This visualisation was the outcome of my struggle to understand travel behaviour in London. The scale of London's transit system is daunting, and I came up with many complex approaches to the...
In an era of political, social, and economic upheaval in the Arab world, the –Politicians' Salaries and Income Inequality' visual represents a collaboration between the teams behind Visualizing...
The wolf in our living rooms. How much wolf is left in man's best friend?
This poster visualises the genetic relationships and diversification of dogs since their domestication from wolves.
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Color research in movies. We held a survey concerning colors presented in several films by means of calculating the amount of one or another color shade appearing during the whole movie. That's how...
Hubway is a bike sharing system providing over 1000 bikes and 100 bike racks available in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville. How many men and women cyclists are there? How old are they?...
Visualisation of all fallen and found meteorites between 1900 & 2000. The graphic gives a special view on meteorite findings by comparing time and longitude on a radial axis. This kind of...
Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork city, Ireland is home to Cosmos at the Castle. This award-winning exhibition, which opened in 2007, highlights recent discoveries of extreme life-forms on Earth...
With the fine weather on everyone's lips this summer, I decided to investigate if this really was the best summer ever. I sourced data from Met Eireann—the Irish meteorological service—and used...
This visualisation explores the phenomenon of global “brain drain” in science, with an eye towards understanding the reasons why researchers might choose to leave their countries of origin and...
These new city maps are formed by –connecting the dots' between stores of major brands, such as McDonalds, Starbucks, The Body Shop etc. By linking them and covering the area between them the image...
We visualize the Wiki revision history based on a History Flow, which is a visualization tool for a time-sequence of snapshots of a document in various stages of its creation. .
This plot empirically teases out subtle differences between the words "geek" and "nerd". Two axes represent the words in different dimensions, and plot other English words according to their...
Approximately 70,000 thoughts run through the human mind each day—a significantly larger number than the amount of breaths you take daily, averaging 21,600 to 24,000.
This sculptural data visualization generated from the forces of wind is an exploration in new media art centered around the concept of creating tangible artifacts from intangible forces.
Using data provided by the Hong Kong Observatory, the graphic visualises 23 years worth of rain in Hong Kong, starting from 1990. It shows the daily average rainfall as well as any issued tropical...
The complete story of the FiFa World Cup, beginning with the first edition of 1930 in Uruguay until the last of 2010 in South Africa. The analyzed data are used to display the goals scored, the...
In two centuries, the world has been dramatically transformed by a series of interconnected moments-the breakthroughs, creations, discoveries, innovations, revolutions and momentous human...
Using one very familiar profile (Her Majesty), this visualisation reveals the breakdown of the modern British army's active/volunteer/reservist personnel – in direct comparison to the Roman...
What are the chances of dying from firearms in America... versus lightning or a bee sting? When the asteroid DA14 sailed close to Earth in February 2013 (without impact), it inspired The...
Tadpoles in each color illustrate movement of one metric on two dimensions. The head of tadpole (arrow) points to the next position while the tail (small dot) indicates where it comes from. A...
We analysed one day of news on Monday 19th March 2012 from three British newspapers The Sun, The
Guardian and The Daily Mail. Using the raw information, we broke down the genres and allocated...
On the centenary of the start of the Tour de France cycling race this year, we thought about how we could show how the nationalities of the winners changed over time. We chose to adopt a "pinwheel"...
A set of icons that describes the stadiums used from 1993 to 2013 for the Champions League Final. The style, colors and shapes, is simplified to better describe the various features which...
Spotlight is a series of occasional think pieces harnessing the power of the Firefly Millward Brown global network. One of the strengths of Firefly is the ability to quickly call on the expertise...