How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...

Layers of Bangladesh is a three dimensional artefact enabling an interactive exploration of data relating to climate change in Bangladesh. It takes as a reference point web-based data...

"Dataviz in Perspective: teaching and professional practice of data visualization in Brazilian Design" is the first-ever original publication entirely dedicated to data visualization, from the...

‘Inspiring a Movement: The Warming Stripes’ is a visualisation depicting and evaluation how Ed Hawkin’s famous ‘Warming Stripes’ graphic has grown over the last 4 years, becoming a global symbol of...

This timeplot is a visualization of the progression in political ideology of every House seat from 1789 to 2012. The main stream is made of more than 36,000 circles, each representing one...

40 years of divorce data in France. Infographics published in french newspaper Libération on july 11th to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the law establishing divorce by mutual consent.

The Witcher, a fantasy novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, has inspired multiple computer games and was even launched on Netflix in 2019, with the latest season airing in December 2021. Fictional...

China's high-speed railway has achieved world-leading results in all aspects from the perspective of CR400AF, China's high-speed railway infrastructure and China's high-speed railway lines. This...

An infographic map of the bears in Finland.

The graphic shows every Welsh Assembly Member since 1999, how long they served, and which party. 

This piece helped to introduce Boston residents to the 12 candidates vying to replace Mayor Tom Menino, who has held office for two decades. We chose to focus on the geographic base that each...

This visualization highlights the Top 10 Attacking Players in FIFA 23, showcasing their exceptional performances and key statistics. Ranked by their overall rating, it provides an in-depth look at...

In 2014, I researched the musical origin of the word “shorty.” Turns out that Too $hort was the first to rap it and Lil Jon coined the southern-drawled “shawty.” Shorty wasn’t pervasive,...

Public opinion on 32 big issues over the past eight years

This visualization highlights the security risks faced by aid workers globally, drawing on data from the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD). It examines 7,852 recorded incidents over nearly three...

Explore One Piece: Devil Fruit Catalogue, a fun interactive tool that brings the fantastical devil fruits of One Piece to life. Reigniting my love of the series through the Netflix adaptation and...

The problem of racial discrimination has been a social problem in different countries. The unfair treatment of African and Caribbean Americans in the United States is one of the topics that has...

Since Google started keeping track in 2004, people have used Google to research holidays in Italy, Greece, Austria, Brazil, Thailand...they've searched for cities and islands, for ski resorts and...

Brazil is the country with the largest number of murders of trans people. Expressing yourself as a member of the LGBT community in this country and fighting against homophobia is almost the same...

The final chapter in his series on the birth of globalisation by Deputy Head of Infographics for the South China Morning Post, Adolfo Arranz is the story of ‘how silver changed the world’. Using...

Originally, this project was a way for Severino Ribecca to develop a knowledge of data visualisation and use as a reference tool. It was then made available for use by anyone in a field that...

With Ukraine’s counteroffensive well underway, the battle around Crimea proved a prime example of the novel ways in which Ukraine would probe and attack Russian defenses. This piece focuses on the...

These are New Zealand politicians’ social media fingerprints. The subject of the graph sits in the centre. The MPs who they are connected to in some fashion form a ring around the edge,...

A circular visualization compares the food carbon footprint index for the year 2018 per continent and for all 130 countries listed. The food carbon footrpint, provided by nu3, is estimated for...

Looking at the impact of the grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park

This piece captures the structural wiring of the human brain responsible for language processing. It also uses the line density of novel 'spider-web' plots to convey the relative distribution of...

Our World In Data covers a wide range of topics and visualizes the empirical evidence of how living standards changed over the last decades, centuries, and millennia.

"Erbario Vaccinale" ("Vaccine Herbarium") is a dissemination project on Instagram about the status of the COVID-19 vaccine campaign in Italy from its beginning to the summer of 2021 through the...

This visualisation shows 50-year average precipitation and temperature over a shaded relief map of Japan. The visualisation is created using the free and open-source R statistical computing...

Researchers pinpoint the top 15 “Sleeping Beauties,” studies published years ago that are now the talk of the town