Global warming is projected to rocket past the 1.5 °C limit, throwing lifelong activist Andrew Boyd into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the “impossible news” of...
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps below show number...
kepler.gl is a data-agnostic, high-performance web-based application for visual exploration of large-scale geolocation data sets. Built on top of deck.gl, kepler.gl can render millions of points...
Turkey’s deadliest quakes in modern times may have also unleashed a health catastrophe for generations to come. Asbestos, silica, mercury and lead are among thousands of toxins released by the huge...
Can food be a medium? What is the taste of data?
The Data Cuisine Workshop is an experimental investigation on the representation of data with culinary means, or — if you like — edible diagrams....
How does the impact of a scientist's work change over a scientific career?
Does impact, arguably the most relevant performance measure, follow predictable patterns?
Can we predict the timing...
There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of...
The "Zoonotic Web" visualization, created in collaboration with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, is an integral part of the paper titled "A One Health Framework for Exploring Zoonotic...
In Brazil, couples that want to adopt children need to go through an extensive examination and backround check. After they are accepted into the adoption proccess, they also need to fill a form in...
The UK government has invested in high-tech surveillance for the English Channel. But as the number of small boats arriving on UK shores continues to rise, it’s not clear whether this expensive AI...
Shipmap.org is an ambitious interactive WebGL map of commercial shipping movements based on hundreds of millions of data points from throughout 2012 (the most recent year for which all the raw...
In the Zamzam displaced persons camp, children were dying for months before it was found to be in famine. Here’s how the world’s hunger monitoring-and-response system is supposed to work – and why...
‘Life under curfew’ is an interactive real life data experience created by and for the residents of Dandora, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
When Covid-19 hit Kenya in the spring of...
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have played Google’s game Quick, Draw! prompting us to ask what takeaways it might have for global culture, like whether your location and language...
D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of...
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index visualizes a daily ranking of the world's richest people. The index is a dynamic measure of the top 100 billionaires based on changes in markets, the economy and...
By creating and sending the data visualisations using analogue instead of digital means, dear-data is what artists have done for ages, which is sketch and try to capture the essence of the life...
With the interactive map, users can follow the Berlin Marathon in time lapse for the first time, and compare the runners. The application shows how fast all 35,827 runners that finished the 2016...
The interactive scientific poster "Explore The Ocean" of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Marine Research explains complex marine science with a multi-touch display right on board the Hapag-Lloyd...
From his early childhood years sketching in the dirt to his final hours at age 91, Pablo Picasso was devoted to mastering his deeply personal art. Tens of thousands of works that touch on countless...
Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...
Political Polarization in the U.S. Congress has been a topic of much discussion recently. This visualisation shows polarization of the House of Representatives through time, with a focus on which...
Originally, this project began as my participation in the #30DayChartChallenge—a personal attempt to reflect on the world around me. It is a sketchbook, where each page became an opportunity to...
What does 50 years of human migration look like? The ebb and flow of people across borders has long shaped our world. Data from the past 50 years of international migration help us understand why...
To illustrate how difficult it is to get abortion care in the United States, we built a maze for each state where the difficulty is calculated by the state’s abortion policies.