Inspiration
A repository of data-driven visual stories from around the world, humanising complex issues with design and technology.
Inspiration of the Week
Illustration
Why your smartphone is causing you ‘text neck’ syndrome
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 w...
Illustration
What is permafrost and why might it be the climate change time bomb?
Forget about carbon emissions and carbon neutrality – if permafrost continues to melt at current rates, it could be game over for humanity.
Documentary
Interactive
NFB - Welcome to Pine Point
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...
Dataviz
3D
Das Pharma-Universum | The Pharma-Universe
Wenn die Pharmabranche ein Universum wäre, sähe es so aus.
3D
These 3D models take you inside the ruins of Ukraine's cultural treasures
Using laser scanners and drones, a team of volunteers travelled across Ukraine documenting the destruction of cultural sites. This is the data they collected.
Inspiration of the Week
Dataviz
The Trailblazers, The Risk Takers, The Ceiling Breakers, The Firsts
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.
Documentary
Interactive
ICP Infinity Awards
Since 1985, the International Center of Photography has recognized outstanding achievements in photography with its prestigious Infinity Awards.
Illustration
Dataviz
What’s the state of Southeast Asian sci-fi?
Western science fiction often depicts our collective culture in restrictive, erroneous ways. How about we let Asian sci-fi speak for itself?
Illustration
Dataviz
The China Ship
First chapter of “The China Ship” the story of the first globalization that connected Europe, the Americas and China through trade.
Dataviz
Hidden Fentanyl Is Driving a Fatal New Phase in US Opioid Epidemic
Florida’s Volusia County is racing to treat addiction while battling a wave of overdoses caused by tainted street drugs.
Interactive
What literature do we study from the 1990s?
The turn-of-the-century literary canon, using data from college syllabi.
Interactive
Exposing Indonesia's Coal Oligarchs
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 sourc...
Dataviz
Healthy throughout life
A healthy life for all people up into old age is a sign for high level of well-being in a country.
Dataviz
The Changing Face of the New Middle East
Extensive polling commissioned by the Tony Blair Institute that reveals the pragmatism, priorities and changing values of the people of the New Middle East.
Dataviz
The impact of other states’ abortion bans ripples across Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania abortion clinics are accommodating an influx of thousands of out-of-state patients denied abortion at home.
Illustration
How dams starve the Mekong River Delta of vital sediment
Data shows how the construction of dams impacts the river’s ecosystem and those those living on its banks.
Inspiration of the Month
Multimedia
The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone
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.
Inspiration of the Week
3D
Interactive
Eyes on Asteroids - NASA/JPL
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 Aste...
Interactive
Dataviz
OECD Going Digital Toolkit
How are countries going digital? The OECD’s Toolkit helps measure, compare and find policy solutions.
Dataviz
Flags of Inequality
A visualization of the rainbow flag to portray to what extent different dimensions of queer life are disregarded by state regulations.
Dataviz
In Crisis
Understanding the Endurance of Opioids & Combatting the Modern American Epidemic.
Illustration
Maps
The Threatened Tribe
Satellite images show how a lust for gold is damaging Brazil’s remote Amazon.
Dataviz
Thunder Roads
Visualizing the 2021 Formula One Racing Season.
Inspiration of the Week
Illustration
The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.