Living Data Visual explorations of open data
The Migration Routes

The Migration Routes

The real GPS trajectories of individually-tracked storks, harriers and cuckoos between Europe and Africa.

The Fault Lines

The Fault Lines

Over a century of major earthquakes replayed on a loop: their pulses trace, without needing to be told to, the boundaries of the tectonic plates.

What's Left

What's Left

Six emblematic species, a crowd of icons that shrinks or rebuilds, census after census.

The Flower Calendar

The Flower Calendar

When wild plants flower in France, and how that calendar shifts with warming temperatures.

Where France Has Burned

Where France Has Burned

Over fifty thousand forest fires recorded since 2006: a map replaying them, year by year, across the country.

The Grape Harvest Almanac

The Grape Harvest Almanac

Since 1354, French grape harvest dates have traced the history of climate in France, extreme droughts, summers that never came, vineyard crises, and record-breaking early harvests.

The Sky, Year by Year

The Sky, Year by Year

Since 2013, satellites have measured the artificial light emitted from the ground across France each year: what you can still hope to see in the night sky, region by region.

Tomorrow's Medical Desert

Tomorrow's Medical Desert

Thirty-four thousand communes, two maps in one: access to general practitioners today, and what it becomes without those about to retire.

The Monarch Migration

The Monarch Migration

A journey no single butterfly completes: the monarchs' relay between Mexico and Canada, month after month, drawn from nearly 400,000 observations.

Layers of Heritage

Layers of Heritage

Forty-five thousand French historic monuments, from their oldest known stone to today: a map that builds itself before your eyes, century after century.

Paris, Tree by Tree

Paris, Tree by Tree

194,000 of Paris's trees, mapped one by one: explore them by district, genus, or species name.

The Orbital Rush

The Orbital Rush

A swarm growing since 1957: the accelerating number of satellites in orbit around Earth, and who launched them.

The Pulse of the Earth

The Pulse of the Earth

Ten thousand years of volcanic eruptions replayed on a loop: the Earth has never stopped shaking, the ring of fire barely visible at rest.