Contrapedal was the first project of the "Datalab" of X-DATA, a Mexican data analytics and visualization company. Miguel Zúñiga, information designer and creator of Contrapedal, mixed his two...

This map visualizes the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the solar system. This includes everything we know of that’s over 10km in diameter - about 10000 asteroids - as well as 8000...

As the first mathematical monograph in ancient China, Jiuzhang Suanshu is the most important part of the ten books of Suanjing, and also the symbol of the formation of a complete system of ancient...

Infographics are commonly mistaken as a modern invention, but they’ve actually been used to captivate and educate minds throughout history. This motion video reviews the past and present status of...

Cloisonné a kind of Chinese handicrafts, with history over 600 years. Cloisonné is an important variety of metal crafts in China. This information design is about the process of making cloisonné.

I created this app to better understand the phonomenon of "Bird Strike" or more widely, "Wildlife Strikes"; that is, interactions between aircraft and wildlife which are often fatal for the animals...

Does your name affect your destiny? By signalling your class, gender or ethnicity, does it make certain careers out of reach? We looked at the most popular first names in a range of professions and...

This work draws on data from an Oxford University study, ‘The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation’, which categorises U.S. occupations according to their...

MAJOR SPOILER ALERT for every single one of Agatha Christie's 58 murder mystery novels. The man did it, the young person did it, the family member did it. They did it with poison and they did it...

The project gives a new perspective on the world and the »Democracy Index« by The Economist. Usually, we compare countries on a map. This is reasonable as their geographical position and shape is...

I discovered a new Korean snack spot in Toronto called Chungchun Rice Hotdog. The rice hotdogs are made of a chewy rice flour batter that’s deep fried with a hotdog in the middle. During my first...

To wrap up our coverage of the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio we have one final chart to share that compares the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the top 30 countries on the 2016 Paralympic Games...

The German Digital Library provides access to a continuously growing collection that is part of the digital cultural heritage of German cultural and academic institutions. This project attempts to...

CONTEXT In 2020, the pandemic brought the world to a complete standstill. Our reality was limited to the 4 or 5 walls of our house. Our homes became our whole world. On the other hand, media...

How many guests are travelling, checking in or staying at AirBnB accommodations today? Explore today's activity by navigating around an interactive globe.

COMMIT is a data visualization and sonification work created by Ren Yuan. By getting the commit history of more than 400 developers on the Processing, p5.js, Processing.py and Processing for...

Brazil’s president must decide whether to renew the operating license of the Amazon’s biggest and most catastrophic hydroelectric plant. His choice will determine the Workers’ Party’s legacy in the...

Vi(c)e organique offers a pathway for discovering the informal networks of influence that developed, starting in 2013, from consultations aimed at defining European environmental objectives for...

An attempt to visualize the entire dataset, whilst puling out the story about Salmonella and using a second dataset to investigate the time dimension.

As anyone who has recently taken a road trip can attest, there are a lot of places in the United States with very distinctive names. Many of us at Fathom are fascinated by geography and the subtle...

Professor Alison Siegler, and her team at the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic of the University of Chicago conducted an extensive examination of federal pretrial detention. What they found when...

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

This project is an experimental generous interface to three editions of Guillame-Thomas Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes. It visualises changes, additions and deletions in the text at multiple...

A visual enquiry into the rape epidemic in India and the systematic dysfunction of the Indian justice system.

Data Soap is a personal documentary project presenting individuals’ household water stories with data and emotion. It allows the audience to glimpse people’s lives. The data is transformed into an...

How does it feel to not hear? According to Xu Kaifeng, a person with near-total deafness, living in a world without sound feels like you don't exist at all. For those with healthy ears, it's hard...

The project attempts to understand the water consumption in the Design hostels. The data was collected with the help of the warden of the hostels and the plumbers who maintain the same. The...

This is an infographic about solid waste management, revealing the risk we are facing. The infographic totally includes world map about waste generating, main types of waste generated, regional...

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...

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....