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...

With some occupations, people make more annual income than others, but we typically see figures in terms of means and medians when in reality, the difference between the person who makes the...

Diagrams of daily wind and temperatures during one year for the most populated city in each state. Colorful diagrams display five daily measurements for an full year in each city: wind direction,...

The project is a work of visualization illustrating the living cost of normal residents in Shanghai. We calculated the average price of housing within 1km away from each metro station by collecting...

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...

By tallying who appears most often on playlists titled with the word “punk," we can learn how parts of culture perceive genres and the bands who represent them.

Clayton Kershaw was one of the best pitchers in baseball in the first half of the season. We analyzed more than 1,600 pitches to illustrate his tendencies. We also allow readers to explore the...

The artwork shows the songs present in the charts in Italy, year by year, from 1947 to 2013; and the twenty most common words, decade by decade, recurring in the same songs. Specifically, from the...

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...

Issues that go unmeasured often remain unresolved. Understanding children's current situation and their problems is vital when dealing with future problems in our society, which is why we need to...

An interactive representation of the relationships in Syria as they stand today.

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

This simulation uses a set of assumptions based on the results of the Republican primary up to April 2016.

Roughly 2.2 million people are locked up in prison or jail; 7 million are under correctional control, which includes parole and probation; and more than $80 billion is spent on corrections...

A year after Donald Trump launched his presidential bid, and against all expectations, the business mogul is the presumptive GOP nominee. Who supported him? How did he take over a Republican...

Economist and data visualization and presentation skills specialist Jon Schwabish talks about data visualization, presentation skills, presentation design, open data, and technology.

An interactive analysis revealing how the Star Wars trailers frequently repeat scenes while parsing out bits of new material to generate attention.

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?

cf. city flows is a comparative visualization of urban bike mobility designed to help citizens casually analyze bike-sharing systems in the context of a public exhibition space. Three...

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,...

The majority of Americans state that they trust data and are persuaded by claims supported by it. Yet, only one-third of the public is data literate. This creates a gap between the individuals...

With the ‘Cymascope,’ sound can be transformed into an image to visualise the sound of birds like the forest, developing a method for translating the frequency of bird calls into...

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...

This map uses open source data, curated by the Carter Center and integrated and analyzed in Palantir, to show how the conflict in Syria has evolved over time.

If there is anything in the world that warrants attention it’s education. How can one really analyze how far has education come if not from a vantage point? Astronomy has long been a human reminder...

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...

The woodpecker facts and systems to protect his head against the hits when this bird drills the wood. Fun project to my site mhinfographics published in Spanish also in visual744.

To mark the completion of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, ‘The Pursuit of Faster’ data visualisation project explores the evolution of medal winning performances across all Olympic Games since...

  How many movies are actually about men? What changes by genre, era, or box-office revenue? What circumstances generate more diversity?

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...