India is a developing country with a little over 64 percent of the population living in rural areas. However, even after 75 years of independence, the public healthcare infrastructure serving these...

These animated virus trading cards show the real 3D structure of viruses. Using scientifically accurate structure data from the Worldwide Protein Databank, each trading card reveals the viral...

Many diseases hold cyclical patterns as a result of climate changes throughout a year. Influenza, or 'the flu', causes the most illnesses in the colder, winter months. However, an outbreak of swine...

Discover the popularity of some of the world’s favourite foods - from global classics to local favourites - as tagged on Instagram. Use the interactive map to discover Instagram’s capital of curry,...

“I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of drones, by both U.S. military and by commercial interests, into U.S. airspace, with a specific mandate to engage in...

Google Trends data allows us to see what people are searching for at a very local level. This visualization tracks the top searches for common health issues in the United States, from Cancer to...

The Itaewon district in South Korea’s capital is known to revelers as a place of fun, freedom and openness. But its narrow, steep streets and tight access points proved a lethal mix for Halloween...

Along with innovative scientific discoveries, the way in which these are depicted also requires a development in line with the times. Overgrown Tree - Evolution of Evolutionary Thinking is an...

Algorithms are an increasing part of our everyday lives. They are constantly making decisions about us, yet they rarely explain their reasoning. In this story, opaqueness is used as a...

Delve into 20 years’ worth of UK export and import data to discover some surprising stories about the UK’s trade relations with the rest of the world.

When presenting something new, there’s usually no way past a PowerPoint-packed workshop. Deutsche Post DHL Group has taken a more innovative tack to market its sustainability-building DHL...

After five editions of consistently high-quality publications, the American Cancer Society and Vital Strategies sought to create a more readable and engaging experience for users perusing the...

The second part of “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning” series, this installment describes a tradeoff fundamental to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Using scroll-linked...

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

Data sketches is a ±yearlong collaboration in 12 instalments. On average taking a month per project, Nadieh & Shirley create an extensive data visualization of a different topic and write about...

Respondents to polls say they expect their lives to improve with time. In general, they do not.

Since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs a year ago, Philippine police have taken hundreds of dead bodies to hospital. Why?

I created a series about some of the major impacts of global warming that I witnessed in Washington State this summer, using scientific data to show how the drought is devastating the...

Scalable Insets is a new technique for interactively exploring and navigating large numbers of annotated patterns or features in multiscale visualizations such as gigapixel images, matrices, or...

This project visualizes city street network orientation, configuration, and entropy using OpenStreetMap data and the Python-based OSMnx package. Each of these cities is represented by a polar...

This infographic compares the cost of living to purchase power in each state. There are countries, like India, where prices are low and purchasing power is well above average. One explanation here...

I spent a lot of time inside in 2020. A lot of people did. But when I started tallying up just how much time, I realized I was on track to spend almost half the year indoors. A bit shocked, a bit...

Coastal cities need billions of dollars to build defenses against sea level rise. Tensions are growing over where that funding will come from: taxpayers or private companies with waterfront...

The drug trade is moving from the street to online cryptomarkets. Forced to compete on price and quality, sellers are upping their game.

Whether Pope, Merkel, Trump or the DiCaprio, they are all talking to us. But how exactly do they do this? "To the point(s)" is a rhetorical analysis tool revealing the speech strategies of today’s...

Silicon-based civilization is already integrated into people's lives. Carbon-based civilization is the culture formed by organisms, while silicon-based civilization is driven mainly by data, which...

One of a series of posters for the World Energy Council depicting 'Humanising Energy', looking at the evolution of energy (how we use it, the ecological responsibilities) from 1920 to the present.

This series of wall charts are created to interpret the Tibetan Kalachakra mandala painting, which are parallel to visualized tables. The innovative method employs the concept of the five elements...

The Consumer Barometer is a global research project Google commenced several years ago, to provide insight into how consumers use online and offline media in their purchase process. Our main goal...

North Korea is never far from the media spotlight, as the rogue state’s nuclear weapons programme gathers momentum and its war of words with the United States threatens to spiral out of...