses to regional Metro-North rail lines to the omnipresent subway . Multimodal Symphony animates 24 hours of NYC...

This project collects medical material into a visual design, which includes information charts, posters and app interface presentations. We feature ten main organs, and the most common diseases for...

A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. "Full of Themselves" is a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years, exploring how often,...

Florence was downgraded to a tropical storm on Friday evening, but still had sustained winds of 70mph. First published september 11 2018

We surveyed 756 people at the intersection of journalism and technology to understand who they are, how they learn and support one another, and where they go next.

This infographic delves into China's workforce composition and educational index within the broader scope of global population trends and education levels. It draws inspiration from crucial...

This project aims to activate and tune smartphone users’ material intelligence through stories and objects that provoke them to think about their relationship with their devices – and by extension,...

A century ago The Netherlands counted 6.5 million inhabitants. On March 21st of this year that number officially reached a total of no less than 17 million. That same day we published a combination...

The data visualization shows daily average food consumption of Mongolian population by urban and rural in 2020. It compares the daily average food consumption and recommended amount. The source...

Eight years. 533 campaign promises. Tracking the record of President Barack Obama.