What three years and 75,000 shows in New York tell us about the chance your favorite band will succeed.

As a follow-up to last week’s visualization of Old Light and New Light, I wanted to make a single map, of the whole world, comparing NASA’s new 2016 Earth At Night image to the 2012 version. Using...

BBC Knowledge commissioned Territory Studio (territorystudio.com) to produce an animated film on the subject of DNA. Three minutes is a short time to explore a subject where most doctorates only...

In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county's black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the...

Data is everywhere. FlowingData helps everyone understand it, from different points of view.

The ‘data-to-viz’ project aims to guide anyone to the most appropriate graphic representation for their given dataset. To do so, major chart types have been classified based on input data...

The streamgraph shown on this page represents the evolution of Kantian lexicon throughout his philosophical publications. A hundred of the most important words, of the Kant's philosophical...

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...

Scientists refer to the dramatic changes occurring in the arctic as “Arctic amplification.” A small change snowballs, and Arctic conditions become much less Arctic, much more quickly—like compound...

Traditional colors carry rich cultural genes, and traditional color libraries can connect design creativity with national aesthetic standards. However, the current online color libraries need help...

A special historical project by Russian news agency TASS dedicated to one of the most dramatic pages in Russia’s past – the Patriotic War of 1812. This program is based on a map outlined by French...

We worked in partnership with Italy–based NGO EMERGENCY to bring to life Afghanistan20: a historical document that utilizes imagery, journalism, and data visualization to portray with empathy the...

The second part of “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning” series, this installment describes a tradeoff fundamental to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using scroll-linked...

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...

20 years ago, he played his first professional match. Roger Federer has now won his 20th Grand Slam title. A data analysis of all the matches he has played reveals how he became the best tennis...

This project maps war dead recoded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission during the First World War. It's an attempt to quantify the price of the conflict and equate the scale to a contemporary...

With climate change raising Arctic temperatures faster than the global average, wildfires are shifting poleward where the flames blaze through boreal forest and tundra and release vast amounts of...

PhotoViz is a presentation, curriculum and book about the overlap between photography and data visualization. From a talk at Webstock, the concept matured into a class at NYU’s ITP before being...

The birth of the printing press not only revolutionized education and knowledge, it also reshaped the design of letterforms. This opened up a whole industry for printers-scholars, type cutters, and...

In 2012 I published a 6-panel infographic explaining the complexities of the Iranian internet. Today, more than ever, we know that censorship is not just happening in countries with oppressive...

What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface. Human light...

Almost half of Americans believe that immigrants make crime worse. But the data tells a different story. This visual piece examines the relationship between immigration and crime in American cities...

The changing shape of the world population pyramid, animated and explained. Published by The Economist. @petewinf

For The Migration Observatory in Oxford, CLEVERFRANKE created two different visualizations exploring the topic of migration; the first focusing on quantitative data taken from the 2011 UK census,...

This is not a graphic experiment to represent Beethoven's work, but a precise research that attempts to narrate the musical and stage performance by the Quartetto Sincronie. So we decided to tell...

The result of a three-month investigation, 3,121 desperate journeys breaks down the real cost of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. The piece aims to tell the story of just one week...

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s ‘listening guides’ make use of symbols and morse code-like notation to aid the experience of a live performance.

How informal street vendors define the sonic landscape of Mexico’s capital

This is the tenth and final Feltron Annual Report. The world of personal data has changed considerably since the project began in 2005 and this edition attempts to capture its current state. While...