I picked the 24 cities based on a balancing act of the following criteria:
Cities with data-rich sources (some of the best historic data happens to be provided by international airports in...
Galileo's Impact On Modern Science
According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo probably bears more of the responsibility for the birth of modern science than anybody else, and Albert Einstein called...
The digits of Pi are assigned mass and placed uniformly around a circle. The simulation calculates the gravitational forces between all mass pairs and moves the masses accordingly. When masses...
Over the last year Private Eye has revealed the extent of ownership of British land by offshore companies, generally for tax avoidance and often to conceal dubious wealth. Now the Eye has...
The main idea of the project is to visualize statistical data, by translating it into an object's shape and behavior. The object in question is a spinning top, whose shape is generated out of...
When a company or government agency suffers a data breach, the number of records they say were lost are often preliminary estimates, whether they say so or not. Typically, the investigation has...
Overall, the US is relying less on coal for power. In 40 states, use of coal as a power source (as a share of all power sources) has dropped since 2004. Many of these states are increasingly...
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...
Concept and design of a full-page visualization on the topic of linguistic diversity for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. The visualization shows the 99 most common languages in the form of speech...
The internet and the importance of social networking in the digital age is a self-directed project which is designed to help you better understand how many people use the top Social media.
In December 2015, Paris hosts the COP21, the global climate change summit, where it is imperative for the world nations to come to an agreement regarding their commitment to reducing...
Over the past 40 years, we have changed from a world in which underweight prevalence was more than double that of obesity, to one in which more people are obese than underweight
Concept and design of a full-page visualization on the topic of economy for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. The visualization shows an interdependent network of 147 firms dominating the world...
Comic-book superheroes battle bad guys. But the two main comic publishers fight commercially in even tougher ways. Alongside the release of 2013's summer superhero movies, The Economist produced a...
Visualise the usage patterns of Indego, Philadelphia’s new bike share system. There are clear cyclical usage patterns for many of the Indego stations: Stations in residential areas tend to...
Russian modern artists' network visualization, made for Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, summer 2015. Size 15x5 meters. Data source: Garage Museum. Tools: Gephi, Adobe Illustrator
The Periodic Table of Storytelling provides an entry point into TVTropes. Much like Mendeleev's Periodic Table, this infographic organizes the fundamental building blocks of storytelling into...
We analyse the characters played by every winner of an –actor/actress in a leading role' Oscar since 1928 to work out the parts which most reliably lead to glory. Historic South American criminals,...
Presidential candidates like to talk about leadership, but whom do they follow? Bloomberg Politics scoured the Twitter accounts of Republicans eyeing the White House for clues about their...
The artwork shows on the left side the refugees who fled from their country of origin from 1980 to 2015, while on the right side the nations that have given asylum to refugees. The nations that...
In this piece we highlight long-held critiques of maps as truthful depictions of the world.
We place our trust in maps as truthful representations: as tools to guide us from A to B. But...
This infographic shows the first 100 historical figures in order of influence according to Pantheon, a Macro connections group of the MIT Media Lab of Boston project which took into account...
Starmap of Nobel Prize is designed to illustrate 113 years history of the Noble Prize. We put all Noble Prize winner's details into our data base, then use data mining and visualization technology...
Weather Browser is an interactive tool to visually look up and compare detailed weather data. Select a day and Weather Browser visualizes temperature, precipitation, wind speed, wind direction...