Do you remember playing with the coins of your parents and the journeys they spoke of? Now you have the chance to do the same thing again, but this time with a lot more coins belonging to one of...
I designed this infographic after being inspired by a post on the Economist's website. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) created a –Where To Be Born Index' in 1988 and now again in 2013. The...
An interactive network map about the main political ideologies and their related economic and social doctrines.
Each ideology is linked to some specific octrines about economy, socaility, work and...
Biota Beats is a microbial record player - converting the rich information of the human microbiome into sounds and visuals. Biota Beats explores the interface between art and science: through music...
I took the gps positions of vehicles from a small route here in Toronto and graphed them as dots progressing around a circle instead of dots on a map. Then I change the radius of the circle to...
This project aimed to visualise the key elements of the global sport of Formula 1. It focuses on the drivers and cars in F1's 67 year history with attention also given to the ever-changing engines,...
Subjective visualization about growth and developpement of the (at this time) most populated country in the world.
From far away, as appealing as a visual poster.
But Closer, subtile visualised...
The periodic table of northern tea is an homage to my mother's dinner-time combinations from my youth. Many an evening was spent with her reeling off what at the time seemed like endless...
Space debris poses a threat to both satellites and future space missions. The littering of space with defunct satellites and old rockets has accelerated dramatically these last years, mainly due to...
The museums, monuments and archeological areas, both free and paid, that were most visited in each region of Italy in 2017.
Artwork was published on La Lettura, the cultural supplement of...
In February we released a project Our World in Data had been working on: SDG-Tracker.org, the first (and only, to date) resource where you can track our progress towards the United Nations...
The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1901. How strongly are women represented? Who were the youngest and oldest winners? And where is the best place to do research? A data analysis with creative...
In the lead-up to the much-anticipated release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we set out to log and chart every scene from every Star Wars movie. Yes, we even suffered through the prequels.
We...
A handmade data object designed by three members of Starschema’s Data Visualization team; created purely for experimentation and outside work hours. The project was originally submitted to the Dear...
An animated data-driven documentary about climate change and public trust in science, Degrees of Uncertainty takes an inquisitive look at the complex relationship between certainty and scientific...
A data visualization that presents the global distribution, across continents and countries, of minerals using the periodic table of elements.
There is strong competition among producing...
I had a 5-month-old baby when my husband broke his arm. Suddenly he couldn’t pick up our son, rock him to sleep or even change a dirty nappy. Let’s say that I was pretty motivated to help him heal...
As the amount of personal data held by governments and companies continues to grow, the personal and systemic cost of not securing this information properly also mounts. ABC News Story Lab...
This interactive visualization uses publicly available data on smartphone user behavior. The visualization allows you to observe smartphone penetration throughout the globe, pick a gender, then...
This all started with a particularly sexy fairy. Our book club was reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable plot, we found a 35-page interlude...
Imagine yourself at an art gallery viewing the Mona Lisa. What it looks like through your eyes may be completely different through the eyes of the person standing next to you. My visualization...
We give far too much credence to individual statistics on social and economic well-being. Take the poverty rate. That statistic tells us the share of the population below a specific income...
China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative will cost $4-8 trillion, affecting 62% of the world's population. See all about the megaproject in this graphic.
Normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit right? Not so. There is no baseline for humans and even if there was, it would be closer to 97.7 °F. This visual shows how temperature fluctuates...
Does size matter? I built a data visualization that focuses on small countries. The visualization shows the six World Governance Indicators, the ranking on the Human Development Index, the number...
This visualization explores famous myths and legends from across the British Isles, tracking their origins back to towns and cities and ranking the mythical creatures based on their characteristics.
The friendship of an American Girl Doll is a rite of passage for many young women.
This visualization combines American Girl dolls (represented by Blue bars) with girls born in the US with the...
How do you visualise musical tastes across the world? That was the challenge we faced working on an article analysing five years of music streamed on Spotify.
This project looks at the decline...
No sitting American president traveled outside the country before Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Panama in 1906 to see the construction of the Panama Canal. A century later Air Force One regularly...