Roughly 2.2 million people are locked up in prison or jail; 7 million are under correctional control, which includes parole and probation; and more than $80 billion is spent on corrections...
Much of the American West is in a prolonged drought. Western Water tracks the water levels of reservoirs across the western United States. It is a proxy for water availability in the selected...
This story features an agricultural project from Uganda. A team of scientists joined 358 farmers who sourced the data themselves for this project. In two districts they tested the best bean they...
The two large prints (150x75cm) are visualizations of income inequality in Los Angeles and Chicago. They are printed on matte Somerset Velvet paper and mounted on thick wooden boards. The images...
Recent fossil discoveries have allowed researchers to reconstruct the evolution of mammals from their humble, shrewlike ancestors to the extraordinairy variety of forms, including humans, that...
The electoral map is many shades of Republican and Democrat—and always shifting. Which states have moved to the middle, and which are slipping out of reach for the opposition party?
Where do the roots of humankind lie? A video exploring the earliest origins of our species, taking the viewer on a journey about the biological and social developments that lead from apes to homo...
An infographic about the recent rise in military exercises both from NATO and Russia in the northern Europe.
Published on La Repubblica on June 18th, 2015
TRANSLATION:
Troop...
I spent a week on the couch with Tarantino’s oeuvre, watching people die and swear a blue streak. When someone was killed by a gun or a sword or a venomous snake, or someone was called a...
A visualization of the ethnicities of the directors and actors of the 1000 highest rated movies on IMDB (February 2016). The idea originated from the debate of #OscarsSoWhite on social media. Thus,...
This text is designed to accompany your study of introductory digital signal processing. It’s an eccentric piece of not-so-rigorous literature with a preoccupation for explaining things using...
Around 1.9 million people work in creative occupations across the UK, which is approximately 6% of total employment. But where do these creatives live? And do some areas of the UK have a higher...
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,...
Visualisingdata.com is an award-winning site providing readers with a rich variety of content that charts the development of the data visualisation field as well as profiling the professional...
Data-driven analysis of the Social Security Administration’s data on American baby names showing that the film franchise has definitely moved the needle on naming trends in the US.
Inspired by the SMH article "Casino buses in migrants who hope 'to live beyond their means"(Heath Aston; December 11, 2011), we created a series of map to show the influence of The Star casino on...
Olympians are young, supremely healthy people who’ve been training with the intensity of combat troops for years. Suddenly they’re released into a cocoon where prying reporters and overprotective...
In the final sentence of his study of nineteenth‐century canals, Ronald E. Shaw points to the limitations of most canal maps: “The long lines of canals now drawn on our maps ... are but the...
The artwork shows the songs present in the charts in Italy, year by year, from 1947 to 2013; and the twenty most common words, decade by decade, recurring in the same songs.
Specifically, from the...
More and more people are moving to cities, but don’t want to do without a green environment. Plants not only contribute to the subjective well-being of residents, but also offer tangible benefits –...
Unioncamere Lombardia is the association of the twelve public Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Crafts of Lombardy. Unioncamere publishes a report on industrial and manufacturing...
Our bodies are extraordinary. They contain elements that have a commercial value, megabytes of data, and trillions of cells, most of which aren't our own.