Favourite Data Visualisations

A non-exhaustive gallery of some of my favourite data visualisations made by other people.

Small multiple radial waffle charts to show Democrat and Republican votes for 12 supreme court justices

Supreme Court Justices

World map with pie charts indicating the proportion of land that is for crops or grass, with pie charts scaled to area.

Crop land or grass land?

Chart with curved lines indicating the proportion of different countries with access to safe drinking water, split by urban and rural.

Basic access to safe drinking water

Screenshot of Based on a True True Story showing heatmap of how true different scenes in Bohemian Rhapsody film were.

Based on a True True Story?

Map of California printed on a typewriter with letters representing elevation

Hand typed California

Small multiple line chart with colours showing how far above or below a baseline each chart line is.

The Rise & Fall of Women’s College Basketball Dynasties

Minimalist heatmap with colour of bars indicating global temperature, with significantly more red i.e. hotter temperatures towards the right hand side.

Warming Stripes

Infographic of 2026 Winter Olympic medal count visualised as a Norwegian-style scarf.

Der Medaillenspiegel als Olympia-Fanschal

Screenshot of results from drawing an interactive line chart showing how far from reality a user is

You Draw It: How Family Income Predicts Children’s College Chances

Minimalist world map where each country is represented by it's flag, scaled to the size of the population

World Population Flags

Screenshot of Searching for Birds visual story showing the title, and beautiful illustrations of different types of birds.

Searching for Birds

Sloped bar chart showing decrease in fossil fuels and increase in renewables in Australia

Australia’s Energy Production

Stacked bar chart showing the number and range of colour of lego bricks produced over time, with a large increase in the last 20 years

Lego Colours

Black and white map of London in 1854 showing Cholera cases as bars at each address

1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak