Artwork for BBC Focus Magazine , Graphic Science Section , covering all the missions intended to reach Mars Source: Nasa

“Roads to Rome” is a data visualization project exploring one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility: Do all roads really lead to Rome? The project resides somewhere between data...

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...

After Novak Djoković , the best-known portrait of the Western Balkans unfortunately remains mass unemployment. Especially among young people.

Over the past 40 years, we have changed from a world in which underweight prevalence was more than double that of obesity, to one in which more people are obese than underweight

32 Questions for DeRay Mckesson was commissioned by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art as part of Now, my retrospective exhibition touring the United States.

The clock cycles through the color wheel every 12 hours using only colors I like. The clock also changes brightness every hour so that the half-hour mark is the brightest and the hour-mark is the...

A look at the history of Batman & Superman in the context of the changes in American culture, politics and economics over the last century. The aim was to try and understand how these...

Galileo's Impact On Modern Science According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called...

A series of graphics accompanied this article on Flint's water crisis. These graphics took pains to convey the statistical sampling that was being used to test Flint's water, and how seemingly...

This visualisation shows the relative deprivation of 109 cities and towns in England. The diagram has been produced by collating the ‘English Indices of Deprivation’ and the ‘Major town and city...

How to read this chart: Each line chart shows the rate of change since 2009 of tuition and fees in US states (counting public in-state four year institutions). Red shows values higher than the...

To capture the toll of terror, the Los Angeles Times tracked every fatal act of terrorism around the world in April. By the end of the month, terror had struck 180 times and killed 858. The project...

More than any other storm since Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy was a rude wake-up call that the effects of Climate Change to coastal communities. Some of the most iconic images of destruction...

Colour trends in Instagram’s early-adopter photographer community.

There are many of us—errr, people—who build stuff with Legos at all ages. Having grown up with loads of hand-me-down Legos (and having a Lego Wall-E on my desk right now), I started to wonder how...

What are investors looking for in companies and founders? The data looks at 890 U.S. startups that were founded from 2009-2015 and received at least $20 million in VC and other equity funding.

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...

Nearly a century after the discovery of penicillin, bacterial infections are still killing about 700,000 people each year. This interactive series helps explain why.

Sharks range in size from the largest fish on the planet to the length of your palm. See how you compare to some of these vulnerable predators that are so crucial to the ocean's health.

The artwork shows past and future missions to the moon with featuring for each respective authorities, sponsor nations and type of mission.

A 366 days project about the ever changing colors of the sky over Berlin. Capturing a moment in time and space every day over the course of one year – 2016. This artistic and abstract project is...

In celebration of the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games this month, Visa looks back look back at major historical and cultural milestones in the Olympic and Paralympic Games since 1986.

Behind the sensational success of "Hamilton" are some of the most densely packed, complex rhyming lyrics in the history of musicals. How exactly do they work?

From 'vehemently oppose' to 'all in': explore the universe of positions on Donald Trump. See which politicians have been sucked into orbit by the gas giant and which ones are resisting the pull.

War and Peace — a vast novel with many characters and events, historical facts and locations. We visualized relations between the characters and how these evolve, movements of the characters on the...

Monitoring poverty and well-being in NYC in this interactive for the Columbia Population Research Center.

This visualisation graph below shows the running schedule for 1030 runners who are logging their data with Discovery Vitality in South Africa and have done at least one run over 80 km. Each row...

Infographics are everywhere, but what made them so successful? This infographic exposes the science behind the boom.

This is a map showing over five years of drought data (285 weeks, combined into a single view) in the United States. The dots are proportionally sized by the amount of time over the past five...