I overlayed 5 different time periods of humans to see how each related to animals, assuming the pregnancy length did not change (there was no data on pregnancies from Pre-1900s).

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

For pet lovers, life without furry friends in just not an option - even when there’s a garden to consider. Not to worry! Just follow these easy pet-proofing steps to keep your pet safe when...

Risk assessment tools -- tests that are supposed to measure a prisoners risk of recidivism -- are coming into increasing use. These tools can reduce the size of prison populations and avoid...

Robin Partington & Partners (RPP) are a London architecture studio. Our Intranet is award winning, including a 2015 Kantar prize. We have gone a step further by designing an interactive...

Sonnet Signatures visualizes each of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets by charting the letters used within each one. The signatures are not meant to assign meaning but to inspire others to think about...

Exploring the punctuation in literary classics

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...

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...

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

Since the 1990s, there have been a number of public health interventions to encourage people to quit smoking This combined with a constant increase in the price of a packet of cigarettes has seen a...

Choosing a university is an issue that every Russian family finds itself facing at some point. This analysis of the higher education landscape over the past few years might be helpful in making...

Jeff Bezos is now in the 5th spot on world’s wealthiest people list. But he was born poor. He wanted to start a business right after college but didn’t. So how did he start?

A visualisation of the countries who have won medals in the modern summer Olympics

The artwork shows the satellites launched from 2003 to 2015. It represents the type of institutions that were focused on projects and the nation that financed them. On the left it is shown the...

As of today, 59 women have been to space. In honor of International Women’s Day, I used the upcoming Mapbox Studio dataset editor and Mapbox GL JS to visualize where each astronaut is from and more...

Eye of the Stormers is a collaborative project between Bastille and Spotify, as a companion piece to their new album, Wild World. The more times a city streams Bastille's music on Spotify, the...

Last year almost 4 million babies are born in the US. Although thinking of 4 million unique names is pretty difficult, theoretically it is not impossible. Nonetheless, there are always many...

Optikammer is a playable infographic about optical innovations and the pioneers of animation, cinema, video games and cat gifs. Antique toys and early experiments are made interactive inside a...

Explainer motion graphic outlining information behind the death penalty

As climate change alters 
habitats and disrupts ecosystems, where will
 animals move to survive?
 And will human development prevent them from getting there? This map shows the average...

One passionate entomologist poetically describes and ranks over 70 species' painful stings.

I can't read music but I can parse it. The talent of reading music has always escaped me which is a little ironic considering I grew up in a musical family. However, I've always enjoyed how sheet...

In this piece we highlight long-held critiques of maps as truthful depictions of the world.    We place our trust in maps as truthful representations: as tools to guide us from A to B. But...

Alberto Cairo's weblog on visualization, infographics and data journalism

On July 21, 2016, Donald Trump gave his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination at the RNC. Since the beginning of the primary season, Trump has been accused by pundits of...

At the world's largest classical music festival, the work of female composers will comprise only 4 per cent of the programme. But as this data visualisation shows, female composers often featured...

Think Game of Thrones is complicated? Try the royal houses of Europe! Starting with Charlemagne, this poster includes the monarchs of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Spain, France, the...

Elementary school: The folded leaflet shows the educational pathways of pupils between kindergarten and secondary school level II between 2001 and 2014. A distinction is drawn between different...

On the 10 of January the great musician David Bowie died. Several web portals published the lists of the critics favorite songs. So 3 very different in many ways (political views, social aspects...