Favourite Data Visualisations

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

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

Cédric Scherer

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

Australia’s Energy Production

Dan Oehm

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

Der Medaillenspiegel als Olympia-Fanschal

Der Spiegel

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

Searching for Birds

Nadieh Bremer

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

Supreme Court Justices

Tanya Shapiro

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

New York Times

List of industries where percentage of word coloured purple or green shows ratio of female and male employees.

Sex Ratio by Industry

Georgios Karamanis

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?

Information is Beautiful

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

1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak

John Snow

Screenshot of interactive scrolly tool to explore the depths of the seas.

The Deep Sea

Neal Agarwal

Screenshot of interactive tool to compare the sizes of different objects, from mountains to countries to planets to galaxies.

Scale of the Universe

Scale of the Universe (originally created by Cary Huang)

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

Warming Stripes

Ed Hawkins

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?

Benjamin Nowak

Hex map of Scotland showing risk of midges.

The Scottish Midge Forecast

Smidge

Map of California printed on a typewriter with letters representing elevation

Hand typed California

RJ Andrews

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

Cara Thompson

Artistic visualisation showing the number of people killed in protests in Iran.

Iran Protests

Federica Fragapane

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

World Population Flags

Ansgar Wolsing

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

USGS