The map of America’s gun violence epidemic can seem overwhelming. There were more than 13,000 gun homicides in the US in 2015, across nearly 3,500 cities and towns. But the toll of this gun...

The social media landscape is much broader than one might imagine. Behind the big giants, there are hundreds of social media that like to declare themselves alternative by offering an option to...

NHS hospitals were forced to add over 5,000 extra beds in one day this winter — that affects the care patients received.

The United States has joined more than 90 countries in a pledge to combat climate change and species extinction by safeguarding 30 percent of Earth’s land and water by 2030. These maps show areas...

Content Warning - Miscarriage This visualisation was created in honour of International Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day last year. It is estimated that one in four pregnancies end...

IN COLLABORATION WITH CJR, a team of Columbia Journalism School students transformed our Pulitzer demographics database into an interactive graphic. This project, part of a graduate course on media...

Air pollution is one of the most serious problems of our time. Polluted air harms animals and plants and affects human health, yet many still do not realize how dangerous the consequences can be....

Billions of people and animals rely on the benefits of the Amazon rainforest, including food, fresh water, shelter and climate control. Forests such as the Amazon play a critical role in mitigating...

An innovative digital art installation on the ground floor of the new Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia’s Manhattanville campus invites visitors to peer inside the brain and meet the...

The interactive data story Dog Breeds features a narrative structure and contextual details that aid in the reader's grasp of the story's importance. The goal was to make the data more engaging by...

More than any other storm since Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy was a rude wake-up call that the effects of Climate Change to coastal communities. Some of the most iconic images of destruction...

The Dalai Lama asked Paul Ekman and Stamen Design to design him an Atlas of Emotions. This online interactive project visualizes what science knows about emotions, emotional states, triggers,...

Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, 29 spaceports around the world have been used to launch satellites to orbit. This interactive map and timeline shows the cumulative launches from each...

2018 was a significant year for Singapore Airlines, providing 20 million passengers with world class transport to over 63 destinations worldwide, using its fleet of 121 aircraft. Further, the...

Public Safety data in Brazil is a difficult subject, almost impossible for a regular person to grasp. The data is spread across different government agencies and, more often than not, the agencies...

With sky-high consumer confidence, historically low unemployment and a growing economy, retail should be booming. Yet more chains are filing for bankruptcy and rated distressed than during the...

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...

We have mapped the “ethnicity” of 2,958 nominees in the 6 major award categories at the Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best...

This is an infographic about solid waste management, revealing the risk we are facing. The infographic totally includes world map about waste generating, main types of waste generated, regional...

Who are the key climate change influencers on Twitter? To find out, Carbon Brief and Right Relevance embarked on a year-long collaboration to collect and analyse 13 million climate-related tweets...

Linear algebra and matrix computations are often presented in math class as an array of inane formulas and calculations to drill and memorize. This explorable explainer attempts to present a deeper...

Living Ruins is a fictional environmental campaign aimed to educate people about the multitude of benefits that coral reefs bring to tourism, fishing industries, coastline and biodiversity...

For those who have not watched "Parks and Recreation" the TV show, Ben, one of the main characters in the show, has an obsession with calzone (the food). I obtained the transcripts of the show...

Countries with large demographics have obviously more athletes to pick from and thus will collect a larger number of medals. This infographic aims to show which countries were the real winners at...

What we search for reveals something of ourselves: our interests, our fears, our curiosity, or simply what we have forgotten. And it's not just what we search for, as how we search reveals...

All 4.5 million Uber pick-ups, and 82.4 million yellow cab pick-ups between April and September 2014. The rise of Uber is well documented, but the geographic complexity is often harder to see as...

The dramatic fact that herring gulls are an indicator for the pollution of the marine ecoystem is made visible. Interactive data sculptures were generated from the measured values of toxic...

Duke Lemur Center houses several hundred lemurs, many of them endangered species. This table explores of 27 of the species of lemur that have been housed there, showing the number of males and...

This website allows you to take any picture and split it into thousands particles. The particles are arranged according to color intensities into a histogram.

This visualisation shows the linguistic diversity of the Arctic, focusing on the main language families, using data from the Arctic Indigenous Peoples Languages and Revitalization project. I chose...