Rewarding excellence in narrative visualisation and information design.

Spotlights

The most definitive account yet at what went wrong, why it went wrong, and how Liverpool supporters were instantly blamed on the night

Tom Vaillant

How the Champions League final descended into chaos – visual investigation

Most of us hunch over our smartphone for at least two hours a day. This can effectively increase the weight of your head by up to 27kg, damage your posture, and if you text while walking, expose you to all kinds of accidents

Pablo Robles

Why your smartphone is causing you ‘text neck’ syndrome

Forget about carbon emissions and carbon neutrality – if permafrost continues to melt at current rates, it could be game over for humanity

What is permafrost and why might it be the climate change time bomb?

Imagine your hometown never changed. That no one ever grew old or moved on. Part book, part film, part family photo album, Welcome to Pine Point unearths a place frozen in time and discovers what happens when an entire community is erased from the map.

NFB - Welcome to Pine Point

Wenn die Pharmabranche ein Universum wäre, sähe es so aus.

Adina Renner

Das Pharma-Universum | The Pharma-Universe

Using laser scanners and drones, a team of volunteers travelled across Ukraine documenting the destruction of cultural sites. This is the data they collected.

These 3D models take you inside the ruins of Ukraine's cultural treasures

This season marks the 50th anniversary Title IX, so Google Trends took a look at how search interest in the WNBA has grown and who has paved the way.

The Trailblazers, The Risk Takers, The Ceiling Breakers, The Firsts

Since 1985, the International Center of Photography has recognized outstanding achievements in photography with its prestigious Infinity Awards.

ICP Infinity Awards

Western science fiction often depicts our collective culture in restrictive, erroneous ways. How about we let Asian sci-fi speak for itself?

Pei Ying Loh

What’s the state of Southeast Asian sci-fi?

First chapter of “The China Ship” the story of the first globalization that connected Europe, the Americas and China through trade

The China Ship

Florida’s Volusia County is racing to treat addiction while battling a wave of overdoses caused by tainted street drugs

Ilia Blinderman

Hidden Fentanyl Is Driving a Fatal New Phase in US Opioid Epidemic

The turn-of-the-century literary canon, using data from college syllabi

What literature do we study from the 1990s?

Project Multatuli has created an interactive data story to help the public peel back the many layers of the coal oligarchy—the small group of men who control the dirty energy source—in Indonesia. The story is presented in the form of a game, in which players must answer questions about the businesses and networks of the [...]Read More...

Public

Exposing Indonesia's Coal Oligarchs

A healthy life for all people up into old age is a sign for high level of well-being in a country

Healthy throughout life

Extensive polling commissioned by the Tony Blair Institute that reveals the pragmatism, priorities and changing values of the people of the New Middle East

The Changing Face of the New Middle East

Pennsylvania abortion clinics are accommodating an influx of thousands of out-of-state patients denied abortion at home

Jasen Lo

The impact of other states’ abortion bans ripples across Pennsylvania

Data shows how the construction of dams impacts the river’s ecosystem and those those living on its banks

How dams starve the Mekong River Delta of vital sediment

Thirty years after a death squad massacred civilians in Bosnia, none of the infamous Arkan’s Tigers have stood trial for their alleged part in those crimes.

The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone

Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.Explore the 3D world of Asteroids, Comets and NEOs. Learn about past and future missions, tracking and predicting orbits, and close approaches to Earth.

Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL

How are countries going digital? The OECD’s Toolkit helps measure, compare and find policy solutions.

OECD Going Digital Toolkit

A visualization of the rainbow flag to portray to what extent different dimensions of queer life are disregarded by state regulations.

Flags of Inequality

Understanding the Endurance of Opioids &
Combatting the Modern American Epidemic

In Crisis

Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon

The Threatened Tribe

Visualizing the 2021 Formula One Racing Season

Thunder Roads

An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.

The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature

Die Auslastung ihrer Windparks hüten die Betreiber wie ein Staatsgeheimnis. Die NZZ hat sie nun selbst berechnet. Die Ergebnisse sind ernüchternd.

Windkraft in Deutschland: So schlecht sind Windräder ausgelastet

My Little Storybook 🪶 is a Lusion Monthly Experiment. It is a story of a bird family crossing the river.

My Little Storybook

The world population just hit a record. Here's where you fit in and how the world's demographics are expected to change. 

You’re one in 8 billion

The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble and the consequences could be dire.

Insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate

Non-commercial project (part of the GreatArmenia personal project) about Armenian Genocide.

The Armenian Genocide — The Armenian Genocide

Uncover a city with over 200 pyramids. This is Meroë, the ancient capital of the Kushite Kingdom, in Sudan’s Nile Valley.

Pyramids of Meroë

A visual explainer on why we need a tracing app, how it would work and the risks it entails

Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing

Le storie, i numeri, le vittime: il bilancio di EMERGENCY, 20 anni dopo.

Afghanistan20 | Vent'anni di guerra

How informal street vendors define the sonic landscape of Mexico’s capital

The Sounds of CDMX

Black Panther marked a turning point for diversity in the MCU. For 10 years prior to that film, every movie in the MCU was led by a white man. After Black Panther, 11 out of 16 projects were led by a person of color and/or a woman.

Black Panther: It took a decade for MCU to address diversity

Visualization of my Book Collection using Sunlight

Gabrielle Merite

Kirti Vardhan Rathore - Lumos Maxima

A link between history and innovation, the Longines Spirit Zulu Time, an exceptional timepiece to be used by all modern pioneers 

Longines Spirit Zulu Time

Cyber disruptions. Military encounters. Geopolitical instability. Economic sanctions. Even the risk of nuclear annihilation. How did we get here? Today the increasingly fraught U.S.-Russia relationship has entered a dangerous era of confrontation. Tapping a distinguished roster of policymakers, experts, and scholars, U.S.-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability presents a deep dive into the historic complexities and current conundrums of one of the world’s most important bilateral relationships.Philanthropic funding provided byCarnegie Corporation of New York

U.S.-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability

These are the untold stories of the Cronulla riots. Go beyond the media headlines with SBS's interactive experience: watch the documentary, explore the themes and delve deeper into the riots.

Cronulla Riots: The Day that Shocked the Nation

An experiment to trace the emotional waves of a pandemic. A story using data. Told through tweets. Assembled by AI. Explore, and discover the story that matters to you.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

See how the press would cover you if you went missing. Calculate your coverage, and join the fight for equality.

AreYouPressworthy.com

The Haircut

An Explorable Explainer of K-Means Clustering

K-Means Clustering: An Explorable Explainer

Seven Days is an ongoing project where I gather volunteers’ unique stories as data-sets and explore new ways of visualizing them through drawing. I work with participants to examine how art might overcome the limitations of language to adequately tell our stories. I aim to build intimacy in times of both physical and psychological isolation by fleshing out the personal nature of information.

Seven Days

Degrees of Uncertainty is an animated data-driven documentary about climate science, uncertainty, and knowing when to trust the experts. Support Neil's upcom...

How Sure Are Climate Scientists, Really?

Pourquoi y a-t-il sans cesse de nouveaux variants? Et pourquoi on risque de nouvelles flambées épidémiques? Plongez au cœur du SARS-CoV-2 et découvrez le rôle étonnant de la protéine spike.

Comprendre les futures mutations du Covid-19

We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.

How Artists Get Paid From Streaming

Coronavirus Data from the UK made into music - using data sonification, it's easier to understand the rate and amount of cases and how they changed over 2020.

Covid-19 in the UK – sonified

‘The Boat’, an interactive graphic novel about escape after the Vietnam War. Based on the story by Nam Le, adapted by Matt Huynh.

The Boat | SBS

Official website of Maria Callas: soprano, opera legend, ‘La Divina’. Diva of La Scala, celebrated as La traviata, Tosca, Norma, Lucia di Lammermoor, Medea.

Maria Callas - Official Website

Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world.

River Runner Global

Uncovering Myanmar’s Rare Earth

Witness accounts and call transcripts show crowd crush was hours in the making, leaving police facing questions over response.

How Halloween revelry turned to disaster in South Korea

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has targeted locations and objects of cultural importance. Explore the defense of the nation’s culture and history through maps, photographs, and audio interviews.

Inside the Grassroots Effort to Save Ukraine’s Culture

Climate Change and the Future Of the Wine Industry

 Ripe for Disruption

Scientists increasingly agree on how much warming the planet will experience. This is what it might look like.  

The New World: Envisioning Life After Climate Change

Das Falter Inferno. Wer wagt einen Blick in den Spiegel, die Hölle unserer Zeit?

Falter's Inferno

In Rampvlucht, een digitale reconstructie speur je in een 3D-ervaring mee naar de verzwegen geheimen rondom een van de meest controversiële vliegrampen van de twintigste eeuw.

Rampvlucht

Kaputte Satelliten und Raketen, Trümmer aus Kollisionen und Angriffen: Eine Wolke aus Schrott kreist um die Erde. Eine Gefahr für die Raumfahrt – und unsere Zivilisation

Unser Müll im All

Climate change is the problem of our time, it’s everyone’s problem, and most of our problem-solvers are assuming that someone else will solve it.

What can a technologist do about climate change?

How to be perfectly unhappy

Exploring the relationship between climate change and violent conflicts.

Climate & Conflict

Discriminator is an interactive documentary exploring facial recognition databases. In 2006, director Brett Gaylor uploaded a photo of himself on his honeymoon to...

Discriminator — Imposter Media

Am Kongress der Kommunistischen Partei werden die Weichen für Chinas Zukunft gestellt – eine visuelle Erklärung

China: So funktioniert der 20. Parteitag der KP

The dominant causes of death for children around the world, in a static dataviz design.

Causes of Death for Children 5 - 14y

Smaller than a prison cell, more than 200,000 people live in extremely cramped conditions such as subdivided flats, cage homes and bed spaces while spending years waiting for public rental housing.

Life in Hong Kong’s shoebox housing, visually explained

Scientists plunged through category 4 Hurricane Ian in specialised aircraft on Sept. 28, collecting data on the storm’s inner workings

How hurricane hunters fly into the eye of a storm

Fireflies

The European Space Agency has just released version three of the Gaia mission’s data about the location of stars in the sky. With many different parameters defined for about 1.8 billion stars, this is the largest dataset with x and y positions for points I know of. And so it’s a great opportunity to show off some of the features of the deepscatter library I’ve written for exploring large collections.

Billion-point scatterplots

The world’s biggest beef producer says it has no tolerance for rainforest deforestation. Bloomberg’s analysis shows that’s not true—and Brazilian law isn’t helping.

How Big Beef Is Fueling the Amazon’s Destruction

While the story of Gallipoli has been told many times, never has it been told in such a rich and deeply immersive way. For the first time, the tragedy of Gallipoli is brought to life in a profoundly human way as two mothers imagine what it must have been like for other mothers, 100 years ago. 

Sons of Gallipoli 

A systemic approach to interactive visualization.

Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction

A visual exploration of today's international travel restrictions.

Travel Restrictions Today

Under corporate pressure, traditional farming practices in Asia are slowly being erased by new laws, but our region’s farmers are standing firm to protect local crop seeds. What exactly is happening in this fight for food, and how can we, as consumers, contribute?

The Fight for Food

Government-imposed internet shutdowns are on the rise globally, with devastating impacts on affected communities. Fighting back requires shining a light where governments impose the dark.

Internet Shutdowns | Jigsaw

How the average person plays The Game of Life with loaded dice

A Promise Broken | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | L'Atelier

Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles. Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute.

Drowning in Plastic

Investigation finds officials ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades.

The Inside Story of an American Warship Doomed by Its Own Navy

Scientists count carbon stored at the Amazon rainforest.

Amazon Jungle Lab

Documents which are classified under France’s “defence secrecy” regulations demonstrate that French weapons can be used to kill civilians in Yemen. - Made in France

Yemen Papers - Made in France

Thousands of videos posted look like unfiltered glimpses of life for Uyghurs, but taken together, the videos begin to reveal clues of a broader influence campaign orchestrated by the Chinese government.

‘We Are Very Free’: How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life in Xinjiang (Published 2021)

First comes the warning call – then the race to evacuate. Residents of a Gaza apartment block recall the frantic minutes before their homes to were turned to rubble

Countdown to the airstrike

Follow along with the NASA spacecraft and its 13 years of amazing discoveries in our immersive 3-D experience.

Here’s What Cassini Saw During Its Tour of Saturn

A game that gives you increasingly absurd trolley problems. Help humanity solve philosophy by solving all the trolley problems.

Absurd Trolley Problems

This chapter discusses further concepts that lie at the core of probability theory.

Compound Probability

Lee, 18, is making her Olympic debut after a challenging year. Her versatility debut after a challenging yea.