The most famous train ever, a legend, an epic journey surrounded by a shade of mistery, glamour and the charm of the past golden times. How well do you know the Orient Express, its lines and the...

How do Americans use their land? Bloomberg’s exploration uses a series of unique 8,000-pixel maps in a distinctive, scrolling web experience. A mash-up of the latest data from the U.S....

The wolf – 2 sides of the discussion The wolf is back in the Netherlands and causing a big stir. While reading and listening about the wolf, I learned a lot, for example: - the wolf needs 4 kg...

“Breaking point” is a multimedia story that provides an in-depth, data-driven look at the global shipbreaking industry. Drawing on thousands of manually compiled records, interviews, and firsthand...

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The Green Party is on the road to success. In the European elections, they got a phenomenal result in Germany. But choosing Green doesn't always mean living ecologically. Less rubbish, more green...

In 2015, the global import-export market totaled $15.6 trillion. This animated map shows where those goods came from and where they went. Each dot represents $1 billion in value of a particular...

The ever-increasing pollution and the climatic emergency are increasingly relevant phenomena in the current situation of our planet. In this sense, it is important to understand which realities...

TravelTime is a data visualization based on open data from the Dutch National Data Warehouse for Traffic Information. The visualization shows 1 day of traffic in the Netherlands at 1 minute...

Virunga National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border of Uganda and Rwanda. It is Africa’s oldest national park and is also the...

This visualization shows the changes in energy consumption for 60 countries over a 50 year period. Each chart shows not only how total energy consumption has changed over that time, but also how...

This interactive globe shows the geology of Earth over the past 750 million years. Users can enter their locations to see where their homes are on the Pangaea supercontinent and other unique...

In October 2018, the first official Central Park Squirrel Census was conducted in New York City. The project — which involved 323 volunteer Squirrel Sighters and took two years to plan, execute,...

Using Tableau and Mapbox to create a map of bioluminescent species found on land and in the oceans on the east coast of Australia.

Burning coal comes with a wide range of health impacts, and the corporations burning it are to blame. Just ten companies are estimated to be responsible for almost two-thirds of the health impacts...

We revealed and illustrated widespread and systemic illegal logging by the Victorian government logging agency, VicForests, as well as the alleged complicity of its regulator, the Office of the...

Birds start singing in the early morning. What can be heard in the morning reveals a lot about the human impact on nature and biodiversity. This article explains how human activity has impacted the...

"Interactive map of the Gulag" is a visual representation of the history of the Soviet camp system, which was included in the world history under the name "GULAG". 

"An Atlas of Space" is a collection of ten maps designed in Python using open data from NASA and the USGS. The designs include a map of 18000 asteroids in the solar system, topographic maps of each...

Shenzhen, known as China's booming silicon valley today, used to be a small fish town 40 years ago. Today, it ranks as one of the top mega-cities in China and a leading example of urbanization in...

An interactive map to understand when New Year starts around the World, published on Il Sole 24 Ore http://www.infodata.ilsole24ore.com/2017/12/31/2018-entra-primo-nel-anno-ultimo/

What happens when the maps that millions of Americans rely on to make informed decisions about flood risk are rife with inaccuracies? "Outdated and Unreliable: FEMA's Faulty Flood Maps Put...

Visualization of bike sharing trips for a given time window of a business day to create a snapshot of commuting patterns. Selecting different periods of a day these patterns can be compared to...

This is an infographic on India's wildlife sanctuaries and parks, and covers 1> Number of sanctuaries and parks 2> Zone-wise, state-wise and area 3> year of their establishment

This is an Analysis of Lighting in Mit design Campus

Treepedia measures the canopy cover in cities. Rather than count the individual number of trees, we’ve developed a scaleable and universally applicable method by analyzing the amount of green...

We can learn a lot about a city and the everyday life of its inhabitants by looking at its mobility: spatial patterns show its zonification, modal distribution talks about socioeconomic...

Water doesn’t respect borders. Globally, 263 lakes and rivers are shared between at least two countries, according to the United Nations. Of the 195 states in the world, 145 have at least one of...

Climate justice means being fair to all, especially when dealing with climate change. The world is getting hotter, causing illness, destructive weather events, and financial difficulties. The...