How much money exists in the world? Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...

Deepfakes — which use machine learning to create fake videos — burst onto the internet in 2017 and were decried as the end of trust, having the potential to bring down democracy, and evidence of...

This interactive article presents a so-called “explorable explainer” of the k-means clustering algorithm. It attempts to push the envelope of how visual explanations can be designed on an...

With five different data sets from three different sources we can get a sense of how Manhattan's at work and at home populations change throughout the day to create a breathing city.

Rare earth elements are a group of metals of great economic and technological significance. They possess a great number of irreplaceable properties and play a key role especially with regard to...

This infographic examines the evolution of Argentina's national football team, bridging the past and the present. It draws inspiration from heartening stories that surfaced after Argentina's 2022...

A project that visualizes news coverage of murders in Mexico. A Machine Learning algorithm was created and trained to locate, collect, and analyze news stories online. After the data was filtered...

Some of the greatest reflections on society take place in film, through complex characters, often falling into familiar patterns called “Tropes”. Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer...

Market Map is an experimental data visualization project that explores new ways of visualizing the US stock market data. We believe that the map can help the wide audience of people interested in...

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...

How do you keep track of security situations on thousands of servers world-wide?

The Swiss Post recently presented various information and resources on e-commerce. The scrollable microsite conveys the notion of e-commerce being more than just an online shop. Interdisciplinary...

"The Stories Behind a Line" is a visual narrative of six asylum seekers' routes from their hometown to Italy. The website wants to tell their stories through the data that shaped their personal...

With increasingly sophisticated data available, major league hitters are focusing on getting the ball in the air.

This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1387 genres by The Echo Nest. The...

Sound as Color is an exploration in converting audible frequencies to electromagnetic waves. This makes them perceptible to the human eye, creating a colour palette which corresponds to the audible...

China has a centuries-long history of displaying fireworks on Chinese New Year's Eve. As air pollution attracts more attention, fireworks became a target of criticism because they produce smoke and...

At the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), I've made dozens of infographics / data visualisations to present data from investigations, educational resources and research articles. Our main...

99 of the things that the Daily Mail thinks cause or cure cancer, using data from a crowd sourced index of Daily Mail articles.

When numbers get into the billions or trillions, they start to lose context. The U.S. national debt is one of those numbers. It currently sits at $19.5 trillion, which is actually such a large...

China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps that are rising from the desert sands in Xinjiang. A forensic analysis of satellite data covering 39 of these...

"Spain lives in flats" is an innovative and interactive journalistic project by elDiario.es that analyzes the footprint of more than 12 million buildings to map the height of Spanish cities in 3D...

These data visualizers imagined each era of U.S. immigration as a ring in a growing tree trunk.

This infographic portrays the result of a survey of almost 500 authors, journalists, editors, students, and media and marketing professionals, from best-selling authors, asking them: who is the...

New York State of Incarceration focuses on trends in jail population in the state of New York. While New York City jail population has dropped by more than half over the last 20 years, population...

In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions. Keep scrolling....

A 2018 study found that listening to birdsong can boost mental well-being for more than four hours. This project, intended for sharing on social media, aims to encourage people to engage with...

When you're hanging out at the beach and you gaze off into the horizon, do you know what is across the ocean from you? http://http://caiweiyi.com/

In 2022, regular Russian shelling has repeatedly caused blackouts in Ukrainian cities.The last three months of the year were the darkest ones for Ukrainians. We visualized the average number of...

A semi-realtime simulation of the number of COVID cases reported. This visualization was created before there were vaccines, and in the news you would only hear big numbers: "800 new cases...