Zak Stone

Visualizing 100 Years Of Climate Data

This is what a century’s worth of climate data looks like when funneled into an interactive, color-coded map.

Charting The Ever-Rising Numbers Of American Obesity

This infographic shows what’s happened to our waistlines from 1995 to the present.

Take A Graphic Stroll Through Your Own Personal Meta Data

Buried in your thousands of old emails is a picture of you and your social network. A new tool called Immersion will show it to you.

A World Of Only Airports Is A Strikingly Different Place

A new mapping project uses only airport runways as geographic reference points, and gives a picture of a world where mobility isn’t available to everyone.

Mapping The Climate Change Deniers Making Our Laws

This map shows where climate-denying legislators come from–and how many weather-related disasters their states have faced in the past few years.

The Shameful Delays In Getting Help To Injured Veterans

Returning veterans are being forced to wait an incredibly long time to get benefits from the government. This graphic shows the scope of the problem.

Mesmerizing Maps Of A City’s Moving Buses

These maps of how fast the buses drive through Boston offer a beautiful look at the city’s transit system.

The U.S. Cities With The Best Parks

Y’all Vs. You All: Mapping The Linguistic Peculiarities Of American English

Visualizing The World’s Bike Sharing Programs

This Map Shines A Light On Every Single U.S. Drone Attack

Obama is making changes to how the U.S. drone program operates, but the past of the program is still shrouded in secrecy. This map helps clarify exactly what our killer technology is doing overseas.

The Women Of Congress, In Fabulous Watercolor Infographics

The sitting Congress has the most women of any in history. Artist Emily Nemens is capturing each of them in paint, and using their likenesses in graphics to show how far we still have to go to bring gender equality to Washington.

Watch These Glowing Time-Lapse Videos Of How People Use Public Transit

This Hilariously Enormous Infographic Shows That Sharks Don’t Kill You, You Kill Sharks

Contrasting the amount of people eaten by sharks annually with the number of sharks killed by humans in a single day puts the deadly ocean predator’s plight in a different context. It’s more sharks than you can possibly prepare yourself for.

See Humanity’s Effect On Earth In These Stunning Time-Lapse Satellite Photos

From growing Vegas to chopping down the Amazon, these Google photos of the last three decades of the Earth from space let you see both human ingenuity and our destructive power.

This Infographic Is The 21st Century’s Quickest Economics Class

Want to get a good sense of where businesses should be looking in the next 100 years? How about the small chunk of the planet that now holds half the population?

Striking Visions Of Our Flooded Future

These renderings of what the Statue of Liberty and the Jefferson Memorial will look like when sea levels rise give you an idea of how the world will change once the Arctic ice melts.

Where North Korea’s Maybe-Nuclear Missiles Could Land, Visualized

How worried should you be about North Korea? It probably depends on where you live, as these maps of the range of their various missiles show.

Watch Income Inequality In Real Time, As ExxonMobil’s CEO Out Earns You By A Lot

How much more money does a doctor make than a minimum wage earner? What about Kobe Bryant? This infographic shows the vast disparities in America’s wages.