In Iran, at least 28 prisoners held on politically motivated charges have died in state custody due to beatings, denial of medical care or gross negligence on the part of state authorities since...

Since Iran’s Constitutional Revolution in 1905 and the birth of modern media in the country, successive Iranian governments have intimidated, imprisoned, tortured and killed journalists and...

An exploration of the 139 thousand artworks in the catalogued collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Four areas are included in the data analysis: Dimensions, Department, Gender and Nationality.

The NDA sent us the research data in a large Excel spreadsheet with a dozen tabs for different products. In addition, we received the survey results of the target group — another 15 pages of...

Journalist dying on the job in different countries is a tragedy recently marked by Shireen. I wanted to highlight every life lost on the job and by country, giving a voice to those who have always...

“The Essence of Us” is a subtly moving data art piece that asks, “What defines Human Culture?” through the lens of the 5000+ exoplanets discovered since the first in 1992. Data about the exoplanets...

More than 70 years have passed since India gained independence from colonial rule, and many Indians believe that their country has successfully achieved one of its post-independence ideals: a...

Humankind has been launching satellites and rockets into space for 60 years, filling Earth’s orbit with masses of debris with China’s expanding space programme a major contribution to the issue. An...

This project, entitled "Visualization of climate data for the web", was developed as part of a master’s dissertation by the University of Coimbra. The Climate Change is a current issue and, with...

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

Prince was much more than a prolific musician. Besides giving rise to the "Minneapolis Sound," he also had an exceptional eye for spotting talent. He created numerous musical groups and wrote hit...

The ABDI (Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development) and FGV (The Latin American Think Tank) conducted a series of studies to subsidize the elaboration of public policies and governmental...

Aircraft is one of the common transportation methods in modern society. Similar to the ground vehicles, aircraft is also subject to various rules of air traffic control, which is the regulation for...

Interactive chart with drilldown capability to view contributing factors by cuisine type.

This all started with a particularly sexy fairy. Our book club was reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable plot, we found a 35-page interlude...

According the UN’s Comtrade database, the global market for imported goods totaled $15.6 trillion in 2015. This map shows where those goods came from and where they went, each dot representing $1...

A web interactive Stop Motion animation of 1380 handmade vector illustrations about the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, containing explanations, original dialogues, interesting facts, doubts and...

On May 2, 2018, Enrique Ochoa Reza left the presidency of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, one of the ones with the poorest trajectory of the last 20 presidents of the PRI. This visualization...

The Colours of TinTin is an abstract representation of the 24 book covers of the 'Adventures of TinTin' and homage to 'Ligne Claire', a style of drawing pioneered by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi...

China formally announced the opening of its first overseas military base on August 1, 2017, the 90th birthday of the People’s Liberation Army, a day charged with symbolic meaning for Beijing. This...

Mirador is a tool for visual exploration of complex datasets. It enables users to discover correlation patterns and derive new hypotheses from the data.

I squirt some water into my mouth. It's vaguely lemon-lime. As I go to return the water bottle to its cage on my bike, it slips out of my hand, hitting the pavement and bouncing into the bushes....

COVID Gowns is an interactive online visualization of Canadian COVID-19 cases. A common horizontal timeline or horizontal bar chart is limited by how much data can be included because the data will...

'The Beginning and the End' compares the completely abstract notions of the creation of the world, written in Genesis, and the apocalypse, written in Revelation. Each piece of visual data...

Stolen Memory (Memoria Robada) is a multimedia, data-driven investigation about the cultural heritage trafficking in the country. This investigation was part of a transnational project in five...

Due to its popularity and to its policy that allows anyone to edit pages, Wikipedia often becomes a battlefield, where different factions try to impose their view on controversial topics...

An information graphic designed to tell the story of the Internet. This 28x72in banner titled, “The Internet: A Population” focuses on the number of people across the world who are connected to the...

Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, 29 spaceports around the world have been used to launch satellites to orbit. This interactive map and timeline shows the cumulative launches from each...

This project uses an interactive 3D globe with over 1,000 relatively evenly distributed points over Earth's landmasses to tell the story of climate change. You can animate each point's temperature...

Statistical fallacies are common tricks data can play on you, which lead to mistakes in data interpretation and analysis. Explore some common fallacies, with real-life examples, and find out how...