Nick Routley is a creative director and writer at Visual Capitalist, covering a wide variety of topics.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) provides a steady indication of how inflation is affecting the economy. This big picture number is useful for policymakers and professionals in the financia...
For the last few months, Europe’s smoldering heatwave has been wreaking havoc across the region, causing destructive wildfires, severe droughts, and thousands of deaths.
A visual guide to human emotion
As every email introduction has reminded us in 2020, we’re living in “unprecedented times”.
Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy, employing nearly half of the private sector workforce.
At the end of the 20th century, supertall skyscrapers—buildings exceeding 300 meters in height—were still somewhat of a novelty in the world.
Según la Oficina del Censo de EE.UU., casi un tercio de la fuerza laboral de EE.UU., y la mitad de todos los "trabajadores de la información", son capaces de trabajar desde casa. Aunque e...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly one-third of the U.S. workforce, and half of all “information workers”, are able to work from home. Though the number of people working partial...
Visualizing what COVID-19 does to your body
From the bright lights of Times Square to the high-powered flood lights of a suburban Walmart, we expect our cities to give off a certain amount of light pollution. Even though our view o...
Every year, approximately eight million metric tons of plastic enters the world’s oceans – the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic every single minute.
Billions of people around the world grew up during the age of social media, and mankind is slowly marching toward a future where nearly everyone will be a digital native.
In the late 1970s, the fertile river delta to the north of Hong Kong’s territory was primarily agricultural land. Shenzhen was an unassuming town of 30,000 people – with only one function...
As it turns out, the hottest real estate market may be one we can’t see.
In a short amount of time, humans have changed the face of planet Earth.
