How much money exists in the world? Strangely enough, there are multiple answers to this question, and the amount of money that exists changes depending on how we define it. The more abstract...

Topics and places the world is reporting on right now. Explore what shapes our different perspectives.

A record number of women now use contraception. The latest figures from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs show 64% of married and cohabiting women used modern or traditional...

This was a semester long project that was created during my studies at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW in Basel, Switzerland. This project shows the impacts trough deforestation. From the...

Progress and Challenges with Achieving Universal Immunization Coverage: 2015 Estimates of Immunization Coverage. A report for the World Health Organization with data visualization from Stamen.

Lord of the Rings character word count in Chord(ish) diagram form.

During the Climate Conference we published 3 visualizations on the impact of human CO2 emissions. A simulation in which the ‘bubble rate’ reflects the actual CO2 emission rate makes the different...

A look at the capital punishment in the state of Texas US.

Commissioned by Future Earth Media Lab and Global Carbon Project to produce an infographic for presentation purposes as well as for highlighting the budget report on social media outlets. The idea...

Politicians like to say, 'I worked my way through college' to prove their work ethic. But four decades ago, a year of tuition could be worked off in a summer. Compared with today's kids, they had...

At Avodato we have been collecting data about how the Internet is interconnected during the last months to do some basic data exploration and create some basic visualizations about how the internet...

There’s heavy competition in the fintech space and no shortage of moving parts. However, this infographic helps to put most things in perspective.

Intersections of major roads have been given nicknames like “mixing bowl,” “spaghetti junction,” and “knot”—invoking images of tangled messes, but there's beauty in the chaos. Applying colors...

Visual representation of the most dangerous urban intersections in America.

Interactive neural network widget visualises outcomes of machine learning according to different parameters.

How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week,...

A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names.

Using the form of infographic design to visualize the abstract concept of memory, this picture explains how memory is transmitted between neurons where synapse plays an important role and shows the...

Comments allow readers to respond to an article instantly, asking questions, pointing out errors, giving new leads. At their best, comment threads are thoughtful, enlightening, funny: online...

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From Afghan training camps to the Islamic State - this is the comprehensive map for 37 years of terror acts performed by various Islamist groups around the world. We track the story and roots of...

"Pluto comes into focus" was a creative, interactive story that aimed to showcase scientific discovery at the edges of our solar system in real time. Until very recently the best images we had...

The Subspotting project captured the cell phone reception for the 4 major carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) along the 660 miles of the New York City Subway. Subspotting is the first...

NarcoData is a summary of 40 years of organized crime in Mexico. Organized crime in our country has overwhelming proportions that concerns itself not only with an expanding drug market, but has...

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 –...

In July 2016, the BBC asked 177 film critics from 36 countries around the world to list their 10 favourite films of the century so far. Here are the top 100* films by critical consensus, analysed...

The chart on the left shows the population of each nation in 2012; on the right are the number of murders committed in each nation from 2000 to 2012, in decreasing order, year on year. The lack of...

Wage Islands is an interactive installation about wage and housing inequality in NYC. It's a 3d topographic map of monthly housing costs submerged in water to show where New Yorkers can afford...

At the BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), I've made dozens of infographics / data visualisations to present data from investigations, educational resources and research articles. Our main...

In almost every urban area on every continent around the world, pigeons solemnly blend into the cityscape aesthetic. Usurping sidewalks and parks in their massive unflattering flocks, pigeons are...